I'm looking for a cart that has a good script for selecting what you want

eg the site sells a case for a mobile phone, obviously the case will fit 1000's of phones.

the site at the mo (actinic) is organised by phone/model so the matching case is duplicated 1000 times. you browse to your phone and get a list of accessories

what i want to do is have the case listed once, but the site opens with drop downs select accessory, select phone model , brings up the case.

any suggestions?

You can do all sorts of mad things in InterPRISE.

I have been struggling with certain aspects of it recently, but It can do 'pc builder' type things and 'pre assembled' type things. It supports related items, customer also bought items and accessories for an item. All with excellent stock control.

The downside of course is that data entry is a bitch, and its expensive. A couple of major turnoffs.

You could try your phones in interSPIRE too. It has fairly decent support for related items and optional items. It also supports same product-in-many-categories scenario, to avoid any duplicates.

additionally, you can do this in actinic:

Create a variable called 'Associated1'. Type the reference number of the case in it. Place it in your product template.

- loop all products
- match the product ref
- show the product.

Make another one for associated2, associated3, associated4 etc.

This is VERY SLOW to build and render templates, becasue you're looping all the products a few times, but it does mean you only need a single product, and you can have lots of associations.