Hi, my client has pendants that come with a standard chain length, but you can purchase a longer chain length for a little extra for each length. Right now it’s just set up as variants, but they would like to be able to track the stock better of pendants and chains.
What would you recommend as the easiest way to track of both the pendants and the chain length? I should state that they have many chains in the various length that they use for all pendants, and then the pendant has it’s own inventory if that makes sense.
Thanks
Separate products to have separate inventory, but it better be sure “easy” is the actual goal and not an XYproblem.
The approaches are very binary:
It’s either as variants on a single product, or completely separate products.
Then it’s either customizing the frontend to present separate complex products as a single simple product to the customer.
Or investing in backend automation/processes to present a single complex product into separate complex* products.
Or both.; optionally with backend inventory sync automations.
And that’s before considering multi-channel handling of singular products or multiple products.
Of course in decision making you’ll probably end up needing to read the above criteria list from the bottom up.
The only middle ground is now the new bundles system, which still relies on singular products.
Or custom-items generated for draft orders. Both come with their own baggage.
*simple would be poetic but no it’s not simple just because it’s on the backend