AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Most of the products we will be selling have variants, but no add to basket button displays until the variant choices are made. Wondering if there could be a way to have a default variant chosen. Kind of like how you have bundles and kits setup, to do so.

I think it would be just visually more clear that you have choices and you can add to cart. I think being able to have selected default variants would be a great resolve.

This has been brought a few times, but I don't know is if it's getting fixed in the next release.

I switched to product templates because they render right away and allow a default value. But they won't swap the sku like variants do though, so a few of my products still use variants.

Hope they fix it though. Would also be nice if the SKU displayed were updated as well. I don't think it changes as the variant selection is made.

So, here is a site from the ablecommerce directory of ablecommerce sites they are selling a T-shirt, has variants of size, and there is a default size chosen and the buy button is up.

http://www.diamondbacktactical.com/T-Sh ... 33C97.aspx

I can't imagine they would have kitted all the separate size shirts and then hid the individual shirts from searches. That would be a hell of a work around.

Hmmm hard to tell. There's no variation for color.

I could do what they've done with a product template. The question is what they're getting on the back end. Is it a different SKU or just that sku with a product option of size?

There's no doubt you could modify the code to accomplish it now. I would if I had the time. But I want to wait for the AC7 updates to come out.

That is 5.5 version of Able that they are using. We are able to do things like that in it- all the options always showed. And you we able to have kitted items where the customer didn't have to purchase one of the items- as AC7 stands now, you can't do that. Here's a link on our site that has both options and kits- the size and color are the options, the custom name and number are a kit.
http://www.anythingxtreme.com/DYE-C7-Pa ... C2159.aspx