Hello!
We are using Magento 2.0.7 and now we want to create products in our store but we do not know what kind of product we should create in backend (simple product, etc...)
Imagine you have ...
... one specific Plant X
... Planters with combination of different colors and sizes (Planter Small with color red, Planter Small with color blue, ...)
... categories 'Small', 'Medium', 'Large' (should be displayed on frontend)
On category page Small we want to show the Plant X with Planters of size Small with the option to change the color.
(This could be solved by creating a simple product for every combination 'Plant X + Planter Small Red', 'Plant X + Planter Small Blue', ... and then create a configurable product 'Plant X' with Color option)
This is working pretty nice, but then we could have a problem with our Inventory because we need to have each combination of this simple product on stock.
This is what we are looking for:
- 5 plants (same plant) on stock
- 10 Planters of each variation (= 10 Small Red, 10 Small Blue, ...)
When a customer buys 5 plants of whatever combination, all of the other combinations using the "out-of-stock plant" should be displayed as out-of-stock.
This way we don't run into Inventory problems if too many customers order more plants than we have on stock.
(But you should not be able to change or choose the plant on product details page! Only color should be choosable. Same behavior as described above with simple products and configurable product)
Is there any solution (plugin or maybe out-of-the-box magento feature) to implement a behavior like this?
