Hello,
We are preparing an overhaul of our products catalog, and I want your suggestion for our product's custom fields.
We run a car accessories shop, and we want to designate the compatible car manufacturers for each of our products.
A good way to achieve this would be to have a preset list of car manufacturers, and then for each product, select one or more of the manufacturers which are compatible. (like you would add tags from a list)
It is preferred to not have to type the manufacturers again for every product (to avoid misspellings).
We also want to be able to use a 3rd party Filtering solution (e.g. Custom Filters Pro), to filter products suitable per car manufacturer.
Important note: the example given here is NOT about the manufacturer of the product (of which there is one), but for the car manufacturers the product is compatible with (of which there can be many)
Any suggestion on a good way to implement this, is very welcome!
Thanks
EDIT#1:
Another possible way to do this, would be to use product Categories instead of custom fields. So we can create a Category for every car manufacturer, and even add nested sub-categories for specific car models.
Not sure of the drawbacks of this method though...