We will assume that you already have a simple product created. You can find a tutorial on how to do that here.

For our example here the product we will use will be a customizable coffee mug.

First, go into your Magento admin panel and go to Catalog->Manage Products. Click on your newly added product to edit it. Now in the left hand menu, click the very bottom item, “Custom Options.”

Next, click “Add

New Option” and a form will appear for you to creat your first option.

Now enter a title, which will be the description of the option in the frontend. The first option we will give our users is to have their name printed on the coffee mug, so in the title field we will put “Name.” In the dropdown we will select the “Field” since we are allowing the customer to type their name in to be printed on the mug (We could also use “textarea” here but since the name will be a short string of text so a text field is more appropriate). You will now be given some options for the custom text option. In the price field we will put in the price that is added when the user chooses to add this option to their mug. We will also limit the number of characters allowed to 10 by putting 10 in the Max Characters field. At this point your custom option box should look like this:

Now hit “Save and Continue Edit”,  and click “Add New Option” to add another option.

Our next option wi

ll be the color of the mug, so type “color” in the title field. Now in the input type dropdown, we need an input type that gives the customer options to choose from, so we need to choose one under the “Select” category. We will choose radio buttons for this example, but any of the items under the “Select” category will work. Once our input type is selected, a table appears where we can add new choices for the option.  Click “Add New Row” and you will get a similar form to the one we saw when we created the text field in the first example. In the title field we will enter “red” and give it an additional price of 50 cents. Then we will go ahead and add another color option green with a cost of 25 cents. If you have followed our example up to this point the new option should look like this:

Now hit the “Save” button and go to the

frontend of the store. If you followed our example your product should look something like this:

Before using this method in your store to add options to products, it is important to understand the limitations of simple products. Inventory cannot be tracked for the options, only for the product, so you will not be able to specify in the system how many red mugs you have in inventory as opposed to green mugs. Custom options for simple products are best used for products that are manufactured to order. If you need to track the inventory of the different types of the product, a better method is to use  Configurable Products.

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Both of the above are valid PHP and will work fine, in most cases. However, because the getItemTitle() method

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You can read more about the bug here.

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