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Topic: Zero Price

Posted By: 1st-line
Subject: Zero Price
Date Posted: 15-October-2012 at 4:06pm

We have a lot of items where our cost, and therefore our sales price, is not determined until the items arrive. However, we have to set up the items before they arrive. When no sales price is indicated in PC, the item has no price and can be added to the cart for free. In other cases, employees can forget to put in a sales price.

We understand that some things may be want to be given free, but is there any code to change this to remove the buy button or a requirement of a sales price when creating the item.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-October-2012 at 4:16pm

Not sure if this fits what you are needing, but you could set the product to use a required custom input field to store the price. That takes care of half of it, if I understand what you are needing here. From there a customization to instPrd.asp would be needed to add the product to the cart with its price as the value entered into the custom input field.

Does that sound like what you need?

Posted By: 1st-line
Date Posted: 15-October-2012 at 5:08pm

Sean, thanks for the reply. In setting up a product, one is not required to put in a sales price. The result is a zero sales price. IN PC, the customer can order the item for free when in fact it should not be free. there is no systemic way to a) require a sales price to be entered when an item is set up, and/or be b) prevent a custoemr from ordering items that have a zero dollar amount as a sales price.

I would prefer to have to avoid duplicate entry using a customized field. Our current storefront prevents ordering of an item. this storefront was developed over 10 years ago.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-October-2012 at 5:18pm

I think I'm getting a clearer picture now. Please let me know if I'm getting warmer:

You need to set up products in the CP before you know what the online price will be
You need to mitigate against employees setting products live on the storefront with no price
You actually don't have any products you offer for free, so you would like the storefront not to allow adding to cart if the product has no price

Is there any reason you can't use the active/inactive status and/or product not for sale features to manage this? Perhaps with little tweak to the CP to not allow employees to set a product as active and not not for sale (i.e. un-checking the not for sale option) if the online price is not > 0?

Posted By: 1st-line
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 2:11pm

Sean, thanks. I think allowing the product to be set up without a price still needs to exist. It is more of stopping customers from seeing the zero dollar sales price, placing in a customized message to repalce of the sales price (ie Price TBD or Please email for pricing), AND preventing ordering a product with a zero dollar sales price by removing the buy button.

Re-looking at the work-around, I think the NOT FOR SALE and message checkbox may work. The only thing is it is not foolproof as one of my employees can forget to check this.

Also, I need to connect with you regarding the Back in Stock feature we purchased from you.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 2:36pm

The CP could easily be customized to automatically set the Not For Sale setting and apply a canned message if the online price is set to 0. What that do the trick for you?

RE: Notify Me, shoot us an email to support@ and Kelly will get back to you on that.

Posted By: 1st-line
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 2:47pm

Yes, that would do the trick.

Jim

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 3:08pm

Hi Jim,

Shoot us a request through http://www.wmsmerchantservices.com/rfq.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.wmsmerchantservices.com/rfq.asp and we'll get right on it.

Posted By: 1st-line
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 4:11pm

wt1zs nor wt1zs in captcha do not work.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16-October-2012 at 8:42pm

Not sure why you'd have an issue with the CAPTCHA. We get requests regularly, and a couple today too.

You could alternatively simple send an email to support at wmsmerchantservices.com if you like.