This Gems creates variants for a Spree Shop when needed. Useful for products with many, many options. Dynamic Variant Creation is a better alternative than creating multimillion variant entries for each possible option combination.
Adds a "dynamic variants" checkbox to products which makes the variant creation for the product dynamic. Adds a surcharge field to option values which contains optional surcharges for a specific option value.
dynamic variant creation:
- Shows all available options as dropdowns in product screen.
- When product is put in cart, the correct variant is created if it doesn't exist yet.
- The variant will have the price of the product plus the surcharges of its selected option values
- Existence of a products variant is checked by options and price (if the price is altered a new variant will be created).
IMPORTANT: The frontend functionality (create new variant when put something in cart) for the gem does only work up to spree 3.6.x yet.
Add spree_dynamic_variants to your Gemfile:
gem 'spree_dynamic_variants', github: 'hefan/spree_dynamic_variants', branch: 'master'Bundle your dependencies and run the installation generator:
bundle
bundle exec rails g spree_dynamic_variants:installAdd Products, Option Types and Option Values. Assign Surcharges for Option Values if needed. Assign Option Types to Product. Set "dynamic variants?" on Product to true.
Go to Frontend Product Screen, assemble your Options and put it in Cart.
Assumes the Variant will be combined and sent after ordering (or is digital). Therefore: If track inventory is on, the newly created variant will have track_inventory = false. The newly created variant will have the same sku like the master variant plus a timestamp.
When you create Orders in Backend you still need to create the variant by hand.
released under the New BSD License