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Kit settings
A kit is a product made up of other products, its components. The Kit group decides whether a kit that is ordered may be fulfilled by picking its components when no pre-built kit is in stock. Find the setting under Admin › Settings › Kit. For how levels work, see Settings; for kits in general see Kits and Kit orders.
Kit to order
| Key | kit.kit_to_order |
| Type | On/off |
| Default | On |
| Conditions | None |
| Account lookup | The product, then the current account |
When set to true allow ordering of kit products on order lines to be split in components. The system default is true.
This setting exists on two levels:
- On the product (see Product settings). When it has a value there, that value is used for that kit.
- On the account (this page). Used for every kit product that has no value of its own.
On: kits are built to order
When an order line for a kit is allocated, Boxture first looks for pre-built kits in stock. If there are none (or not enough), it splits the kit into its components and allocates the components instead: the order line gets an item for each component unit, which is picked and packed like a normal product.
This setting also affects availability: the available quantity of a kit includes the number of kits that can be built from the available components (the lowest number over all components). That number is what is shown as available, used in allocation and reported to sales channels.
Typical use: gift sets or bundles that are assembled at the packing table from stock items.
Off: only pre-built kits
The kit is only allocated from pre-built kit inventory. If no kits are in stock, the line goes to backorder (or is cancelled, depending on Backorder allowed), even if all components are available. Buildable kits are not counted as available inventory, except on kit orders, which build kits from components on purpose.
Typical use: kits that are assembled in advance by a kitting team and stocked as finished goods.
Combined with Allow kit to inventory
If kits are never stocked as finished goods, also switch off Allow kit to inventory; then leave Kit to order on, because there will never be pre-built kits to allocate.