Grouped product with fixed volumes of subitems

Question

I work on a Magento site that has a number of simple products. There is also a "holiday package" that combines several simple products at a reduced price:

• 6 points A
• 2 points B
• 2 points C
• 2 points D

The grouped product type is pretty close to what I need - it allows each item to track its own stock, and when it comes time to send and evaluate packets, it tries to pack containers using the weight / volume of each individual item. ( This aspect of delivery is very important , since we need to pack boxes as efficiently as possible - using a simple product with an estimated size for all items may not work).

However, we do not want the customer to be able to choose the amount of each item. Instead, the customer should be asked to choose how many holiday packages they need.

Is a grouped product a better approach? Is there a better way to handle this?

Answer 1

In Magento 1.5.1, the best solution should be a bundle product. There you can determine the price, quantity for each item in the backend. You can block the user to change the quantity for these items, and not for the bundle product (you can too if you want, but this is not your need here).

We do this for some of our products. Check the screenshot to see a configuration example.