The Product Designer Extension for Magento 2 serves as a sophisticated tool, facilitating customers in seamlessly personalizing their selected products. A notable attribute is its seamless compatibility with both simple and configurable products, offering an expansive spectrum of customization possibilities.

An integral feature is the extension's adaptable text customization, allowing customers to effortlessly incorporate multiple text elements with diverse font faces. This adaptability ensures meticulous personalization, aligning harmoniously with each customer's distinct vision for their customized product.

Taking customization, a step further, the extension empowers users by providing the capacity to vary font sizes and experiment with an array of creative elements such as color, shadows, outlines, and rotations. This bestows upon users a heightened level of creative control, resulting in an authentically distinctive and personalized customization experience.

Beyond text, customers can seamlessly upload new images, seamlessly integrating graphics, logos, or other images to craft a product that is genuinely one-of-a-kind. The inclusion of clipart functionality adds an extra layer of creativity, offering a diverse selection of pre-designed clipart to augment and elevate designs.

Customers benefit from the added convenience of seamlessly adding these personalized products to their cart, all while having the ability to preview them. Moreover, the extension allows users to align text, uploaded images, and clipart in various directions, providing an additional layer of customization options and enriching the overall personalization experience.

Administrators can have the capability to define a designated area within the product image where customers can customize their chosen products. Additionally, administrators have the authority to curate and add specific font faces and clipart images that are made available for customers to utilize in their customization process.

In essence, the Product Designer Extension for Magento 2 distinguishes itself through its seamless compatibility with both simple and configurable products. With its intuitive interface and an extensive array of features, it not only facilitates but empowers customers to effortlessly translate their creative ideas into personalized products, fostering a profound sense of ownership and individuality

Stores -> Configuration -> Pits Configuration -> Product Designer

Figure 1: Admin panel configuration

Figure 1. displays the admin configurations of the extension, which specifies location or placement of the Product Designer feature. The fields are: 

Figure 2: Price Type – Free

When price type is set as free, zero cost is incurred as design fee (Figure 2).

Figure 3: Price Type –Fixed

When the price type is set as fixed, the admin can set a fixed price regardless of the type of object (text, clipart, image) added (Figure 3).

Figure 4: Price Type - Price per Object

When price type is set as Per Object, the admin can set individual price for per text, per image and per clipart addition and design fee is cumulative of these prices (Figure 4).

Admins can set up a scheduled task called a cron job to automatically clear out customization files stored in the quote media folders. This is particularly useful when customers save customized images without placing an order, preventing unnecessary storage consumption in the pub/media directory. It's a straightforward way for administrators to manage storage efficiently and keep the media storage area in Magento running smoothly. There are three fields under Cron Settings tab (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Cron Settings 

Administrators can set the font faces and clipart through the Catalog menu in the admin panel (Figure 6). Within this menu, a dedicated submenu for the Product Designer is available. This submenu includes distinct links for Font, Clipart Images, and Clipart Categories.

Figure 6: Product Designer Menu

When administrators select the Font link, they are redirected to the Font Details page, where specific details and configurations related to fonts can be managed. Similarly, selecting Clipart leads administrators to the Clipart Details page, offering a centralized space for clipart-related settings. Additionally, administrators can explore the Clipart Categories link to navigate to the Clipart Categories page, where categories associated with clipart are organized and can be modified as needed. This structured navigation within the Catalog menu streamlines the administration of font and clipart elements, providing a user-friendly experience for managing product design aspects.

Figure 7: Design Fonts Page

The admin can see the added fonts in this page. The font name and the file path of font face added, and the status of the font is shown. The action in Figure 7 can be set as Delete to multi delete the fonts. The admin can also edit the font by clicking the action ’Edit’. And selecting “Add New Font” above will redirect to an UI form which is for adding new fonts. The admin can set a new font by setting its name and its status, upload a font file with supported font extensions of ttf, woff, woff2, otf and saving the font by clicking Save Font (Figure 8). The fonts with status enabled are shown in frontend. If the fonts are not added or all fonts are disabled, ‘Arial’ Font is set as default font on frontend.

Figure 8: Add Font

Similarily, admin can direct to clipart image category details page (Figure 9) from Product Designer submenu in Catalog menu. 

Figure 9: ClipArt Categories

Figure 10: Add ClipArt Category

And selecting “Add New ClipArt Category” above will redirect to an UI form which is for adding new clip art category. The admin can set a new clip art category by setting its name and its status and saving the font by clicking Save Clip Art Category (Figure 10).The clipart categories with status enabled are shown in frontend.

The admin has the capability to associate clip art with each predefined clipart category. The admin can direct to design cliparts page (Figure 11) from Product Designer submenu in Catalog menu

Figure 11: Design ClipArts

And selecting “Add New ClipArt” above will redirect to an UI form which is for adding new clip art. The admin can set a new one by setting its name and its status, upload an image with supported font extensions of png , jpg, jpeg and saving the clipart by clicking Save ClipArt (Figure 12). The cliparts with status enabled are shown in frontend. 

Figure 12: Add New ClipArt

Catalog -> Products 

Clicking on the "Edit" button of a product will navigate the administrator to the product edit page. On this page, there exists a section named 'Product Designer Options.' Within this section, an attribute named 'Allow Product Design' is provided, allowing administrators to enable or disable the product design feature in Magento 2. This attribute serves as a toggle, giving administrators the flexibility to control whether the product is open for customization through the product design functionality. (Figure 13).

Figure 13 – Product Edit Page with Product Designer Options enabled

Then, the administrator is required to navigate to the "Images and Videos section (Figure 14) to define the prescribed area within the product images (Figure 15).

Note: It's crucial to note that this prescribed area is configured outside the boundaries of the product image.

Figure 14: Image and Videos Section

Figure 15: Image Area Before Setting Up for Customization

To visualize and manage this configuration, administrators must click on the button labelled ‘Set Design Area’ as shown in Figure 15 at which point the prescribed area becomes visible. Administrators can accurately define and fine-tune the prescribed area within which customers can customize their chosen products and save the Product by clicking on ‘Save’ (Figure 16).

Figure 16: Image Area After Setting Up for Customization

Note: For configurable products, the administrator must follow a two-step process to enable product design. Initially, the product design feature needs to be enabled for the parent configurable product. Then, for each child simple product where customization is required, the administrator should individually enable the product design feature and set the customisation area in images. 

Figure 17: Admin Sales Order View Page with Customization Details

After the placement of an order, all customization files, relevant information, and uploaded images of the item are compiled and compressed into a zip file (Product Customisation Files). This zip file is then made accessible and viewable on the admin sales order view page (Figure 17).

When customers visit a product page with product design enabled, they will see a button (Figure 18). Clicking this button opens a popup (Figure 19) where customers can personalize and customize the product to their preferences.

Figure 18: Product Design feature is enabled in the frontend

Figure 19: Popup for Product Customization

Figure 20: Customizing product by adding text and clipart, uploading image

The designing fee is an extra charge for customization, and its amount is based on how it is set up in the backend price settings. And it could be free or fixed pricing and pricing per object addition.

Figure 21: Adding Text

Figure 22: Uploading image

Figure 23: Adding clip art

Figure 24: Text Properties

After saving the customized images, customers are presented with a preview on the frontend (Figure 25). This allows them to confirm their design choices before proceeding to add the product to the cart.

Note : Customers retain the flexibility to continue editing customised products until the final confirmation before adding to cart.

Figure 25: Preview

Figure 26: Minicart

Customized Product Images show the two images customized and the product customization information section offers a detailed description of any modified text which is in pdf format, specifics about selected clipart and uploaded image in both customized images (Figure 27). The price gets updated from $20.00 to $35.79 with the addition of design fee $15.79. The minicart image has been changed to customized image (Figure 26).

Figure 27: Product Customisation Info

Figure 28: Cart page

Figure 29: Order Summary in Checkout Page

Figure 30: Customer Order View Page 

Customized product images and info is shown in cart page, order summary in checkout page and customer order view page (Figure 28, Figure 29 and Figure 30 respectively).

For configurable products: 

Figure 31: Product Customization Based on Configurations

For configurable products, customization is limited to the specific set of configurations for which product design is enabled and image coordinates are set. Customers can only customize the product within the predefined configurations that have been designated for product design. (Figure 31).

Note: This extension supports only simple and configurable products and its child products. 

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