As of 7.4.0, you have the ability to set up multiple associated products under a product "umbrella", set pricing for a range of relationships, and have complete control over the product selling process.
These umbrella products serve as parent products which can house multiple individual or child products. For example, perhaps you sell cancer awareness sweatshirts that say “Fight Like a Girl” on them and you sell them in multiple sizes (e.g., S, M, L) and colors (e.g., Pink and Green). Each of the individual shirts would be under the cancer awareness sweatshirt parent umbrella product and the colors and sizes would make up the individual products. It is a recommended best practice to begin by setting up the individual products before creating the umbrella product. This process will save you time by immediately allowing you to choose the products to assign to an umbrella product instead of going back and setting up each one and then assigning them individually.
Umbrella products should not be set up for group purchases, which is a functionality of Corporate and Staff Management. Corporate and Staff Management allows you to assign a group manager to a roster from the back office and then that group manager is able to manage and purchase products for his/her roster online using the Corporate and Staff Management controls. See Configuring the Corporate and Staff Management Controls for more information.
See Also:
· Setting Up Umbrella Products
· Creating Individual Products Under an Umbrella Product
· Creating an Umbrella Product