Letting users create customized Bundles in Magento.

Question

We are building an e-commerce site where users can create their own bundles with products of their choice. Other users can then buy these bundles.

Please guide me as to how a bundle can be created based on the products selected by user and store this bundle. From whatever little I have read, I can create a module which will do this. Is this the right approach, or is their any other way to do it. I have gone through Alan's post to create modules, but still my magento knowledge is limited.

I am new to magento, and a newbie programmer (hence this is my first post on stackoverflow), any detailed description will greatly help me.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Isn't a shopping cart a user bundle by definition?

• You can save the order information and create bundled items from that
• Create an administration module that parses the information from orders and chooses automatically the most selected group of packages and creates automatically a product based on that.
• If you want to involve the user that is more work for the CRM than for Magento, allowing the user to create bundle products and save them.

Update From your comments I see 2 ways of solving this issue

1. with the help of the checkout and order object - when a selection is saved.
2. without any connection with the checkout process you'll build a frontend module that will save independently a bunch of products and will transform the selection into a backend bundle product that will be later available to all users. Steps to do towards this approach
   • build the interface to let the user select several products
   • make a save action that will grab the currently selected products from a cookie or somewhere and tranform that in the background in a product.
   • save the product and reindex the site to have the product available

Answer 2

We have a Magento Module that will allow you to create such a bundle coming out in the next couple weeks. Check in to see when its available.

http://store.delorumcommerce.com/magento-package-builder.html