Through ChannelOnline you can create Bundles and set up Configurations with selectable options for your customers. This capability requires the proper Access Right in your profile.

Control Panel > Items Admin

Bundles

About Bundles

A bundle is a group of products included together and sold as a single unit

• The bundle’s price can be calculated by the bundle part number or by adding up its individual line items
• There is a ‘Bundles’ area in the Products tab
• Bundles can be created:
  • In Items Admin
  • Or on a Quote for one time use; or saved to the database for regular use
• Add to saved bundle action on the Product Page. From a product page you can select to add an item to a bundle by selecting the “Add to Bundle/Config” link in the Items Action box.

Configurations

Building Custom Options

Product Configurations is like a bundle plus the added flexibility of customer selectable items. They take time to setup, but done right, can help your customers make the right selections.

• Configuration Details will allow for HTML / rich text descriptions and the ability to add Tags for rules and filtering.

• Selectable Groups continues to be the place to create the groups for where selectable items will be placed. Additional minor page cleanup was performed.

• Selectable Options:

  • Paragraphs. Add text Paragraphs (see custom items) to configurations for non-item related information. This alleviates the need to create custom items for adding additional information to configurations that address things like disk imaging or process steps.

  • None Default Option. Selectable options now start with a None option, creating a custom item for a none placeholder is no longer required.

  • Config Item Search. More product information gets displayed in search results to help in choosing the correct item when building the configuration. This improves selection accurate and reduces time to make correct selections.

  • Multi-select Options. For each selectable group you can determine to either stick with the single selection or select “Allow multiple option names per group to be selected for each option.“ Meaning that each selectable option in the group could be selected. This reduces the need for creating custom items for each different combination of selectable items.

  • Configurations can show images for selectable option items on the product page, internally and on the store, when the Show detail button is selected. Display product description and specifications for configuration items in a lightbox when clicking on a selectable item description (users will remain on the configuration page).

  • Page saving and editing was refactored to eliminate conflicts that could happen with accidentally opening multiple add item windows or on copy paste actions.

• Add to config action on the Product Page. From a product page you can select to add an item to a configuration by selecting the “Add to Bundle/Config” link in the Items Action box.