Unit price to change based on quantity

[dharrison]

Hi all

I have run into a problem on our website. If I can use http://ergonomiceducationfurniture.c...roducts_id=221 as an example, the unit price is determined on quantity. eg between 2-5 is price A, 6-11 Price B etc. This is selected and then the individual fills in the quantity box as to how many units they actually want.

The problem is, this is a) very fiddly and b) what's to stop the buyer selecting the cheapest price on the drop-down list and ordering a low quantity? As its payment online, by the time we've got the order they'd be very little we can do about it.

My question is, how can we resolve this? Is there an add-on (although I have looked and found nothing yet) or am I simply approaching this the wrong way?

Please, any help will be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance

[DrByte]

Instead of using attributes to select quantities and lower pricing, use the built-in Discount Quantities feature: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=59

[dharrison]

Thank you DrByte - that works better

However, rather than have a list of unit groups and prices, we did like the lowest cost being displayed and labelled "prices starting from:" Like how it shows up when you use attributes. How would we achieve that?

I hope you can help.

[dharrison]

Hi all

Following on from http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180118 where I was using attributes to fix prices depending on the quantities order, I was just wondering how I can change the price field to read 'Prices from £xx' ?

I have basic knowledge of PHP, and can learn patterns of script easily if that helps.

Many thanks

[DrByte]

These articles may be of help if you're trying to replace existing wording with something else:
http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=38
http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=39

[Ajeh]

Are you just trying to put the words:
Prices from

in front of the £275.00 ...

And just to confirm ... who "owns" the price ... the Product or the individual Attributes?

[dharrison]

Hi Ajeh

That is correct. The prices are structured using Product price manager. The attributes just show the price for each unit so the client can see it.

When I did use attributes The lowest price was quoted with the prefix "Prices starting from". We would like to replicate that rather than showing the most expensive prices as we currently do.

Not all of our products are ordered in bulk so to just write a prefix in the language file would not work.

I hope this helps (and I hope I have explained that OK!)

[Ajeh]

If you look at the template tpl_product_info_display.php and change it in your templates and overrides around line 71 to read:

  echo $one_time . ((zen_has_product_attributes_values((int)$_GET['products_id']) and $flag_show_product_info_starting_at == 1) ? TEXT_BASE_PRICE : 'Price from ') . zen_get_products_display_price((int)$_GET['products_id']);

Does that accomplish what you want?

[dharrison]

Hi Ajeh

I wish it did! That just adds Prices starting from at the front of every cost.

Not all of our items are dependent on bulk orders. And it still lists the highest price regardless.

Thanks anyway

[Ajeh]

You could use an IF statement and check if the Product uses discount:

(zen_products_lookup((int)$_GET['products_id'], 'products_discount_type') !=0 ? 'Price from ' : '')