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It'd be nice to be able to create product variations that have totally different volume discounts.
Currently you can create a product with variations, and each choice has its own price, but if you associate a volume discount with the main product, the same volume discount applies to all of the choices. |
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We've looked at the way this works and over the past year... well, it's working just fine as is.
It's done this way so if your product's base value is $0.00, but then eventually costs something to purchase via required modifiers, the discount applies to the final price of the product, as it should. Examples would be materials sold by the inch or concert tickets with different costs on different dates, for instance. These are totally modifier built prices. Volume discounts would be meaningless unless they applied to the bottom line price of the product, including the value of any choices/modifiers.
Do you have an example for one volume discount for the product and a different volume discount for the modifiers? |
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Sure, this is of course total false pricing, etc to comply with my company's NDA, but something like this:
We sell Towels in different sizes/colors for example.
Each Towel size *and* color have different base prices and different volume discounts (I suppose it costs money for the coloring dye or something):
Size Color Price/Each Discount Price for 10
12x12 White 5.00 4.50
12x12 Beige 6.23 6.00
12x14 White 6.50 6.35
12x14 Beige 6.70 6.57
Now multiply this list by about 30 different base types of products each with size and color variations, and you can see my problem, heh.
Currently, I can't really use variations to create one type of product with some choices because our volume discounts change for each variation, and there's no way to set that in BV.
I have to actually create a new product for each choice so they can get our discounts.
BTW, I haven't really used Modifiers yet because there wasn't a tutorial on it, and we were rushing to get our store online, so I stuck with what I learned from the tutorials. . . How does the modifiers work exactly?
Also. . . If its something like "If you choose blue color, add $1.00 to the base price, etc", I'm not sure if that would work for us, since our pricing is somewhat chaotic and not based on anything besides what the boss says. There is no set definition on what choice costs more based on that choice. |
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You can set up choices and then edit each combo.. but as you said, 4 choices x 5 choices = a heckofa lot of editing. Add volume discounts.... HA. Modifiers are best for products with lots of possible combinations where you don't want to have the name and SKU change, and where you DO need shipping weight and costs to adjust. ALL of the choces on my site are modifiers. Have a look at the most intense category: http://www.missionfurnis...ne-Cabinet__MAS751R.aspxMakes editing a 'grid' out of the question. I feel your pain - setting up a complicated product scheme isn't pretty unless you're aces at manipulating a spreadsheet and product feeds directly to the db.. Any chance there's an algorythm to follow. Set-up once and just plug in the numbers? Oh, get you boss to standardize his pricing whims. It'll make this go a lot easier. |
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WOW.
Kudos to you and anyone else that can create products like that lol. That's some crazy customization ability, I love it :)
Yeah. . . our situation is: every choice is a different sku.
And actually my next major project is to create a new Flat File Import/Export Tool that will have a ton more features than the freebie version currently offered. My company is *really* big on MS Excel and want to be able to edit everything from it. . . |
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