Business and examples of configurable products (configurableproduct)

1. What is a configurable product?

A configurable product is a customer chooses a variety of configurations or components contained in the main product to form a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11168.html "> portfolio" of a similar product package,
But each product is implied within the main product, not independent.
When purchased, the final combination of the main product is priced and shipped.

Configurable products also known as personalized configuration products, custom products, and so on.
English name: Configurable Product, Customize buy, etc.

such as buying a computer, allowing customers to DIY online, within the specified range of their own choice of configuration, such as the CPU can choose some of Intel or AMD models. The final combination of a DIY pc, shipping is also in accordance with the entire PC shipments.

2. Differences between configurable products and other types of products

In addition to ordinary products, more complex product types are roughly the following:

Configurable Products: described above. Specification or variant: Product specification, there are several other names:


1 Product variant product VARIATIONS;2 product options,


are all expressions of the same class of concepts. Are the attributes of a specified product that affect price and inventory, such as color, size, and so on, which are required for customers to purchase. Package: Product Package. The product package refers to the product sales portfolio defined by the merchant, bundled with sales. Product Mix Promotion: Products Dynamic Package (the author's own name, unconventional). Generally refers to the definition of promotional methods,


Select the specified number of products within the specified product range, you can enjoy the discount, this is not a cured product type, but here incidentally,


to differentiate.

What is the difference between a configurable product and other products?

external configuration and its own attributes of the difference: configurable products from a number of product combinations, it is generally a dynamic body. or even if


There is a body, but the other combinations are separate products, not the properties of the subject itself. The product specification or variant is its own property, such as color, size and so on. Different SKUs: The SKU for the configurable product is dynamic, or only one SKU is set for the dynamic principal (this is considered the actual design). But product variants have a SKU for each variant. Different from the package: the product package is a business bundle that takes up a separate inventory of the product as a new product, but the configurable product does not occupy the inventory, which is the component (i.e. the product) below it. Other interfaces, purchases, and management differences are not explained.

The "note" Magento is defined as a variant of the configurable product, which is not the same as a common definition, please note the distinction.

3. An overview of the purchase process for configurable products online electronic product sales, common to personal PC personalized configuration purchase. Customers choose a dynamic product that needs to be purchased through a product configurator. The customer chooses for each component in the Configurator, or it can be used directly by default. Components are divided into both required and optional components. Non-default components may cause changes to the price of the dynamic product. When the customer completes the configuration component selection, the preview page is generated, and the dynamic product is added to the shopping cart when satisfied (note is as


a product to buy instead of each component independently for one product. Customers in the shopping cart, click to edit the dynamic product, you can go back to the configuration process reconfiguration.

Here are two practical examples of the purchase process for the reader's reference.

4. Examples of configurable products (Dell and HP)

The above mentioned PC DIY, the following two examples are about this kind of business. See below for links and screenshots:

4.1 dell.com

Link: DELL PC DIY

Dell has designed a "personalized configuration" process that is presented in the form of a tab. (See figure (1)) The optional name of the current step and the additional charges and reductions (the default does not increase the amount). (See figure (2)) You can press "continue to configure" or click on the following component icons to jump directly to the specified step selection. (See figure (3)) When all configurations are selected, a combined product (Dell called an order) is eventually added to the cart, as shown below

4.2 hp.com

Links: HP Customize & Buy
Entrance：

Personalized Configuration process:

In addition to the personalized configuration process similar to Dell, HP has its own features:

Component classification management, divided into three categories: RS (components), accessories (attachment), Printer (printer) RS (components): The dynamic product body required components, such as CPU, motherboard, etc., If missing is not a functioning product. Accessories (Accessories): headphones, mouse, etc., optional external equipment. Printer (printer): A printer train, that is because it is one of HP's main business, highlighting processing.

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