Products assembled into sets

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   Is there a way to assemble individual parts into different sets? 

For a simple example, lets say I have 5 apples, 5 oranges and 5 peaches
and I want to sell fruit baskets.

In real life I can take my pile of fruit and sell them in different combinations
such as (set 1) 3 apples 3 oranges and 2 peaches or (set 2) 2 apples,
3 oranges and 4 peaches.  Etc..

Is there a way to make PC make the sets from a defined inventory 
(5 apples, 5 oranges and 5 peaches) like a person can?

I have a BTO version and can not figure out how to do this. (if it does)
I want PC to track the inventory of 5 apples, 5 oranges, and 5 peaches 
and NOT the inventory of sets that are made from the fruit.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Dayv3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-June-2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dayv3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Products assembled into sets Posted: 22-January-2013 at 4:03am
	Is there a way to assemble individual parts into different sets? For a simple example, lets say I have 5 apples, 5 oranges and 5 peaches and I want to sell fruit baskets. In real life I can take my pile of fruit and sell them in different combinations such as (set 1) 3 apples 3 oranges and 2 peaches or (set 2) 2 apples, 3 oranges and 4 peaches. Etc.. Is there a way to make PC make the sets from a defined inventory (5 apples, 5 oranges and 5 peaches) like a person can? I have a BTO version and can not figure out how to do this. (if it does) I want PC to track the inventory of 5 apples, 5 oranges, and 5 peaches and NOT the inventory of sets that are made from the fruit. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-January-2013 at 12:51am
	Hi @Davy3, I see the dilemma. I was under the impression that if a BTO product were built from standard products (as opposed to BTO component options), the inventory on the standard products a user selects in their build of the BTO product would tick inventory off of those component products. I just ran a test, and this does not appear to be the case. I set up a BTO "Gift Basket" products with the option to select by check box with qty configured standard products: Apples, Oranges & Peaches. I set the BTO parent/shell product to disregard stock, but gave stock to the component products which were not set to disregard stock. When I placed the order, stock was not reduced from the component products. This doesn't seem to make any sense to me. Perhaps I'm missing something. It would seem that configurable BTO products would not have any use for inventory themselves. If they are build of component products (apples, oranges, peaches), that's where the inventory should be tracked by definition of BTO. If I set the parent/shell BTO product not to disregard stock, then it can't be ordered ... so that option doesn't appear to cause stock not to be ticked off against the component products. Hamish, Matt ... am I missing something here? If I'm not, this should not be a difficult issue to customize ... we're just probably two weeks out before we could take it up.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-January-2013 at 12:56am
	Sorry: here's a link to this test: http://pc46b-otb-net.3060.wmsmerchantservices.com/productcart/pc/configurePrd.asp?idProduct=145

Dayv3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-June-2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dayv3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-January-2013 at 1:36am
	I spent a bunch of time playing with this before I posted. I too was scratching my head and saying that this just can not be right being that sets are a real world application for the software to support. To me, it would seem that it would work this way I but, I guess not. Hopefully EI will add or correct this in a future update. I too will wait for Hamish or Matt, or others, to chime in. Dave Edited by Dayv3 - 23-January-2013 at 1:48am

Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24-January-2013 at 3:40am
	Why not use BTO items instead of standard products? Though it definitely seems like the stock should subtract for standard products as well.

Dayv3 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-June-2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dayv3 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24-January-2013 at 10:13pm
	It would seem that you would want to be able to sell the same products as a standard product and as a set (a fruit basket) at the same time. That way, using my example, a customer can buy just an apple, (a standard product) or a fruit basket (a BTO item) that is made from a combination of the three fruits (apples, oranges and peaches). The database? It will be tracking the inventory of the fruit independent of how it was sold. The discrete fruit (a standard product) will have inventory in the database and the fruit baskets will not have any inventory because they are made from the discrete fruit. Edited by Dayv3 - 24-January-2013 at 10:43pm

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24-January-2013 at 10:44pm
	Hi Dave, I'm with you. Frankly, I'm a bit baffled that it doesn't work this way as that would make complete sense with the whole concept of BTO -- to be able to build a product (say a computer or a gift basket) assembled from other component products (say, this or that hard drive or this or that fruit). You can do this in QuickBooks, for example, and it would tick off the inventory of the component products. I don't expect this would be difficult for PC to be adjusted for this -- I almost kinda wonder if it was intended to do and this is just an oversight. Would be real nice if we could get some EI feedback on this.

Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-January-2013 at 12:11am
	It looks like this issue has been resolved in 4.6b. I created a BTO Item, a Standard Item, and added both to a BTO Product. I selected each option and, upon completing the order, 1 unit was subtracted from the BTO item's stock, and one from the standard product's stock. Here's the BTO Product page: http://www.liftchair.co/configurePrd.asp?idproduct=29 and this is the standard product: http://www.liftchair.co/Test-Standard-Option-34p31.htm If you place an order for the BTO product and select the standard product option, you can go and see that the stock has been decreased, just as it is with the BTO item. I may be mistaken here, but I believe this issue has been resolved in 4.6b

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-January-2013 at 2:35am
	Thanks for this test, Brett. Someone's mistaken somewhere, and I hope it's me! The demo site I tested on is PC 4.6b, as the first bit of the URL indicates. I'd like to invite you to log into that control panel and compare the configuration. Hopefully I'm just being daft (I have my smart days and my not so smart days, right?). If you find that the CP settings are the same, but we're getting different results, that will be interesting. I'll PM you the credentials.

Brett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22-April-2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brett Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-January-2013 at 3:13am
	Sounds good Sean. I believe mine is a clean 4.6b installation, so it's definitely odd that we're seeing different results. Maybe it's due to my test BTO product including both a Standard Product and a BTO Item as options.