"Mixed Case" Product Kit w/Variable Component Count?

[ckirklen]

I'm trying to model a "mixed case" of a product.

The product is a case of 100 packets.

Packets can be one of several flavors (butter, chocolate, cheese, etc.). We currently handle "standard" cases consisting of all 100 packets of the same flavor as a product with variants (variant being the flavor of all 100 packets in the case).

For the "mixed case", we need to allow the customer to pick the number of packets of each flavor in their mixed case (e.g, 20 butter, 35 chocolate, 45 cheese), so that the sum total is 100 packets.

How can i model this in the AC catalog? Tried kitting and even creating a template, but unable to figure out how to let the user specify the count of each of a dozen possible flavors.

Thanks in advance for direction!

[AbleMods]

Able kitting is the closest possible option, but it's not going to let you control it to that level of detail.

The only other option would be to customize the product page to limit the quantities involved. I did something similar for a client a while back that involved 3 flavor choices. The catch was certain products required a minimum number of flavors to be chosen (checkboxes), so I had to add some validation to control the shopper experience better.

In your situation, I think Able might override the kit component quantities when it recalculates the basket. That makes it more challenging to manipulate them on the product page so they stay all the way through checkout.