Best way to collect backer choices the fastest across large item variety?
I'm going to launch a campaign with 9 different reward items, all equally priced. The reward tiers are going to be "chose one" from the 9, or "choose three" with a slight price break.
But these are handmade items, so I want to cap the total amount of items across the total of all of the different designs and reward tiers, and I want to collect the selections to begin manufacture as soon as possible.
If I understand things correctly, I cannot have the single and bundle tiers pulling from the same 'bucket' of reward items. So, correct me if I'm wrong but I can say '60 items max regardless of design' and then the singles or bundles selected reduce that total bucket amount to zero. I'm fine with guessing and setting caps for each of these teirs, if I have to.
But I would really like to be able to collect the selected item as soon as possible. I can't create tiers with every possible combination of three, and sending out the backer survey post campaign closing will add a lag of time. And if I create items for each desgin, then I have to set possible arbitrary caps for each one? What if design #2 is way more popular than design #8?
Thoughts?