Customisable products

[jpincas]

Summary of a team discussion on 16/7/2020

• for many scenarios, variant groups can capture product variability quite well
• but for custom made products that are not stocked, it would be a pain in the arse to create thousands of variations capturing the full variability
• so we plan to have 'customisable products'
• these would be non-stockable by definition
• we would try to reuse the 'custom attributes' we already have as the axes of customisation
• we would have to work out rules on how to related customisation axes to prices - a bit like complex shipping rules
• we would have to have UI to set these rules up in the admin panel (on custom attributes)
• we would have to have UI in the admin panel to attach these axes of customisation to products
• we would have to have UI in the commerce app to allow customers to specify these cusomisations
• we would have to stamp the customisations, as well as the custom price, into the cart line - either as a custom line memo, or perhaps we just add another field to cart lines to capture customisation

[jpincas]

Allan:

I'm not sure these are non-stockable by definition. Think of something that is customised by modifying a base product. Eg. a football shirt that can have a name printed on the back, a mug that can have a custom message printed on it etc. You still have a set number of the base product and may wish to track the stock of those.