Custom Quantity for Kitting

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dandersonMLT
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Custom Quantity for Kitting

Post by dandersonMLT » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:45 pm

Is it possible to allow the customer to set quantity for kitting?

Right now we are showing check box list for kit items.
The kit items are all setup with a quantity of 1.

If I wanted to give the customer the option of adding multiples of the same kit, how could I accomplish this?

Example right now we have
[X] My Kit Item ($10.00)

I want to have
[ 10 ] My Kit Item ($10.00 EA)

Thank you

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Re: Custom Quantity for Kitting

Post by mazhar » Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:53 am

What if you use a dropdown listing same kitted items with different predefined quantities? It wouldn't allow customer to provide a custom quantity but it can give a set of choices based on quantities.

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Re: Custom Quantity for Kitting

Post by dandersonMLT » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:22 am

mazhar wrote:What if you use a dropdown listing same kitted items with different predefined quantities? It wouldn't allow customer to provide a custom quantity but it can give a set of choices based on quantities.
This might work. I'm not sure there is a hard limit on the number of kits.
I will review with my customer to see what they want to do.

Ideally we'd just add a quantity box next to the kitting description.
Then either show a quantity on the order confirmation or loop and add the same kit multiple times.

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Re: Custom Quantity for Kitting

Post by dandersonMLT » Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:18 pm

Is there any way to do this without having to setup separate kit items for each quantity?

Customer wants to choose quantity of 0-10 for dozens of kit items. That would be a long of work to add 9 * (Number Of Kit Items).
Also, it would require editing that many any time they wanted to make a change.

Unless there is some way to do it in bulk.

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Re: Custom Quantity for Kitting

Post by dandersonMLT » Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:45 am

I ended up using a modified version of mazhar suggestion. I created a custom page that would automatically generate drop down list items for each quantity between 0 and user specified maximum

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