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Product Options - Limit min & max selection

virap1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:16:33 GMT

Hello, I would appreciate if someone can help me understand if this is something possible.

We have a product mix grill. It comes with customers choice of 10 skewers of kebab. They can mix and match the type of kebabs they want as long as the total skewers is 10. So they can pick 5 chicken kebab, 3 lamb & 2 vegetables or they might pick 10 chicken kebabs etc.

How do we create such setup? I can't do it with modifiers, variations, options...

Also it would be great to connect their choices to a stock management system so when a specific option is bought though such product then the stock levels of that product are updates.

We have successfully used such setup with WooCommerce but can't figure out a way to do so with Square. Thanks.

Re: Product Options - Limit min & max selection

Donnie-M — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:14:51 GMT

@virap1 You can do it with modifiers but there are a couple of various ways to do it.

1. You would make the item be the # of skewers: Pick 10 Skewers

2. You can make 1 modifiers set with 10 each of your skewers and put a min/max choice on it from the online dashboard of 10/10. They have to pick 10 of the available choices. This seems long but does work quite well (I use it with a pick 2 pick 3 pick 4 breakfast mix/match).

3. The other way is to make 10 modifiers each with all of the choices (they will be identical except for the name of the modifier): Choice 1, choice 2, choice 3, choice 4, etc. Then you make the min max 1/1 so they have to pick 1 from each modifier to add the item to card.

4. You could make it also using "options" but you would have literally hundreds of variations with too many choices. I would advise against this. I have used this for 6 or 12 wings with various sauce choices. It works but for food it is not like a t-shirt with sizes.

So this #2 lends itself really well to having say a pick 5 pick 10...you can reuse the modifers.

Hope this is as clear as mud..please shoot any questions you might have.

Re: Product Options - Limit min & max selection

virap1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:59:26 GMT

Thank you very much @Donnie-M.

I am not sure I understood this.

1. You would make the item be the # of skewers: Pick 10 Skewers.

And here

from what I understood the modifier will have 10 options for only 3 type of kebabs? If so that would be really bad front end implementation.

What about stock level management? Even if some modifier set actually can do it, we will still not be able to manage stock levels as that is not supported by modifiers.

Re: Product Options - Limit min & max selection

JTPets — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:09:51 GMT

Easier way to do this IMHO:

Create a discount that auto applies x% or x% amount once 10 of a unit purchased

Example: Each kabob is 1.10 or 10 for $10 with a auto applied coupon setup in Square Dashboard

Re: Product Options - Limit min & max selection

JTPets — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:11:58 GMT

Re: Product Options - Limit min & max selection

virap1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:52:13 GMT

Thank you very much JTPETS. If I understand your solution correctly it would solve the pricing problem, but I also want them to be able to build their own dinner without passing the allowed skewers.

Square, something basic like is supposed be so hard and impossible. A single WordPress WooCommerce plugin can do this (WooCommerce product bundles) and an entire ecosystem from square either can't or is impossibly hard to figure out.