Variable WooCommerce Products, with different product types for variations [closed]

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 7 hours ago. Improve this question How would you go about changing the product type of a variable product's variation? Specifically I'd like to be able to change them from Simple to Grouped products, but I believe the solution would allow for any product type to be set if implemented well. The requirements I'm dealing with are as follows: Product 1 is a variable product Variation 1 and Variation 2 are variations of Product 1, and function identically to Grouped products. Each Variation has two or more components that are automatically set when the variation is chosen. Users can't pick and choose components within a variation, they just get all of them. Variable Product Variation Component Product 1 Variation 1 Component 1-1 Product 1 Variation 1 Component 1-2 Product 1 Variation 2 Component 2-1 Product 1 Variation 2 Component 2-2 Product 1 Variation 2 Component 2-3 In a nutshell- people purchase a variation, and they get delivered each of the components. The reason for my question is that each component must be shipped individually, and has it's own length/width/height/weight data that should be stored. I've researched this as much as I know how to but haven't been able to find a solution yet, whether that's adding a plugin or coding it in myself, but there isn't a lot of documentation supporting this out there. I'm currently looking into this post and seeing if it's what I need, I'm not sure at this stage though so I thought I'd ask here while I research. If this turns out to be the answer I'll update this post. https://www.cloudways.com/blog/woocommerce-product-variations/ I've looked into some plugin options and the most promising ones were from WPClever, specifically WPC Composite Products, WPC Linked Variations, WPC Product Bundles, or some combination in between. Unfortunately I haven't been able to set these up the way I'm envisioning. I also tried my hand at making a plugin to do this, but this isn't exactly my area of expertise so I haven't had any success yet. I have it set up so that each variation has a dropdown box where you can select 'Simple' or 'Grouped', but its purely a cosmetic option and implementing the backend mechanics will take longer than I have to get this done. It's fun and I'll probably continue working on it in the meantime, but I'm hoping there's another option out there that will assist me. Thanks for your help :)

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