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    Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

    I have searched around and the only "Kit Maker" I can find is from wieland. We have many packages/kits on our site which combine 2, 3 or 4 products into a package for people to order. All of our products have several attributes. Right now these packages are hard coded with the attributes for each product. So miva views the package as a separate product.

    We are looking at using VC Inventory Manager, but the problem is the packages. They are seperate products from their components right now. And if we used Kit Maker it does not allow inventory tracking of the components. Is there any Kit module that will work with inventory tracking?

    Or is there a better way that I should be setting up the products? Please help.
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    Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

    You could assign them to a category and by using VK category page template code it that all items get added to the basket by one button click. All you have to do is add still some code for the inventory tracking so they can't be added to the basket when one of them is sold out.

    FYI I did exactly this for one store :D

    Happy Holidays!!!
    Andreas Toman
    PCINET, LLC

    Miva Merchant Design, Development, Integration & Support
    We built over 200 Miva Merchant stores!
    Miva shopping cart design & integration service and see our Portfolio!


    e-mail: [email protected]
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    LinkedIn: Andreas Toman
    phone: (786) 250-2056 (Miami, FL)

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      #3
      Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

      Here is a link to one of our packages to review.
      http://www.greekave.com/Merchant2/me...de=22035-23035

      And we are not worried about people adding items that aren't "in-stock". Most of our items we don't carry stock in. We order them as they are needed by customers.

      I am not sure how this would work. Can you maybe send me a link to the store you did this for so I can see how it works in the set up of their store.
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        #4
        Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

        Here you go:

        http://www.yogafit.com/Merchant2/mer...011114-2-KD_PN

        The Two Day Package are actually 3 items.

        FYI There is some more functionality then what you need (dependency of package items). You can't remove one without removing all.
        Andreas Toman
        PCINET, LLC

        Miva Merchant Design, Development, Integration & Support
        We built over 200 Miva Merchant stores!
        Miva shopping cart design & integration service and see our Portfolio!


        e-mail: [email protected]
        web: www.pcinet.com
        LinkedIn: Andreas Toman
        phone: (786) 250-2056 (Miami, FL)

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          #5
          Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

          I don't know if you checked out the link I had above. How does this work with the product attributes?
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            #6
            Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

            Are you referring to the attributes? You can add them too. Or do you mean tracking by attribute?
            Andreas Toman
            PCINET, LLC

            Miva Merchant Design, Development, Integration & Support
            We built over 200 Miva Merchant stores!
            Miva shopping cart design & integration service and see our Portfolio!


            e-mail: [email protected]
            web: www.pcinet.com
            LinkedIn: Andreas Toman
            phone: (786) 250-2056 (Miami, FL)

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              #7
              Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

              Can you still track inventory to the attribute level with VC's Inventory Manager by setting up products this way?
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                #8
                Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                This brings up a similar question that I have. We sell wine by the case and I'd like to set up a customer selectable mixed case. We have a number of pre-set mixes available but I want something that presents a list of inventory with radio buttons that will limit to 12 choices and add them to a custom mix. Is this doable in Miva 4?

                Please forgive this question if it's an easy one... I'm very new to this software and I'm doing quite a lot of "seat of the pants" stuff here...

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                  #9
                  Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                  There is a kit module by Bill Weiland which you could use for this purpose.
                  Andreas Toman
                  PCINET, LLC

                  Miva Merchant Design, Development, Integration & Support
                  We built over 200 Miva Merchant stores!
                  Miva shopping cart design & integration service and see our Portfolio!


                  e-mail: [email protected]
                  web: www.pcinet.com
                  LinkedIn: Andreas Toman
                  phone: (786) 250-2056 (Miami, FL)

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                    #10
                    Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                    I checked into that...it appears to be limited to prebuilt kits (which I've already made as individual products.) I'd like to offer like 20 (identically priced) products and enable the customer to pick any 12 (but only 12) to include in the custom kit.

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                      #11
                      Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                      The you would have to recreate the products as attributes of a main product. This makes it hard for inventory tracking but would work on the site.
                      Andreas Toman
                      PCINET, LLC

                      Miva Merchant Design, Development, Integration & Support
                      We built over 200 Miva Merchant stores!
                      Miva shopping cart design & integration service and see our Portfolio!


                      e-mail: [email protected]
                      web: www.pcinet.com
                      LinkedIn: Andreas Toman
                      phone: (786) 250-2056 (Miami, FL)

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                        #12
                        Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                        Yeah... that's what I started to work on... but can the attributes be dynamically chosen and tabulated? I'm not as concerned with Inventory tracking for this element.

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                          #13
                          Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                          Here is a link to a thread that has information that might help you out. Second post in the thread.

                          http://extranet.miva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2754

                          Kent Multer developed a module that may work for you. He posted a link to a site he did this for. His module would even allow you to offer say a 3, 6, or 12 pack of bottles.
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                            #14
                            Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                            Thanks so much... sorry for hijacking the thread :-)

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                              #15
                              Re: Building Kits & Tracking Inventory??

                              No Problem. I would suggest sending a PM to Kent as that is a very old thread that hasn't been replied to in a while.
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