Glossary Item Box
Overview
Option quantity fields can be used to allow your customer to specify how many of a particular option they want to order. For example, suppose you have a product that is a computer. You may want to add options that allow them to specify how many hard drives they want, and of what size.
If you assign price(s) to an option and enable the quantity field for that option, the price of the option is multiplied by the quantity chosen, and multiplied again by the quantity specified for the product itself.
Example:
In the example above, the base price of the computer is $895. The option quantity field appears below the "500 GB" choice, with the label "# of drives". The customer chose (2) 500 GB hard drives at $149/each. That brings the total for this computer to $1193.00. If they then change the product's Quantity field to 2, the total for this product is going to be $2386.
How to Enable Option Quantities
Hiding Checkboxes
Checkbox options are unique in that they are the only ones that directly represent a ON/OFF or YES/NO choice. By default, if you enable the quantity field for a checkbox option, it will appear in the store like this:
In this instance, the checkbox is redundant. You can use the quantity field alone to indicate if the option is chosen or not. To do this, simply check the Hide Checkbox field on the option record and the checkbox field will be hidden from view:
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