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I’m building a shop that will be primarily selling bathroom and kitchen fans.

These products, naturally, comes in different model, sizes and so on. Most of them are available in like 3-9 different types (one with manual on/off switch, one with a movement sensor, one with overrun timer, one with overrun timer and movement sensor and so forth… very, VERY exciting stuff I tell you). All the types of a model have the same physical dimensions, but other specs. such as noise level, power consumption and a few others tend to differ.

I figure that I want the customer to be able to be able to pick a certain model and then which type, so I’ve been experimenting with configurable products a bit, but it doesn’t quite do the trick, since I’m only shown the “Additional Information” for the main product (the configurable product itself) and not for the sub types.
If I make each type of every model into a separate product, I will get the features I want, but it won’t be as neatly categorized and I’m afraid that the whole shop will drown in similar looking products, with only minor differences.

Any bright ideas?

Im having the very same issue. Configurable products arent doing the trick for me, grouped does, but the page is hugh.. what did you do?