Rules

overview the additional option rules feature allows administrators to control the availability of additional options based on predefined conditions and product configurations these rules help prevent customers from selecting incompatible, unsupported, or non printable option combinations during the ordering process by defining option rules, administrators can automatically show, hide, enable, or restrict specific additional options based on selected product attributes, quantities, or other option values purpose the purpose of this feature is to ensure that customers can only select valid and production ready option combinations, reducing order errors and simplifying the ordering experience additional option rules help administrators prevent incompatible option combinations from being selected restrict options based on quantity, product specifications, or selected attributes ensure only printable and producible combinations are available reduce manual order corrections and production issues improve the overall customer ordering experience how rules work example 1 quantity based printing restrictions a print shop may offer both digital print and block print options for small quantity orders however, for larger quantities, only block print may be suitable for production using additional option rules, the system can automatically hide the digital print option when the order quantity exceeds a defined limit, ensuring customers select only valid printing methods example 2 material and finish compatibility for business cards printed on 410 gsm paper , a glossy finish may not be supported by the production process in this case, an additional option rule can be configured to automatically hide the glossy finish option whenever the customer selects 410 gsm paper , preventing the selection of an unsupported combination by implementing these rules, businesses can eliminate invalid product configurations and ensure that only feasible options are presented to customers configuration add option rules set additional option rules to restrict the product options on your storefront by clicking on the ‘ +add ’ button to add a new rule rule name enter a rule name this is for the reference of admin this name helps manage the rules on the admin side select rule select any rule based on the following options regular products size quantity based you can choose only the options based on size and quantity at times, it is allowed to choose only one option in each field of size and quantity however, you can tick multiple options under additional options size additional option based this combines both size and additional options to create combinations create a combination of one size and multiple additional options additional based option this allows the creation of rules only based on additional options size quantity additional option based this will allow you to easily create option rules with the combination of size, quantity, and additional options additional option based size hide this allows you to create rules to hide the product size based on the selection of additional options for dynamic size products size (height x width) quantity based for the options selected in parameter & quantity, the options selected under additional options will be hidden on the storefront size additional option based this option is a combination of both parameter and additional option additional options based this will appear if there are additional options on the dynamic size products size quantity additional option based this will allow you to easily create option rules with the combination of prameter, quantity, and additional options select the additional options rule and then select the options falling in the category additional options next, tick the additional options, which will be hidden on the selection of previous fields thus, the system will hide certain additional option attributes as entered by you and save them from wrong orders apart from the additional option attributes, there is a ‘select option/other’ option made available while creating the rules this will be helpful when the customer has not selected any option from the additional option the ‘select option/other’ option will be useful for the add quote screen this rule will be applicable when a customer chooses the other option from the additional option dropdown and define their custom option