However, this resolution in incomplete in my opinion. I’m a long time internet entrepreneur, and after about 10 years selling products online, I can tell you that this feature is INCREDIBLY important.
Right now, if I was selling single items, magento would be perfect, but items with multiple attributes, such as mine, I can’t even consider magento because it’s lacking an attributes/ options template.
For instance, my products fall into groups because of the options available. I have, say 20 products that all have the same basic options.
Size
Color
Trim
If I had to add attributes one by one, with over 20 products, this process becomes EXCEEDINGLY time consuming and wasteful. The quicker I can get my product online, the quicker it can get crawled by the SE’s, and I can promote it and sell it. Also, there is the manpower involved. If I’m doing this alone, not a big cost, but I’d never get it done. If I have employees entering products, they would not be working on orders, they’d be working on entering product options and not selling the products. I could spend a day on one product alone.
Now, in my current e-commerce engine, I can create attribute/options templates, that I can apply to a product. Once applied, I can then modify those attributes if they vary slightly.
Let’s say I create an attribute template like this:
Size
-Small
-Medium
-Large
-XLarge (Add 5.00)
-XXLarge (Add 5.00)
Color
-Black
-White
-Grey
-Red
-Green (Add 3.00)
-Purple (Add 5.00)
Trim
-NONE
-White
-Black
-Silver
-Gold (Add 5.00)
-Gunmetal (Add 10.00)
Now, with my shirts, I can create a “Billy Baldwin I’m Late to the Game” shirt that has all these option. Instead of entering them one by one, I go to a drop down menu of templates, apply it, and blammo, I’m done. All the options and price markups are done.
Now, I add a “Alec Baldwin Drunk Like Your Mother” shirt, and it has “almost” the same options. As the above scenario points out, I add the product, pick this template from a drop down, and it applies the template.
After applying the template, I remove
Size
-Small
Then I remove
Color
-Purple
BUT edit
Color
- Green (Add 3.00) and I change it to
- Green “no upcharge’
Then I edit
Trim
and ADD
- Multi (Add 15.00)
Now I did not have add each and every single one of those attributes all over again, and I could edit the ones that where slightly different. This is a humongous advantage and very efficient. Even in my accounting software, I can add and delete options. You don’t need a SKU for each and every one.
Further. When I pair these items with say PANTS, and each pant has attributes as well, my current system shows the kitted items and each items attributes separately. Like this.
Tshirt
Size
Color
Trim
Pants
Size
Color
Trim
After testing out magento for awhile, I would love to move to this platform, and support it as well. But these are VERY important features that I or any other multi-attribute product merchant just cannot do without.
Thank you for taking this into consideration. I hope the community understand the need for this feature.
