How do I use order options with Doba products?

[alisml123]

I am new to using Doba and need to know how I can use the order options feature with Doba products. For example: I have imported Boy's T-Shirts; this is available in 6 different colors and 5 different sizes. What is the best way to publish these options? Also, this Doba product only has one image (Black) for all color options and each have different SKU's and Product Names. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!

[ShopSite Lauren]

I am not too familiar with the DOBA integration, but it is my understanding that you would not be able to manually enter products, but instead, when the products are imported by ShopSite, they include all the needed information to link those products directly with the products in DOBA. This is necessary in order to check inventory levels when a customer adds that product to their cart; it is also important in order to send the purchase information to DOBA for you as the merchant to quickly complete the transaction. Because of this, you would not be able to use the Ordering Options feature in ShopSite. The Ordering Options feature is for a single product to have different options, but the various size and color options in DOBA each are their own product.

What I would suggest is to use a custom template (or modify a built in template) or use a theme such as the Congruence theme in ShopSite which will display subproducts in a pull down menu. With this, you would add one product to your store pages, the parent product that you add to your store pages is also the one which has the image, which has the description, etc. For this example I will just call this parent product "T-Shirt." Then you would assign the various size options or color options as subproducts. Based off how the template treats the subproducts, they will be displayed in a single pull down menu. So for the customer, it would look the same as if you were using the Ordering Options, but for you as the merchant, any option that they select in the pull down menu will add a different product to the cart.
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/product11-subpulldown.shtml
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/builtintemplates-congruence.shtml

[alisml123]

Thank you so much for your reply. The information you have given was very helpful.

[alisml123]

I am sorry to bother you with this again, but your idea worked great in that we were able to create a master part then place all the sizes and colors (subproducts) in a drop down menu. However, now the drop down menu displays: Product Name, Color, Size, Price (or On Sale Price). As you can image with all that informtion our drop down lists are extremely wide and they are not appealing at all to our customers. Is there a way I can have less inforamtion appear for each subproduct? Ideally, just size, color and price would be great. Thank you

[ShopSite Lauren]

If you go to the customer product template you are using (or built in template if you are using the congruence product template), there is a section to define how the subproduct is laid out. It will look something like the following:
[-- DEFINE SUBPRODUCT --]
<option value="[-- PRODUCT.RecordNumber --]">[-- PRODUCT.Name --] - [-- PRODUCT.Price --]</option>
[-- END_DEFINE SUBPRODUCT --]

What you will want to do is take out the information you don't need, or if all that information is in the product name, you will want to choose a different product field that you can display to shorten the name. For example, you could using the product field 1. If a product has information in the product field 1 filled in, then it would display that, otherwise the whole product name will be used. So for products where the name is "T-shirt small blue" you could enter "small blue" into the extra product field 1. The template code would look something similar to:

[-- DEFINE SUBPRODUCT --]
<option value="[-- PRODUCT.RecordNumber --]">
[-- IF PRODUCT.Field1 --]
[-- PRODUCT.Field1 --]
[-- ELSE --]
[-- PRODUCT.Name --]
[-- END_IF --]
-
[-- IF PRODUCT.SaleAmount --]
[-- PRODUCT.Sale Amount --] On Sale!
[-- ELSE --]
[-- PRODUCT.Price --]
[-- END_IF --]
</option>
[-- END_DEFINE SUBPRODUCT --]

[alisml123]

Hi Lauren

I have tried many custom template variations and I just can't get the Doba products to display correctly. I am currently using 3Column-Product.sst template and I did set up product field 1 for entering color, size. How can I modify this template so all that displays in my drop down list is the values in field 1? If field 1 is blank then use name?

Thank you in advance for all your help!
Lisa

[ShopSite Lauren]

If you are assigning the products as subproducts, then in the product template (you will want to make a copy to modify if you have not already done that), you will want to change the DEFINE SUBPRODUCT section to be something similar to:

[-- DEFINE SUBPRODUCTS --]
<option value="[-- PRODUCT.RecordNumber --]">[-- IF PRODUCT.Field1 --][-- PRODUCT.Field1 --][-- ELSE --][-- PRODUCT.Name --][-- END_IF --]</option>
[-- END_DEFINE SUBPRODUCTS --]

and in the DEFINE PRODUCT and DEFINE MORE_INFO_PAGE sections you will want to loop the subproducts like:

[-- IF PRODUCT.SubProduct --]
<select name="itemnum">
[-- LOOP SUBPRODUCTS --]
[-- SUBPRODUCTS --]
[-- END_LOOP SUBPRODUCTS --]
</select>
[-- END_IF --]