This will be needed for adding custom orders to your customer's cart. Ensure that your Private App has API Permissions to "read_products" and "write products".In our custom product template, we output this by looping through the variants and generating the grid.To Integrate with Shopify (embed the widget/controls and POST custom orders into your customer's Shopify cart) you will first need to set up a Private app and provide settings to your storefront in Solidworks Sell with the help of your Solidworks Sell contact. Next, we need to add a grid containing the flavors available to choose from. We add two data attributes to the parent div here, one to store the variant ID of the master box, and another to keep track of how many slots are filled at any given time (the javascript that follows below handles this). In this example we want 8 slots.Įach slot will be populated when a flavor is clicked. Next, we want to create a dedicated product template for this.įirst, we need to create a number of placeholder slots on the page so the user can choose the flavors they want to go into the box. The box variant does not need any of these attributes, simply the inventory as it relates to the particular store’s inventory for the particular box product. Each chocolate flavor is added in the typical way, with the inventory price, SKU etc. We add the variants based around their flavor values, and we also add the master box itself as the first variant (we will see the reason for this next). Within that, we move on to the key to this whole solution: variants. Our approach was to create a product which we’ll call “Box of Chocolates”. To use the example of a store that sells boxes of chocolates, we need to somehow create a master product for the box, and within that also have individual products for each chocolate flavor.
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We found a way to leverage this system into a full “build a box” product mechanism. This way it can be built from the ground up to only contain exactly the specific features we need.Īs we touched on above, Shopify’s core functionality gets us halfway there with product variants. While that is a perfectly valid approach to solving this problem, we wanted to see if we could find a way to do this via creative usage of the Shopify core only. This has been discussed in several threads in the Shopify forum, and the general advice within said threads is to use a third-party app such as the Bold Product Builder. You can, of course, create a master product and assign numerous variants within that for variations of particular properties such as size or color, but there is no native way to assign what we need here: essentially a parent-child relationship between the master product and each of its component flavor products. Here’s the catch, Shopify does not provide any immediately obvious way to construct such a… wait for it. Here’s a delicious example, you might have a client that sells boxes of chocolates, and each box can be mixed and matched to form a set number of flavors/varieties of chocolates, so that the customer can select exactly what they want and effectively “build” their box before adding it to the cart and purchasing it. It’s exactly what it sounds like, a composite product that is comprised of a number of other existing individual products. A type of product we refer to as a “build a box”. A Halloween classic, and surprisingly a relatively common business need, and one we have been asked to build on multiple occasions in Shopify. A monster composite monster comprised of a number of parts from many different people. Frankenstein as his monster came to life.
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