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Advanced Product Options

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Advanced Product Options MageWorx

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Advanced Product Options Magento extension MageWorx

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Table of Contents Extension Installation ...................................................... 5

Extension Usage ............................................................. 7

Creation of custom options template ................................. 7

Backup/Restore custom options template ......................... 10

Custom Options’ inventory ............................................ 11

Stock Report ............................................................ 17

Order Products in Bulk ................................................. 18

Quantity for custom options on the front-end ..................... 18

Customer Groups for custom options ................................ 22

Dependent Custom Options ........................................... 23

Weight of Custom Options ........................................... 25

Cost of Custom Options ............................................... 26

Multi-Store Support ................................................... 26

Absolute Prices ........................................................ 27

Tier Prices for Custom Options ...................................... 28

Special Price for Custom Options ................................... 29

SKU Policy .............................................................. 30

Link Custom Options to Products ................................... 32

Catalog – Manage Products ............................................ 33

Import/Export .......................................................... 36

Color/Image Swatch. Overlay Options ............................. 37

Descriptions for Options, Option's Values .......................... 42

Settings .................................................................. 45


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Extension DescriptionAdvanced Product Options extension enables creating any number

of the predefined custom options or combinations of them for products.

Then you can bulk assign predefined custom options to any number of

products as well as bulk remove the assignment of the predefined

custom options. It is also possible to apply predefined custom options

directly on the product edit page.

Advanced Product Options Magento extension makes the process

of creation of custom options for bunch of products easy and smooth.

You do not have to create the same custom options for several

products separately. All you need to do is to create custom options

template and assign it to needed products in one click.

Moreover, you can upload images for custom options, track stock

inventory, set default options and make custom options dependent.

http://www.mageworx.com/advanced-product-options-magento-extension.html


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Extension Installation 11 Disable Compilation Mode if it is enabled

22 Log out from Magento Admin panel if you are logged in

33 Unpack the contents of the ‘extension’ folder from the package

file purchased from MageWorx to your Magento root folder

44 Log into Magento Admin Panel

55 If Cache Control is enabled in Magento go to ‘System > Cache

Management’ section, select ‘Refresh’ under ‘All Cache’ drop-

down menu and press ‘Save Cache Settings’

66 Enable Compilation Mode back if necessary

77 Now go to ‘System > Configuration > MageWorx tab >

Extensions & Support’ section. If you see ‘Advanced Product

Options’ in the list of installed MageWorx extensions you are

done.


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Installation to a custom template or theme

If you use a custom template or theme you need to copy the

extension’s layouts and templates to the folders with the custom

design. You should copy all the folders (“layout” and “template”) inside

the folder “app/design/frontend/default/default/” of the extension’s

package to the folder with your current template and/or theme:

“app/design/frontend/<your_template>/<your_theme>/”.

Don’t forget to refresh the cache if enabled.


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Extension Usage Custom Options Templates

Log in to Magento Admin panel and go to ‘Catalog’ > ‘Advanced

Product Options’ section. The list of all created templates is available

on this page.

A number of products each template is assigned to is also shown

directly in the grid.

Click on the ‘Add Options’ button to add a new template. You will see

default features available for custom options:

‘Title’ – name of the template. It will be visible for admin on the product

edit page in case of manual assignment.


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‘Status’ – a status of the template (Enabled/Disabled).

The process of addition of new options is the same as standard one in

Magento except for new fields like “Description”, “One-time” and

“Default”, i.e. when adding new option you need to specify:

• Title of the option (displayed on the front-end);

• Input Type – the type of options (text area, check-box, drop-

down etc.);

• Is Required – determines if an option is required or not at a

product page;

• One-time – if enabled, custom option’s price will be added

only once to product total despite the quantity of products

added to cart (Technical note: the option's price is being

divided by the qty of products added to the cart, though

appears as a whole value in the cart);

• Sort Order – determines the sort order of an option among

other custom options at the product page.

• Description – the description of a custom option, which will

be displayed near the option on the front-end. It gives your

customers the full details about what you are offering.

• Default – this option allows you to specify a default value for

custom option. If specified, appropriate value is shown for

custom option by default on the front-end. If the option’s type

is radio-button or drop-down you can specify only one default

value. If it is a check-box or multi-select you can specify

several default values.


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When you are done with options you can assign them to the

products. For this just switch to ‘Products’ tab and select the

products you need. Click on ‘Save Options’ to complete. After that

the custom options will be assigned to chosen products and

displayed on the front-end for them.

Note: you can use built-in filters to find necessary products easily.

You can assign products by entering their IDs or SKUs as well.

The system calculates the load on the server when assigning a

template to products and if the server’s resources are not enough, the

system launches the multi step process and processed products by

parts. It allows assigning templates to unlimited number of products at

once.


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One more feature since v2.0 is the “Duplicate” button. It allows you to

duplicate existing template so that you don't have to create all custom

options again.

Please note that all other features available for the options should be

enabled in the configuration.

Backup/Restore Custom Options Templates

Advanced Product Options extension allows you to import and export

templates with all their options. You can export one template or export

specific templates in bulk. The templates will be exported to a file on

your computer. This file can be used only for import in our extension.

This functionality makes the process of copying options templates

between different sites very easy. All you have to do is to export

templates from one site and import them into another one.


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Custom Options’ inventory

Advanced Product Options extension allows specifying available stock

quantity for each custom option’s value. For example, if you have a

custom option “Color” with 3 values: Red, Blue and White. You can

specify quantity for each option (Red, Blue or White). This quantity is

decreased when product is purchased and restored when order is

canceled or refunded. Available quantity can be shown on the front-

end near each option to show your customers how many products with

particular custom options left.

Out of stock options

Out of stock options can be hidden or disabled on the front-end (this

happens automatically when the quantity gets zero). You can choose

either just to disable out of stock options on the front-end or to disable

and display “Out of stock” label for such options on the front-end.

Out of stock options can be backordered the same way as backorders

for normal products in Magento work.


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Low stock options

The APO also allows displaying the “Low stock” message for custom

options which are getting low stock. You can specify a quantity to

enable the low stock functionality, i.e. if an option’s inventory gets

lower this value, the option becomes the low stock.

Available stock options

Our extension allows displaying available inventory for custom options

on the front-end. You can also decide for what options you need to

display available stock:

• Display for in Stock Only – it will show the stock for custom

options, which are in stock, i.e. it will ignore the low stock options

if enabled;

• Display including Low Stock – it will show the stock for in-

stock and low-stock options;

• Display for Low Stock Only – it will show the stock for low

stock options only.


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Minimum & Maximum quantities for custom options

You can specify a maximum or minimum value of custom options is

allowed to purchase.

For example, if you have a minimum value set to 3 and a maximum

value set to 7, it means that if a customer chooses this option on the

front-end, by default 3 will be added to the main product Qty field and

customers won’t be able to purchase less than 3 of these options. The

same for maximum value: customers won’t be able to add more than 7

of this option to the cart.

Note: in order to ensure that quantities of the options previously

assigned to products won’t be overwritten while one makes any

changes to the options template, Qty field is not updatable in this case

by default. This will guarantee that quantities of custom options of the

products will always reflect actual data. However, you can select the

“Update Assigned Options' Stock on Save” when saving a template

and the stock of custom options will be updated for assigned products

as well.


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In order to enable custom options’ inventory you should turn this

feature in the extension’s settings. Once done you will see “Qty” field

for each custom options’ value.

Since v3.2.0 if all required custom options of a product get out of stock,

the product gets out of stock automatically. It makes the process of

managing the product inventory easier. This setting can be

enabled/disabled.

Note: We recommend disabling this setting because it can affect the

overall performance.

Front-end

You can see how the custom options with enabled inventory feature

look on the front-end (quantity can be shown on the front-end and out

of stock options are disabled):


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Low stock is shown:

Assign a custom option’s inventory to a product’s one

Our extension allows you to connect the inventory of a custom

option to the inventory of a specific product. For this you should

enter a SKU of a product into SKU field of the custom option.

After that the stock quantity of the product will be copied to the quantity

of the option and the last one will be disabled for editing unless you

remove the SKU. If a customer purchases the linked product the


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inventory of this custom option will be changed too, and vice versa. If

an order is cancelled, the product's and the option's former quantities

will be restored.

If the option gets out of stock, the connected product will be out of

stock too and vice versa. If you enter a wrong SKU, it will be colored in

red and you will be able to specify the inventory for the custom option

manually.

The icon just near the SKU field allows you to open a connected

product in a new tab. It can be useful if you need to check this product.

Stock Report

The APO extension has the built-in report, which shows the inventory

for all custom options’ values on a site. The options are breakdown by

product and custom option. So you can easily find an option for a

product, which is getting out of stock, for example. The report also

shows if an option is connected to another product via SKU. You can

update the inventories for selected options at once. It’s possible to set

the inventory, increase or decrease the inventories by specific values.


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By clicking on a product name you will get to a product edit page in the

back-end.

Order Products in Bulk

Our extension allows you to create custom options that update the

main product Qty field by a specific amount. Example: if you sell

products by packs (6 items in a pack; 8 items in a pack and 10 items in

a pack). You need to add 6, 8 or 10 items to the cart once the

appropriate option is selected. For this, you should enter x6, x8 and

x10 to the Qty field for each appropriate option’s value in the back-end.

When a customer chooses the option “6 items in a pack”, the main Qty

field on the front-end will be updated to 6.

If customer chooses several options with “x” feature, all the amounts

are summed and added to the main Qty field.

Quantity field for custom options on the front-end

One of the new features is the possibility to enter quantity of custom

options on the front-end. This allows your customers to enter quantity

for each custom option they want to order. Example: if you sell cell


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phones, you can add charger as a custom option for a product.

Customers will be able to order 1 cell phone and 2 chargers.

This feature is also should be turned on in the settings first. After that

you will be able to tick off the options using “Qnty Input” checkbox,

which enables “Qty” field on the front-end:


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Qnty Input is enabled. Your customers can add custom options with

the quantity different from the main product’s one.

The “Qty” label can be translated directly in the back-end (“Default

Option Qty Field Label” setting).

Advanced Product Options also shows custom option’s quantity and

the price at cart page. Thus, your customers see what custom options

are added, their quantity and price. They won’t be confused any more.


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You can enable/disable the display of quantity of added options in the

cart directly in the back-end (“Show Qty per Option in Cart” setting)

The options are displayed correctly on the last checkout step too:


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Orders, Invoices, email notifications reflect the changes as well:

Customer Groups for custom options

Advanced Product Options extension allows you to create custom

options, which are be visible only for particular custom groups. It’s

useful if you provide different products’ configurations for different

customer groups or want to provide different prices of custom options

for different customers.

This feature can be turned on/off in the extension’s settings (“Enable

Customer Groups for custom options”). If on, you will see “Customer

Groups” setting for each option in the back-end:


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The customers who do not belong to the selected groups won’t even

see such options unless they change a customer group.

Dependent Custom Options

Since v2.2.0 you can create dependent custom options. In order to use

this feature you should enable it in the extension’s settings. Once

done, you will see new fields and actions:

• Dependency – No / AND / OR (see below).

• Option’s ID - it shows the ID of an option’s value. You can use

these IDs to enter them manually in the “Children” field to making

options dependent.

• “Children” field – IDs of dependent options are here. You can

manually enter options’ IDs separated by commas or use the

button near this field and select dependent options from

hierarchical tree.


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AND:

• OptionA (parent)• OptionB (parent)• OptionC (child) [dependency: AND]

When both A+B are selected, C is available.

OR (former dependency mode):

• OptionA (parent)• OptionB (parent)• OptionC (child) [dependency: OR]

When either A or B are selected, C is available.


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The template’s view with enabled dependent options:

In this case, “Size” option won’t be selectable unless customers select

the “Color” option. If they choose “White” color then “S” and “M” sizes

will become available. If they choose “Black” then “L” color will become

available. Thus, you can specify quantity for options selections.

Example: if you have limited quantity of Black – S T-shirts, you can

enter this quantity in “S” option (dependent option) and thus you

specify create a stock value for combination of options.

All types of custom options can be dependent. Checkbox, Radio-

button, Drop-down and Multi-select types can be parent options.

Moreover, you can hide dependent custom options on the front-end

unless customers select parent options.


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Weight of Custom Options

Since v3.0 you can specify a weight for each custom option value. This

weight can be added to a product’s weight or replace it when the

option is selected (the same was as absolute price works). Thus, now

you can create custom options that will have a weight and can affect

the shipping costs. One more step to get rid of configurable products.

You can specify weight when creating/editing a template:

You can also do this while editing your products.

If you enable absolute weight (the check-box near the template’s title),

it will replace a product’s weight with an option’s weight once it’s

selected. It’s possible to enable an absolute weight for each template

or product separately.


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Cost of Custom Options

You can specify a cost for each custom option value. This cost will be

added to a product’s cost. It allows you to track the final cost of your

products correctly.

The cost for custom options can be enabled/disabled in the back-end.

Multi-Store Support

Advanced Product Options allows translating custom options templates

to different languages by specifying appropriate translations for each

store view. This is done similar to standard Magento multi-stores

support. You can also create custom options for particular store views.

For this just select the necessary store views for each custom option.

When editing an options template you can switch a store view in left

drop-down and specify an appropriate value for necessary store view.

Note: you can change only option's title, option's description, view

mode, titles of option's values and prices of option's values.


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If you need to hide several options on specific store views, you should

choose the «View Mode = Disable» for them.

You can change this on a product level too:

Absolute Prices

Since v2.5.0 Advanced Product Options allows using absolute prices

for custom options. You can enable it for each options template or per

a product. This makes possible to create custom options with normal


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and absolute price. If enabled, custom option's price replaces a

product's price. Example: if a product costs $10 and an option's price

is $5. When customer selects this option, the product's price will be $5,

i.e. the option's price will replace the product's price.

Note: the same product cannot have options with normal and absolute

prices at the same time. If you select the absolute prices check-box, all

the options will behave as options with absolute prices.

Tier Prices for Custom Options

Since v3.9.6 the APO allows you to add the tier prices for custom

options. It works the same way as it's done in default Magento. First,

you should enable the appropriate setting in the extension's

configuration:

After that you will be able to add tier prices for each value of custom

options:


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Tier prices can be fixed or percentage. You can add tier prices for

specific customer groups if necessary.

Your customers will see the tier prices when they select the option:

The tier prices can be setup in the options templates or when editing

products.

Special Price for Custom Options

Since v3.9.6 the APO allows you to add the special prices for custom

options. First you should enable the setting in the extension's

configuration:

After that you will be able to add special prices for each value of the

options:


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Special price can be fixed or percentage. It's possble to set up special

prices for specific customer groups. Our extension allows you to

specify dates when the special price should be active. You can also

add a comment, which will be displayed near a new price on the front-

end:

SKU Policy

This feature determines how the result SKU of purchased product with

custom options will be formed in the order. You should know that if a

custom option has a SKU, Magento will add it to the product's SKU in

the order:


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It can cause problems if you export orders in 3rd party systems. They

won't be able to find a product with the SKU «n2610-WhiteSKU» to

update it properly.

The SKU Policy offer several different solutions:

1) Replacement Mode. This mode keeps the product with options

as is but it replaces the product's SKU with the option's SKU in

the order:

2) Grouped Mode. This mode transforms custom options into

separate items in the order and replaces the product with custom

options:

3) Independent Mode. This mode transforms custom options into

separate items in the order but keep the product in the order:

You can select the mode in the general settings or per each option

separately.


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It's possible to apply the SKU Policy to the order view only or to the

cart and order view.

Thus, you get a full control of how you need to display custom options

with SKUs in the order.

Note: It doesn't create extra products in the catalogue.

Note: This feature works with custom options with SKUs only.

The SKU Policy can be applied to the cart too to display custom

options as single products at cart.

Note: The product which is linked to your main product via SKU should

not have custom options. Otherwise the SKU Policy won't be applied.

Link Custom Options to Products The Advanced Product Options extension allows you to connect

custom options to other products in your catalog. For this you should

just enter a SKU of a valid product to the SKU field of an option. If

everything went smoothly, then you will see the icon next to the SKU

field, which will allow you to open a connected product in a new tab:

If the entered SKU is wrong, then it will be highlighted in red:

When you connect options to products, it’s possible to copy the

product’s price, name, cost, weight and stock to the option:


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Once they are synced, these values will be disabled for editing for the

option unless you unselect the necessary attributes in the setting

above or remove the connection by emptying the SKU field.

You can disable the link functionality at all by selecting the “None”

option.

Catalog – Manage Products

If you need to specify the options template separately for a product go

to ‘Catalog > Manage Products > choose any product > Custom

Options’ tab

You will be able to choose one of the created options templates to

apply to the product. Once you select a template and save the product,

the custom options from the template will be displayed at the front-end

product page.


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If you would like to create another template, click on ‘click here to

define’ link and you will be redirected to option templates page.

However, you still can add new options manually using standard

Magento functionality. For this just press ‘Add New Option’ button.

New hint, which shows the template’s name a custom option belongs

to, is added. It helps you to find all the options of a template in a easier

way.

Note: templates’ options on the product view have different IDs (8x5,

8x4 and etc.), where “8” is the ID of the template.

You can use the same features as in custom options templates

section.

Keep Options on Unlink

This check-box can be found below the templates list in the Custom

Options tab when editing a product.


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This setting is used when it’s necessary to keep all options of an

assigned template after removing the connection between a product

and this template. Normally, if you just remove the product from the

template, all options of this template will be removed from the product

as well. However, if you need to keep these options you should do the

following: select “Keep Options on Unlink” -> deselect the template in

the “Options Templates” area -> save the product.

Note: if you assign a template to a product and then changed the

options of the template directly on the product level, all your changes

will be reverted to original values in the next template update. You

should unassign the template using the “Keep Options on Unlink” in

this case.

Note: if you assign a template to a product and then removed some

the options of the template directly on the product level, all your

removed options will be restored to in the next template update. You

should use “Do Not Restore Deleted Options” check-box while saving

the template. It won’t restore options that were removed on the product

level.


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Import/Export

Since v2.8.0 Advanced Product Options supports standard Magento

import/export functionality. You can export all new features that our

extension adds to standard custom options: an option’s description, a

default option’s value, dependent options and etc. To create a CSV file

for importing products with custom options, you can export them first to

check how custom options are added in a CSV file. You can do this in

System – Import/Export – Export – select products and CSV format

and download a file.

Note: options are imported/exported with a connection to custom

option templates.


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Color / Image Swatch. Overlay Options

Color / Image swatch is one of the most requested features. It allows

uploading multiple images to a custom option’s value, replace a

product’s image with them, append them to a product’s gallery or

replace a product’s gallery with option’s images and specify a color’s

hash code to use custom options as a color swatch.

First, you should enable the setting “Enable Image Mode” in the

extension’s configuration.

It will add a new setting “Image Mode” for every option:

This setting specifies how the option’s images should be displayed.

You can display them as thumbnails near the option, replace a

product’s gallery with these images or append them to the product’s

gallery.

If you need to display a small thumbnail near the option and append

other images in the product’s gallery or replace the gallery, you can

ignore this mode for the first uploaded image:


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This mode works for all custom options of select type. You can upload

multiple images to a drop-down, a radio-button or a check-box.

You can upload multiple images for a drop-down and they all will

appear above or below the drop-down on the front-end.

If you need to display colors (images) instead of custom options and to

switch a main product’s image with a custom option’s image when it’s

selected, you should create an option of “Swatch” input type. All image

modes support the swatch type.

This option’s type displays a color’s (image’s) thumbnail instead of

custom options on the front-end. When a color (image) is clicked on

the front-end, it selects an appropriate custom option’s value and

replaces a product’s main image with an option’s image.

Color swatch allows specifying a color’s hash code to display a color’s

thumbnails on the front-end:


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The front-end:


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The main product’s image is switched when the color is selected:

The size of these thumbnails can be adjusted in the configuration of

the extension.

You can also create options of the “Swatch Multiselect” type. It means

that customers will be able to choose several values of such swatch

option on the front-end.

By default, the first image (color) will replace a main product’s image. If

you need to use the first image as color’s thumbnail or image

thumbnail and switch the second image for replacing, you should use


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the setting “Ignore for First Image”. This will use the second image for

replacing.

The extension supports the Overlay image mode. With this mode the

images will overlay the main product image. Each next selected

overlay option will be added on previous ones. This feature can be

used when you give your customers the way to create their own item

like choosing the frames of the image.

Descriptions for Options, Options' Values

The Advanced Product Options extension can add the descriptions for

the entire option and for each option’s variation (value). These

descriptions can be shown as a plain text or as a tooltip on the front-

end. Admin can configure this in the back-end separately for the entire

option and for the option’s value.

You can use HTML tags in the descriptions.

Our extension also allows you to choose how you would like to enter

the descriptions: in a text field; in a text area or using the WYSIWYG.


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WYSIWYG

Text Area


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This is how it looks on the front-end:

Tooltip

Plain text


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Settings

You can find extension’s settings in System – Configuration –

MAGEWORX – Catalog – Advanced Product Options.


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• Enable – enables/disables the extension

• Enable Dependent Custom Options – enables/disables the

functionality of dependent custom options

• Hide Dependent Custom Options – hides/shows dependent

custom options on the front-end, i.e. if set to “Yes”, dependent

options will be hidden on the front-end unless customers

select parent options (dependent will be shown after that)

• Enable Weight – enables/disables the ability to enter a

weight for custom options.

• Enable Cost – enables/disables the ability to enter a cost for

custom options.


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• Enable “Starting At” Price Prefix – displays/hides the

“Starting At” message before a product’s price at the category

page if the product has custom options with price.

• Enable Special Price – enables/disables the ability to add

special prices for each value of the custom options.

• Enable Date for Special Price – this setting allows you to

specify dates when special prices will be available.

• Enable Tier Price - enables/disables the ability to add tier

prices for each value of the custom options.

• Linked Assigned Product’s Attributes to Option via SKU

– you can specify what product’s attributes should be copied

to the option once they are connected via the SKU. If none is

selected, nothing will be copied from the linked products to

the option.

• Enable Option’s Description – enables the description field

for the entire option. You can also choose how the description

will be shown on the front-end: as a plain text or as a tooltip.

• Description’s Edit Mode – it changes the way how you enter

descriptions in the back-end. You can enter it either in a text

field/area or using WYSIWYG.

• Enable Option’s Variation Description – enables the

description field for each value of an option. You can also

choose how the description will be shown on the front-end: as

a plain text or as a tooltip.

• Enable Option SKU Policy – enables/disables the SKU

Policy functionality.


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• Default Option SKU Policy – you can select a default mode

for the SKU Policy.

• Apply Option SKU Policy to – you can choose where the

SKU Policy should be applied: order view only or cart and

order view.

• Enable Custom Options Inventory – enables/disables stock

quantity feature for custom options.

• Out-of-stock Options -

• Hide “Out of stock” Not Required Options – if enabled

custom options, which are currently out of stock and not

required, will be hidden on the front-end. Otherwise, they will

be disabled and will have “Out of stock” label.

• Display Inventory Qty for Custom Options on the Front-

end – shows available stock quantity for each custom option

at the product page

• Enable Qnty field for custom options on the front-end –

enables/disables the ability to show Qnty field for custom

options on the front-end.

• Default Option Qty field label – you can specify a default

label for Qnty field for custom options on the front-end

• Show Qty per Option in Cart – displays/hides the ordered

quantity of custom options at cart page

• Enable Pre-poluating Text for Input Options –

enables/disables a default text for input options on the front-

end. Example, if it’s enabled you can specify a default text,

which will appear inside the field option


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• Enable Specifying CSS Class in Option DIV – allows you to

enter a specific CSS class for each option

• Enable Custom Options for customer groups-

enables/disables possibility to assign custom options to

customer groups

• Enable Custom Options for store views - enables/disables

possibility to assign custom options to different store views

• Size of Thumbnails – specifies the size of options’ images

on the front-end.

• Images above options – you can choose whether to show

images above custom options or below them.


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Compatibility with Instant Cart extension

Instant Cart extension adds AJAX pop-up when one adds products

to the cart. It’s fully compatible with all Advanced Product

Options features (options’ dependency, options’ images, options’

default value and quantity field for custom options). You can see

below how the pop-up looks when one adds the product with

dependent custom options (Qty input is enabled) to the cart from

a category page:

http://www.mageworx.com/ajax-cart-magento-extension.html


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Other Features

Using option’s SKU to connect option to products

The APO allows you to connect any option’s value to any your

product via SKU. For this you should enter a product’s SKU to the

option’s SKU field. Once it’s done the product’s inventory is copied

to the option’s inventory and the latter becomes unavailable for

editing. The same for product and option prices if the setting is

enabled in the back-end:

If you add a SKU of a product, which doesn’t exist in your store,

the SKU will be highlighted in red:

If the option is connected to the product, their inventories become

common. It means that if customers purchase a connected

product, the inventory of the connected option is changed and vice

versa.

“Starting At” price prefix

Since the v3.9.6 you can enable the “Starting At” label for

product’s price if it has custom options with prices. It gives your


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customers understanding that the price is configurable and can be

higher:

Using Custom Options to purchase product in different quantities

The APO can add products to cart with different quantities

depending on selected custom options. Let’s say that you need so

that the option1 will add 100 quantities of the product and the

option2 – 50. For this you should add x100 and x50 to the

“Quantity” fields for these custom options:

When customers select the option1 on the front-end, it will add

100 items of the main product:


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You can use this functionality in combinations of absolute, one-

time options to configure this for your needs. You can even hide

the main product’s Qty field, enable the quantity field for each

custom option and use this functionality to purchase product in

bundle.

You may be interested in other Mageworx Product Management

extensions.

http://www.mageworx.com/magento-product-management-extensions.html

http://www.mageworx.com/magento-product-management-extensions.html


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to contact us at [email protected]

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