Overview video
0:00 Variable kits - what they do
0:03 A variable kit is a single product that holds several other products, such as a branded promo pack. The customer chooses which items to include and how many of each, and adds their logo once for the whole pack.
0:16 On the kit's page, each item is listed with its price. The customer ticks the items they want, sets the quantities, and can give the pack a name. Here they've chosen a mug, fifty tote bags and a notebook, and the total updates as they go.
0:31 The pack goes into the basket as one line, with its name and total. Each item inside it is still a separate job for production.
0:40 Each item is a personalised product. In the first one, the customer uploads their logo and types their company name.
0:49 When they open the next item, the logo and company name are already in place. A shared variable set carries them across every item in the same pack, so they're only entered once.
1:00 It's built from three standard features: a kit product with optional items, MegaEdit products for each item, and a shared variable set for the logo and name. The step-by-step guide on this page shows how to set it up.
Step-by-step video
0:00 Set up a variable kit with one shared logo
0:04 In this tutorial we'll build a variable kit: a branded promo pack where your customer picks the items they want and uploads their logo once. It uses three things together. A kit product is the pack, each item in it is a personalised product, and a shared variable set carries the logo and company name across every item. Before you start, ask Customer Support to enable the Custom and Kit product types on your storefront.
0:28 In the admin area, go to Catalogue, Product Types, MegaEdit, then MegaEdit Variables, and add a variable set. Give it a name, and set the context to Shopping Cart Group. This is the important setting: values entered in one item are shared with every other item in the same pack.
0:46 Now add two variables to the set: an image variable for the logo, and a text variable for the company name. Set each one's context to Session, so the value stays shared while the customer works through their pack.
1:00 Each item the customer can choose is its own personalised product, with its own price, artwork and print area. Here we have a mug, a tote bag, a pen and a notebook. Each template has a logo field and a company name field.
1:14 Open each item's MegaEdit configuration, go to the Variables tab, tick your variable set and save. Do this for every item, because the logo only flows between products that use the same set.
1:28 Next, open each item in the editor as an administrator. Select the logo field, and in its options, under Variables, choose your set and the logo variable. Do the same for the company name field, then save it as the product default.
1:43 Now create the pack itself. In Product Management, click Add new, enter a name, set the product type to Custom, and the custom product type to Kit. Give it a picture, a description and a category, like any other product.
1:57 Go to Custom Products. Your pack is listed with the type Kit. Click Edit to open its kit settings.
2:04 Select your items in the available products list, and move them across into assigned products with the arrow button.
2:12 Each assigned item has its own row of options. Tick Optional on every item. That is what makes the kit variable: the customer chooses which items to include. Tick Can change quantity, and show the price and short description so the item table explains itself.
2:29 Tick Enable grouping, so the items appear in the basket as one pack, and tick Group Name available on the landing page, so the customer can name their pack. Then save.
2:40 Here's what your customer sees. They tick the items they want, set quantities, here fifty tote bags, name the pack, and add it to the basket.
2:49 The basket shows the pack as one line with its total. Expand it to see each item. Each one opens its own editor from the basket.
2:59 In the first item, the customer uploads their logo, drags it onto the logo area and types their company name, then saves.
3:07 And when they open the next item, the logo and name are already in place. Nothing to upload again. They simply check it and save.
3:16 And that's it. Your customers build their own branded pack, add their logo once, and every item in the pack is ready for production. You'll find every step, with screenshots, in the step-by-step tab of this guide.
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