Light commercial vs full commercial spec (EN 957), how do I model this in Magento?
Three product tiers in fitness equipment:
- Home / consumer, designed for 1-2 users, 1-2 hours daily use. Lightest frame, shortest warranty (1-3 yr). Example: NordicTrack Commercial 1750 home treadmill.
- Light commercial, apartment-building gyms, small condo gyms, hotel rooms (in-room exercise bikes). 4-8 hours daily use. Medium frame. EN 957 Class S (semi-commercial). Example: most apartment-gym treadmills.
- Full commercial, gym chains (Life Time, Equinox), hotels with mid-tier amenity gyms, corporate gyms. 8-16 hours daily use. EN 957 Class S (Studio) or Class I (Institutional). Heavy-duty frame, 5-10 yr warranty. Example: Life Fitness, Cybex, Matrix.
Modeling in Magento:
- Attribute set per tier, home / light / full each with the right attributes (max user weight, EN 957 class, warranty duration, motor HP for cardio).
- Category tree mirrors tiers,
/home-gym,/light-commercial,/full-commercial. Customer-segment-based visibility: full-commercial only visible to B2B logged-in buyer-reps; home tier visible to anyone. - EN 957 spec sheet PDF per SKU, auto-generated from product attributes via Magento + DOMPDF or wkhtmltopdf. B2B procurement teams want a downloadable spec sheet, not a webpage.
- Pricing rule, full-commercial often has volume discounts (10+ units = 12% off, 25+ = 18%, 50+ = 22%). Magento cart-price rules handle this natively.