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john123
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Hi,
I am currently configuring ProductCart v3.12 for my existing website.
Can I setup different fixed price selections for a product so that the customer would have 3 choices.
For example:
The price for 1 item is $39.95
The price for 4 items is $149.95
The price for 6 items is $199.95
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Hamish
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Hi,
Indeed you can. See Page 191 of the V3 user guide - section on "Quantity Discounts". If the FIXED bit is important (Only 1, 4 or 6 items) look at product options. If you have a lot of these products it would be worth looking at the Apparel Add-on as that's all about easily managing a range of options for each product. |
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john123
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Hi,
Thanks. I was doing some tests with the product options but I realize that in my case the options can only be applied after the person adds the item to their cart and then selects the link to go into the product deatils page. Since I am configuring PC with my existing website, is their anyway of having the list box selection on my HTML page so that it can be added to the cart in one step?
Also, I noticed doing it this way the quantity does not get reflected to have a 4 units or 6 units. So my inventory would be off. Am I doing this correctly?
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Hamish
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Hi John123,
Oops - Of course, your correct, using Options is a-bad-idea if your using stock levels in (or from) ProductCart, as the the software has no idea that there is a link between the text of the option selected and the quantity ordered. When you say "with my existing website" - Are you using the/a full ProductCart page, or have you added code to your existing pages to add the products to the cart? |
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john123
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Yes to your second question - I have added code to my existing HTML page so that the products get added to the cart. The inventory is not the biggest concern but it would be nice to have the correct quantiity being purchased. I may purchase the Quickbooks add-on in the future and having the order contain the proper amount of units would be helpful when I import.
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Hamish
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I assume you links are hard coded in that case.
Is the code your using based on the the 'Add to Cart from Anywhere' code from the Early Impact support pages? (I think that's where it is anyway, perhaps the developers corner). From memory I believe it uses a small form including a quantity field. You code put several versions on the page for the different quantities - with the quantity value pre-filled & hidden on each perhaps? |
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john123
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Actually, I got the code in the dreamweaver addon of productcart. It created a link for me. I was just thinking if product cart can provide a product group of that contains different quantities and a fixed price.
I can create a 1 product link, 4 products and then 6 products but that would mean I would need to have 3 different inventory items for the same product. Is this what you mean?
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Hamish
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I was thinking that you should set up "Quantity Discounts" and then create individual links to the same product, but passing the quantity as part of the link. If you set up 3 different products you would end up with a similar problem with inventory levels.
One thing to be aware of, is that when customers have gone to the cart pages there will be, on various pages, links, which may take them to other parts of the ProducCart side of your site, for example the "Contine Shopping" link on the cart page. Also, if you have a significant number of products, then managing all the links will potentially become time consuming and difficult. |
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Would the Apparel shopping cart help in this situation? If so, I assume that it would not work on my HTML page?
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Hamish
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Hi,
The Apparel Add-on is really suitable when you are selling products that have variations, such as size / color etc. Each variation is, in effect, a separate product with a separate SKU & stock level. For example, if it was rugs, you may have several different shapes/sizes and color variations, but you could show them all on a single page of your store. From what I understand of your requirement the product your selling (in this case) is the same product, with just the quantity varying, so the versions should share the SKU and the stock level. Can you give a link to the store and/or explain more about why you need the fixed variations in quantity? You can do so via PM if you wish. |
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