How to integrate add-ons to products for customers to choose from?

[katharinab]

Relatively new to Shopify: we have one pillar product and our customer can decide what add-ons they want to choose for the delivery. Example: a home garden starter set and you can choose 3 out of 6 different seed packages we will send you with the starter package. Is there something like a dropdown-option for product pages to make the add-ons selectable out of our inventory, so that we have an overview what they choose and how much we still have left? I don't get the differences between variants and options and don't know how to approach this.

Thank you.

[Tiber]

Options are the individual selections(Orange) that make up the variant(Green). You can only have 3 options for a product. If you are allowing customers to select 3/6 seed addons, it would probably be best to create a product for each seed addon - to keep track of inventory and add code to the  garden starter page that would allow the customer to select seeds they want and then add them to cart.