Filterable Grouped Products

Filterable Grouped Products

This extension takes the grief out of not being able to use multiselect type attributes to create configurable products. Instead, you create grouped products which contain drop-down menu(s) that allow your customers to narrow down the list. Another advantage to using Filterable Grouped Products over Configurable products is that when you need to change the price of an item, you only have to update it one place instead of two.

Example: Let's say you have a t-shirt product that is available in sizes Small, Medium, and Large, and in the color Red, a drop down menu will be automatically created above your grouped product box. When a customer makes a selection from the drop-down menu(s), any of the associated products that do not have the particular size or other attribute chosen will disappear from the list. If the size "Large" is selected, then "Small" and "Medium" associated products will vanish.

Because all sizes of the shirt in the example above only come in the color red, a color filter will not be created because it is unnecessary. Filters are only created when the associated products have different attributes.

The extension also has a feature that displays the associated products in alphabetical/numerical order by SKU. With a small change to one line in one file, you can choose to order the associated products by a different attribute such as title or simply set the sort order back to Magento's default display order. (many people requested a feature to do this so we included it.)

One of the best aspects of this extension is that it works with both Select and Multiselect Attributes. And yes, multiple options of a multiselect attribute can be selected on a product and it will still work.