Nowadays due to improvement of the technological opportunities to handle customization efforts the demand from customers for individually specified products is constantly increasing. That's why Product Configurator has become quite a required software.

CS-Cart shopping cart tending to require all modern needs of users provides them with Product Configurator Add-on, a tool allowing to set up configurable products in your webstore and to simplify the sale of such complex products like personal computers, for example.

CS-Cart Product Configurator Add-on improves your webstore's functionality in case you have configurable products to sell allowing to create a product composed by a number of pre-developed components.

Part 1.

In order to start using CS-Cart Product Configurator Add-on, first of all, you have to enable it. You can do it by following the instructions below:

• Sign in your administration panel;
• Go to the Administration tab;
Add-ons link;
• Find the Product configurator add-on in the list;
• Change its status from Disabled to Active in the select box on the right – this will enable add-on.

Part 2.

How to create a configurable product

Here is an example of creating a configurable product. We will create a Wedding dress for a girl, which a user will be able to assort from several components, say, dress, shoes, rings.

2.1.

• Go to the Catalog tab;
• Follow the Configurator link;
• Go to the Steps tab;
• Clicking on the Add step button on the right will open a New step window;
• Create steps, for example: step 1 - Jewelery, step 2 - Dress, Step 3 - Shoes;





• Fill in the necessary fields in the General tab:
• Click on the Create button.

2.2.

• Go to the Product groups tab on the same page;
• Create groups of products;
• Attach them to the created steps;
• Clicking on the Add button on the right will open the New group window;

2.2.1.

• Fill in the following fields of the General tab:
• Name – type the name of the group, for example, Wedding Dress;
• Images - upload an image of the group if it is needed;
• Full description - type the group description;
• Step - assign one of the created steps to the group, for example Dress;
• Display type - choose one of the following display types:
• select box,
• radio group,
• check box.
• Status – tick the necessary status: Active or Disabled.

2.2.2.

• Go to the Products tab on the page;
• Clicking on the Add products link will open Add product window;
• In order to add the necessary products, tick the box opposite to the necessary product;
• Click on the Add products and close button.

2.3.

• Go to the Compatibility classes tab on the Configurator page.
• Create classes of products and assign them to the groups;
• Clicking on the Add product class button on the right will open the window;

2.3.1.

• Fill in the following fields of the General tab on this page:
• Name – type the name of the class (example: Classic dresses, Elegant dresses, etc.)
• Group – assign class to some group it's a required condition).
• Compatible classes - tick the boxes of the classes you want to be compatible with the class you are editing.
• For example, wedding dress “Classic” is available for purchase only with the ring “Classic” and shoes “Classic”. The other variants will be disabled in the customer's area.
• Notice that if you tick the boxes on the Editing class page of the first step, the customer will be able to start choosing either from step 1 or from step 3.
• Specify the compatible classes for each of your three steps.
• Status - choose the desired status.

2.3.2.

• Open the Products tab on the page.
• Click on the Add products link, select the desired products in the opened window and click on the Add products and close button.
• Click on the Save button.

Part 3.

In order to make a product configurable:

• Go to the Catalog tab;
• Follow the Products link;
• Open the details page of the necessary product (click on the product name link or Edit button).
• Go to the Add-ons tab on the product details page;
• Tick the check-box opposite to the Configurable option – this will enable it;





• Click on the Save button;
• Open the appeared Configuration tab;
• Click on the Add product group button;
• In the opened window choose the groups you've just created in Product configurator add-on in the drop-down list (Wedding dress, Wedding shoes, Wedding rings, for example);
• Click on the Add button;
• Repeat as many times as needed;
• In the Product groups section tick the Required check box for groups which will be required;
• Choose which products will be selected by default in the Default configuration products select box.
• Click on the Save button.