Color Swatches Plus is a Magento extension for configurable products. With Color Swatches Plus your customers can see how a product looks like in different colors, shapes or designs. Color Swatches Plus enables switching of the product images and prices on the fly. The plug-in uses the Magento product base images and thumbnails and supports many configurable attributes, one thumbnail and one image per product. For the images and the thumbnails you can use any pictures and have them in a size of your choice. Each product may have a different price, which is updated automatically, when you switch between the simple products. The product image can be magnified with the standard zoom in Magento. Clicking on the "Add to Cart" button causes the selected product to be added to the cart with the correct attribute values and price. You can set the thumbnail of the simple product to be shown in the shopping cart on checkout. You can use your own custom set of thumbnails.
The product configuration required by this Magento extension is the same like the standard configuration of configurable products in Magento.
Compatible with Magento 1.4, Magento 1.5, Magento 1.6, Magento 1.7.
The extension comes with detailed installation instructions. This software is encrypted and requires an
ionCube loader to be installed.
The functionality of this extension is improved and extended by the following Magento extensions:
This extension uses the images and thumbnails of the simple products in Magento. If using these images and thumbnails is not an explicit requirement for your store or the store of your customer, please consider the following extensions:
Color Custom Options (CCO) is the only extension for products with custom options. It uses image overlaying in order to build the compound image.
The latest extensions for configurable products are
- Color Last (CL)
- Color All (CA)
- Color All Preloaded (CAP)
Color Last (CL) replaces the following extensions:
- Color Swatches (CS)
- Color Swatches Plus (CSP)
- Color Views (CV)
- Color Views Plus (CVP)
Color All (CA) /
Color All Preloaded (CAP) replace the following extensions:
- Color Swatches Plus with Thumbnails (CSPT)
- Color Thumbnails (CT)
Color Last (CL) uses the product images and thumbnails of the simple products in Magento and shows the available thumbnails after a value has been selected from all the prior drop-downs.
Color All (CA) and
Color All Preloaded (CAP) use their own images saved in the configurable product itself.