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    Idea or Suggestion Complex Dynamic Pricing

    Hello !

    I am trying to set-up a zencart shop selling products with attributes.
    The main product has a fixed price and the client can personalize it with attributes, example:

    1 CD is the main product, price: 5$

    Attribute 1 (dropdown):

    • 1 track on the CD (included) - free attribute
    • 2 tracks (+3$)
    • 3 tracks (+5$)
    • 4 tracks (+6$)

    Until here I have no problem, everything working fine.

    I would like to add more price dependant attributes:

    Attribute 2 (checkbox):

    • Add a guitar on the track (raise the price of every selected amount of track [see attribute 1] by 2.50$)

    For example : 2 tracks will then cost 8$ + 5$ = 13$

    Attribute 3 (dropdown)

    • Add mastering on 1 track (+4$)
    • Add mastering on 2 tracks (+7$)
    • Add mastering on 3 tracks (+9$)
    • Add mastering on 4 tracks (+10$)

    Example :
    2 tracks with attribute 2 and attribute 3 will be : 8$ + 5$ + 7$ = 20$
    Of course attribute 3 in this example should offer options with max 2 mastering tracks

    Another example :
    2 tracks without attribute 2 but with attribute 3 on 1 track would be then : 8$ + 4$ = 12$

    Is there any chance to do such complex pricing options with zencart? I was looking into dependant attribute pricing, dynamic pricing and it seems no-one has a similar problem.

    Thank you in advance for your answers !!

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    Default Re: Complex Dynamic Pricing

    It sounds like you're looking to make one attribute dependent (not dependant) on the selection of another, which isn't supported in the current Zencart version, and there's no mod I'm aware of that adds that function.

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    Default Re: Complex Dynamic Pricing

    Hey stevesh,

    Thank you for your answer. - sorry for the spelling mistake, English isnt my mothertongue

    I hope this will be added sometime in the future! As it seems i'm not the only one that could benefit from it

    Anybody else heard of a mod that could do that?
    Could somebody code that?

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    Default Re: Complex Dynamic Pricing

    Somebody could code what you want; the difficulty is that there are innumerable different ways that someone could want attributes to be dependent, and one mod could not cover even a major fraction without massive coding. So any pre-built dependent attributes mod would be unsuitable for many of the people who would want to use it. I expect that is why dependent attributes are not yet a core feature in Zen Cart (or any other cart as far as I know).

    My guess would be that the best way forward would be to make the attribute system easy to hook into and customize for dependencies; then lots of people could write specialized mods which could be installed as needed.
    Last edited by gjh42; 9 Feb 2012 at 07:46 PM.

 

 

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