Grouped Vs Bundle Products

Grouped Products

A grouped product is essentially a selection of simple products displayed equally on the product page, each with quantity boxes so the user can decide how many of each they want before they add to cart.The products displayed are normally of a similar nature (e.g. a plate and a saucer)

Examples

  

• Tablewewar Set - Imagine a product called ‘tablewear set’, and you can decide how many plates, dishes, cups and saucers you want to buy as part of the set.
• Box of Pens – Similar to the tablewear set, another example of a grouped product may be for purchasing pens for a company. A grouped product is great for when you need to buy in bulk. The product may be Biro pens, and you can decide how many of your biro pens are red, blue, green and black.
• Set of Knives – This is an example used on Magento’s own website and nicely demonstrates a grouped product in all its glory. You can purchase a set of Chef’s knives and you can decide how many of each size you want in the set.

 

Bundle Products

A bundle product should viewed as a product you get to customise to your requirements. You choose what goes with it and how high/low spec you want it to be. This gives customers the freedom to pretty much ‘build’ their ideal product. The products displayed are normally not very similar (e.g. a hard drive and a mouse mat).
 

Examples

•     Tennis Racket – The name and make of the tennis racket is the bundle product, but you have to build your racket as a bundle. So you choose the grip size, followed by the strings you want. A nice custom option box could be thrown in to determine the tension of the strings. You can also throw in a racket bag and extra grips if you wish.
•     Build your Computer – This is the most famous bundle product on Magento’s Demo Store. When you build your computer you can customise everything including what size processor you want, which monitor you want, the inclusion of extra graphics card etc, until you have

 

Magento admin grid add from and to search in admin grid

Magento admin grid add from and to search in admin grid

$this->addColumn("designer_id", array(
                "header" => Mage::helper("Module")->__("User ID"),
                "align" =>"right",
                "width" => "50px",
                'type'  => 'currency',
                "index" => "user_id",
                ));

                'type'  => 'currency', is used to search for integer or decimal type

$this->addColumn("created_date", array(
                "header" => Mage::helper("Module")->__("Modified Date"),
                "align" =>"center",
                "width" => "100px",
                'type' => 'datetime',
                "index" => "mod_date",
                ));

                'type' => 'datetime', is ued to seach date time range

Magento admin grid mass delete, mass status change checkbox option

Magento admin grid mass delete, mass status change checkbox option

In your Grid.php add
protected function _prepareMassaction()
    {
        $this->setMassactionIdField('Module_id');
        $this->getMassactionBlock()->setFormFieldName('banners');

        $this->getMassactionBlock()->addItem('delete', array(
             'label'    => Mage::helper('Module')->__('Delete'),
             'url'      => $this->getUrl('*/*/massDelete'),
             'confirm'  => Mage::helper('Module')->__('Are you sure?')
        ));

        $statuses = Mage::getSingleton('Module/status')->getOptionArray();

        array_unshift($statuses, array('label'=>'', 'value'=>''));
        $this->getMassactionBlock()->addItem('status', array(
             'label'=> Mage::helper('Module')->__('Change status'),
             'url'  => $this->getUrl('*/*/massStatus', array('_current'=>true)),
             'additional' => array(
                    'visibility' => array(
                         'name' => 'status',
                         'type' => 'select',
                         'class' => 'required-entry',
                         'label' => Mage::helper('Module')->__('Status'),
                         'values' => $statuses
                     )
             )
        ));
        return $this;
    }
-----------------------------------------------------------
in your adminhtml-> XXXcontroller .php file
 public function massDeleteAction() {
        $ids = $this->getRequest()->getParam('Module');
        if(!is_array($ids)) {
            Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session')->addError(Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('Please select Banner(s)'));
        } else {
            try {
                foreach ($ids as $id) {
                    $banners = Mage::getModel('Module/Module')->load($id);
                    $banners->delete();
                }
                Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session')->addSuccess(
                    Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__(
                        'Total of %d record(s) were successfully deleted', count($ids)
                    )
                );
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session')->addError($e->getMessage());
            }
        }
        $this->_redirect('*/*/index');
    }
   
    public function massStatusAction()
    {
        $bannersIds = $this->getRequest()->getParam('module');
        if(!is_array($ids)) {
            Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session')->addError($this->__('Please select Banner(s)'));
        } else {
            try {
                foreach ($ids as $id) {
                    $banners = Mage::getSingleton('Module/Module')
                        ->load($id)
                        ->setStatus($this->getRequest()->getParam('status'))
                        ->setIsMassupdate(true)
                        ->save();
                }
                $this->_getSession()->addSuccess(
                    $this->__('Total of %d record(s) were successfully updated', count($ids))
                );
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                $this->_getSession()->addError($e->getMessage());
            }
        }
        $this->_redirect('*/*/index');
    }

Magento in admin html backend add a coloumn Action

Magento in admin html backend add a coloumn Action

magento add action coloumn in admin  grid

Code

$this->addColumn('action',
                        array(
                            'header'    =>  Mage::helper('Module')->__('Action'),
                            'width'     => '100',
                            'type'      => 'action',
                            'getter'    => 'getId',
                            'actions'   => array(
                                array(
                                    'caption'   => Mage::helper('Module')->__('Edit'),
                                    'url'       => array('base'=> '*/*/edit'),
                                    'field'     => 'id'
                                )
                            ),
                            'filter'    => false,
                            'sortable'  => false,
                            'index'     => 'stores',
                            'is_system' => true,
                    ));

Biggest Magneto Programmers group on Facebook

Biggest Magneto Programmers group on Facebook


Biggest Magneto Programmers group on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/278585072228917

Magento Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request

Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request …..

There are two main reasons why you may get this error.

1. There is an actual problem with the server, resulting in the 503 error response. In this case, you should contact your hosting provider.

2. Your store has been put in maintenance mode. If Magento sees a file named maintenance.flag in the root directory, it will automatically redirect all requests to the default 503 error page. This can be used during upgrades, etc. to prevent users from accessing the store. The solution is, as already mentioned, to delete/rename the maintenance.flag file.

There might also be a good idea to create a more user friendly “maintenance page” than the 503 error, which is kind of misleading for customers.

Deleted file and removed cache.. and its working fine..

Magento use Tire Pricing or set rules for discuonts

Q
Tier Pricing for discunts

Answer
Hi,

Tier Pricing is a promotional tool provided by standard Magetno
It allows a store owner to price items differently for higher quantities.

1. In the Magento Admin Panel, navigate to Catalog > Manage Products.
2. Find the product that you want to add tier pricing to (or create a new product) and click Edit in the Action column.
3. Click on prices tab on the left
4. Click “add tier”

You will get tier tab with “web site”, “customer group”, “quantity”, “price”.
Make your choise. In price field you put price which makes 50% of your product cost. and this product will be sold with this discount provided that buyer puts in cart .....(make your choise in quantity tab) items.
More over you can stipulate the group of customers who are provided with the discount. For example - only registered customers.

If you want to spread and apply discount coupon you can have a look at GoMage LightCheckout for Magento it is one page checkout extension which is amoust bunch of useful extensions in one. By the way it is compatible with 1.5 Magento vesion.