Multiple Selection Drop Down

[Owen Drumm]

Is there a way that a customer can select more that one choice of a product at a time. For instance a product that has four flavours and the customer wants to choose say chocolate and strawberry without having to put chocolate in the basket first then come back and put strawberry in?

[Kai]

maybe u want to consider the use of check box?

[Jan]

Norman Rouxel has a product that lets you create a grid of products and choices, the user can then just say how many of each one they want. It is really clever.

See http://www.rouxel.cwc.net/actinicstuff.html for more details, it is NorMatrix.

Regards,

[Owen Drumm]

I really need something that would work with a drop down menu as there are over a thousand products and most of them have choices wether it be flavour size or whatever that doesn't affect the price

[NormanRouxel]

NorMatrix, as Jan mentioned is designed to allow you to create a matrix of quantity boxes in a 2D table for same-priced items that come in lots of combinations. E.g. if you were selling Jelly Babies and they came in shapes Boy, Girl, Perl Programmer (a wierd half-breed), and also in Colours, Red, Green, Yellow. Then you could have a matrix like:-


Colour/Type Boy Girl Perl

Red 0 0 0
Green 0 0 0
Yellow 0 0 0


(apologies for the layout - it's the forum)

And now all the customer has to do is to put in how many they want in each combination and hit a single Buy button.

Norman

[jeff p]

Norman...

Do all products in the matrix need to be the same price? In the case, say of T-shirts, the manufacturers charge more for light colors than white shirts and more for dark than light. Also, the oversizes are additional. Any way to accomodate that in the matrix?

JeffP

[NormanRouxel]

Re T-Shirts. Afraid not. All the items in the matrix have to be the same price. You'd have to make another product for each higher price break.

Norman

[NormanRouxel]

I just found a live demo of this that I'd forgotten about. See http://www.drillpine.biz/aura/acatalog/Shirt_Sizes_Demo.html for it.

Norman