Best seller report does not include configurable products

[ioweb-gr]

Preconditions (*)

1. 2.4.3-p1

Steps to reproduce (*)

1. Try to order a few configurable items in Magento 2
2. Refresh statistics for the best seller report
3. Execute this query in the database

   
   select *
   from catalog_product_entity product
        left join sales_bestsellers_aggregated_daily
                  on product.entity_id = sales_bestsellers_aggregated_daily.product_id
   where product.type_id = 'configurable' and sales_bestsellers_aggregated_daily.id is not null;

You will notice no configurables are being added in the best seller table. 
While this may be desirable as only real products are being sold (in this case the variations), it actually causes issues in presenting the best sellers on the frontend. Normally for configurable products the variations are set to "Not Visible Individually". When trying to load the best sellers collection you will notice that only the children are loaded which are not visible. 

In an e-shop selling only shoes for example, all the products that are visible in the catalog will be configurable. Thus, it's impossible to use the best sellers report to present those configurable products in the frontend. 

### Expected result (*)
<!--- Tell us what do you expect to happen. -->
1. The best seller report tables should also list the configurable products 

### Actual result (*)
<!--- Tell us what happened instead. Include error messages and issues. -->
1. The best seller report tables are always listing only simple products

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[engcom-November]

Hi @ioweb-gr , Thank you for reporting and collaboration. Verified this on Magento 2.4-develop branch Bestsellers Report includes the product name, price, and quantity ordered in both UI and DB table. Since configurable products can be ordered with simple product configurations only and cant be ordered alone, simple products are displayed in both UI and DB . Please refer the magento docs for the same. Adding Configurable product can be considered as feature request but not bug. Please provide your inputs on this.

Thank you.

[ioweb-gr]

From a technical scope I would agree this is a missing functionality that should be added.

From a user's point of view though, this is something that's not working correctly.

The user expects to see which products he sold most.

My customer's complaint was I'm trying to list my best selling products but no products appear . He doesn't understand the technical reason behind it, although I could view this was the reason behind the scenes. From his point of view it's a bug.

If the user wants to display the best sellers, then currently he's unable to do so, when his e-shop is full of configurable products.

Moreover the list is also not accurate, because let's say from one dress I keep selling only the black color and I've sold 10 items of it.

From another dress I've sold 9 black dresses, 9 purple, 9 red. Which of the two products is the true best seller and more likely to purchase again? Obviously the second one with the most total sales.

[engcom-November]

Hi @ioweb-gr , Thank you for your inputs. Considering this as feature request since this((Configurable products alone are not displayed in best sellers list).) is an existing default behavior of Magento. There are some 3rd party extensions available which may serve your purpose for now. Considering this an enhancement and adding Feature request label. Ex: https://www.proxiblue.com.au/premium-modules/magento-dynamic-category-products.html https://github.com/seansan/SNH_Bestseller