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    Default One time fee attribute

    Hi,

    I have searched high and low, and can not figure this out. I am no expert when it comes to Zen-Cart either, so any help would be great.

    I am in the process of adding a new category (shower favors) which has quite a few options for each product. I want to offer an option of "gift wrapping" which would be a one time fee for the order. I tried to add it as an attribute, however, the fee is added onto each item. So if a customer order say 10 favors, and the wrapping fee is $10.00, it's adding $100.00 to their order instead of just $10.00. Is there a way to get this to work? I could add a category for extra options for favor personalization, but would prefer to have this option set for each type of favor.


    Thank you so much,

    Denise

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    Default Re: One time fee attribute

    This would not be a product attribute as an attribute has to be associated with a specific product, not an unknown group of products.

    Set up a product called gift wrapping (price is your one time fee.)

    There is a cross sell module in the downloads section. Add the giftwrapping product as a "compatible product" to all your other products that can be gift wrapped. It will be listed on all your product pages. They can add the service giftwrapping from any product page. Make sure you specify in your ad copy that they only need to add giftwrapping once, and not per product.

    If you want a short cut on the compatible products option, just add the gift wrapping product as a featured product and list featured products in the center column on your product page.

    If you are going to gift wrap items individually, why don't you just charge a gift wrapping fee per item? Or, charge no fee for gift wrapping and use that as a marketing point. Most sites charge per item, instead of the one time fee.

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    Default Re: One time fee attribute

    Thanks for the help. I'm leaning toward the gift wrapping as a product as it's only available for my favors category, and not for my other products.

    Yeap, that's what I'm going to do. Thanks again.

    Denise

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    Default Re: One time fee attribute

    This could certainly be an attribute that is associated with the favors that can be gift wrapped. I would argue that this would be a much more intuitive interface. If you only want to bill for it once, have an associated product called "Gift Wrapping Fee" and state that this be added to the cart prior to checkout if gift wrapping is purchased.

    Good luck,
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    Default Re: One time fee attribute

    Meant to respond to this before - if you look at my gift wrapping contribution, you can add logic to have a maximum fee if you want to. It uses one (or more) attributes per wrappable product.

    Good luck,
    Scott
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