Customisation
This tab allows you to manage Customisations; these are complex options where their number and/or complexity mean that creating individual Variants for each potential combination is impractical.
To manage Customisations, the product must be set as 'Made to Order' on the Product tab
Potential Uses
There are a wide variety of potential use cases, as well as different solutions to the problem of product setup
- Combinations of multiple options, e.g. 'Choose Colour', 'Choose Size', 'Choose Feet', 'Choose Drawers', 'Choose Tension', all on a single product
- Visual representation of options via Swatches
- Parent and Child options, e.g. customer chooses 'with drawers' (yes/no), with a subsequent set of options that only display if they select 'yes'
- Addition of personalisation, e.g. a handstitched name on the back of a football kit
Pricing
Customisations may be added at various price points
- Options with a surcharge of a fixed monetary value, e.g. +£15 to add personalisation
- Options with a surcharge as a percentage of the total value, e.g. +10% to have the product gold plated
- Options with no cost implication, e.g. the cost of the option is built into the variant
Setup
Customisation is applied individually to each Variant.
Managing Customisations
| Field | Purpose |
| Option |
This is the Option Name, e.g. 'choose colour'
Requires the Option to be setup prior to the Customisation |
| Top Level Option |
If unticked, this option will be a Child Option, and will only be selectable if its parent has been selected
This defines whether the option defaults to yes |
| Child Option | These tick boxes will only be visible if another Option has been set as a Child Option; you will then be able to link Child Options to specific Option Values |
| Value |
This is the Option Value, e.g. 'pink' or 'green'
If Customisations are setup via the Swatch Assignment tool, this will default to the name of the Swatch |
| Code |
This is the option code, and is used as an identifier
Defaults to blank |
| Price + £ | Additional value to be added to the Retail price of the Variant |
| Offer + £ |
Additional value to be added to the Special Offer price of the Variant
This will only apply during a Special Offer period, as defined by the Variant |
| Cost + £ | Additional value to be added to the Cost price of the Variant |
| Price + % | Additional percentage to be added to the Retail price of the Variant |
| Swatch | Choose the Swatch that will display with this Option Value |
| Variant Image | Select a linked Variant Image that will display within the Swatch Preview Panel |
| In-Store POS Only | Toggles whether this particular Customisation Value is available to eCommerce Customers |
| Favourite |
Determines whether this shows as a Swatch Preview
Only applies if the Customisation has a Swatch |
You may also copy options from one Variant on a Product to another Variant on the same Product.