Product pricing
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Topic: Product pricing
Posted By: john123
Subject: Product pricing
Date Posted: 18-July-2008 at 8:54am
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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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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 18-July-2008 at 9:07am
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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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 20-July-2008 at 12:42pm
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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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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 20-July-2008 at 1:12pm
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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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 20-July-2008 at 1:22pm
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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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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 20-July-2008 at 3:09pm
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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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 20-July-2008 at 6:00pm
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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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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:21am
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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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 7:46am
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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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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 7:59am
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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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 9:34am
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Hi,
Yes, you are correct, the product has the same SKU number and I want to share the same stock level.
These are the combinations I have been offering for some time and the shipping cost works out to be more cost effective. I am selling exotic juice and they come in cases of six. Most people buy one to try and if they like it buy 4 or 6 next time. It has been working for me and I do not really want to change it.
Using the "Product options" to customize that you suggested, I am able to have a list box selection but the customer needs to be in the product details location of the store. After they "add to the cart" from my HTML page, they need to click on the detils of the product within the shopping cart which will take them to the product detail page so they can see a list box of the 4 and 6 bottle selections. I find this to be a repeated step and confusing. Also, the inventory won't be counted for correctly but I do not think I have a choice. There should be a way in Product Cart to setup a link so that it provides different quantities of the same product?
The question I have now is can I provide that list box selection on my HTML page? Or does it only work in the product deatils page of the store?
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 9:49am
Hi, Yes, I would think you could offer a list box selection, or individual links for each scenario. Either way, you will need to pass the quantity info to the ProductCart page you are linking to.
Which PC page is your link going to? - If you don't want to post the full url just post the asp filename.
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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 10:23am
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Hi,
Currently I have an Add to cart link from my HTML product page that when selected goes to the viewcart.asp page.
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 11:12am
Hi,
Is that the page as coded in the link or just the page it ends up displaying?
Can you post the code that is inserted into your HTML pages - disguise the main URL i you wish.
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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 12:55pm
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Hi,
The HTML page (Add to cart) has the code below.
http://www.xxxx.com/store/pc/instPrd.asp?idproduct=1 - http://www.xxxx.com/store/pc/instPrd.asp?idproduct=1
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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 1:04pm
hi everyone,
I don't know if you've already come across this WIKI article that pertains to adding products to the cart from any page: http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/add_to_cart - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/add_to_cart
cheers
massimo
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 3:00pm
Thanks Massimo,
John, I reckon that covers what you need quite nicely.
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Posted By: john123
Date Posted: 21-July-2008 at 11:53pm
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Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. I was trying some examples and I believe it will work but I need to create 4 different product Id's (and SKU's) for the same product since the prices would need to be different. The 4 bottle price would need $37.49 per bottle and the 6 bottle price would need to be $33.33 per bottle. I guess I will go with this. Thanks.
John
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 22-July-2008 at 4:01am
Hi John,
Use the quantity discount feature! - That way you can have a single SKU and stock level and different pricing for the varying number of products.
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