Adding shirts and jackets to the store

[john booth]

i have a customer who wants to add shirts and jackets to their store. For each size/gender, i have a quantity that has to be deducted from inventory.

My original thought would be to create a product for each option.  For example, the jackets would have 12 products. 2 for each gender x 6 for each size.is there a way to create a single product that has selectors to pick gender, size, and quantity.  And have it deduct from the appropriate inventory?

[couch]

Unfortunately, you're right. For inventory to work, you need a product per item/size/color/style which really multiplies the workload. And, then product selection for the customer is not friendly, you don't pick an item (jacket) and then select properties (color/size/etc)

I have seen some customers do some trick things to make it work better for fashon items, but they are customizations that are not provided by XMPie.

[Naomi Radford]

John,

I realize this is dated so you may already have this figured out, but an easy workaround for this is using the "kit" product available on uStore. For your example, you will have two kits: Men's Jacket, Women's Jacket. Then the components of the kits will be the sizes offered for each. You will set up separate components for the men's and the women's sizes with the appropriate skus and attach them to the relevant parents. We include product images on the kit parent and use an image with the size as the image for each of the children. On the front end, it looks like a sinlge item, but on the backend, there is a parent plus size children for each product and the inventory ties to the children. Screenshot of the whole page is included, but irl, you would only see the top of the page and the right side would scroll.

- Naomi