configurable products store example?

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Hi,

I am about to start on a project for which I will need to create an
online store front. The store is to sell "configurable products".
I.e. the end product is custom configured by the user and we ship as
ordered. There are only a few base product product types, but each
base product has around 100 or so configurations, and the customer
needs to be able to easily assemble what they want. I.e. there are
several colors/finishes and other options per product.

I have looked through the docs, but I am new to Satchmo and could not
find the right information or examples. I was hoping that someone
could give me some pointers or push me in the right direction.

Will this project be a good match for Satchmo? Django is my framework
of choice and I have been wanting to give Satchmo a try for awhile
now, however I do not want to make a poor choice just because I want
to try out Satchmo. Other than that I am rather excited to finally
have a reason to work with Satchmo (if it is a good fit).

Can anyone point me towards some Satchmo sites selling configurable
products that I could look at? I saw the "Store Gallery" but the ones
I saw were not selling configurable products. Feel free to send a
link directly to me instead of the list for privacy (I think google
groups will show my email right?).

Thanks

[Tomas Neme]

The right examples:

http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/tutorial1.html

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Tomas,

I sent this email and it got delayed in the moderation queue for
awhile. However, thanks for the link.

Is it possible to define requirements for configurable product
options? I.e. using the tutorial example would it be possible to
allow brown hats but require that brown hats were large? Or that
small hats could not be red?

Thanks.

[Tomas Neme]

There's a very easy way to configure the possible combinations from
the ConfigurableProduct admin. It's called something like "variation
selector" or some such name, and you get a double-entry matrix where
you can mark the options that can go together

[Stuart Laughlin]

With the number of configurations you mention (i.e. hundreds) I recommend you also look at custom products. Configurable products are great, but they require that you generate and store in your database an "actualized" SKU for each combination you're selling. Custom products, on the other hand, are actualized by the customer at order time.

The problem you may run into with configurable products comes when you have lots of products with lots of options. You can end up with many thousands of options, and then you end up having to tweak the admin so that it will "keep up" with so much data. While the satchmo admin is perfectly capable of dealing with many thousands of SKUs with some work on your part tweaking it, it's not geared for that kind of load ootb.

Hope that helps,

--Stuart

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