sold per case or min. 3

[roberte]

I'm working on a new site.
Some of the items are available in case (12) lots only and some require a minimum purchase of 3.
I'm not sure how to best configure this.
I tried the item first and set it to min. 3 but then it takes the price and multiplies it by 3 when you add it to the cart.
The prices we're using are either for the per 3 or per case(12).
Any ideas?

Thanks

[kobra]

Confused???
You sell by case
What is the 3 min? ea or case
A link to what you have might have illuminated what you are attempting

[stevesh]

If I can't buy just one, I would make the product itself a 'three pack', with a case as a separate product or attribute.

[schoolboy]

If you are selling wine, where the customer may choose, for example, a single bottle of each of a selection of varieties - but that the total order must make up case-lots of 3 or 12 - because that's how the order is configured, packaged and despatched.

Some wine combinations are available as 3-pack - others available as case lots of 12, but the customer can still choose what wines to make up those packs...

I developed a module that SORT-OF works, but it looks at the total quantity of ITEMS in the cart...

If I set the limiter to 6 (in the Admin Console), then the cart item total must be in multiples of 6...

... so a customer MUST have at least 6 bottles in the cart, or a MULTIPLE of 6 (ie: 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, etc...)

IF they have LESS than 6, OR IF they have a number that is NOT a MULTIPLE of 6, then they cannot proceed to checkout, and an alert appears telling them to adjust their cart so that they have the requisite number of ITEMS.

The limiting factor here is that the mod works off the TOTAL ITEM COUNT in the cart, and checks that against the designated limit that you set in Admin.

... so it ONLY works if ALL items are single bottles, and ALL case lots are configured in 6-per case.

My mod allows you to set the limiter to any integer greater than 0, so, while I use "6" in my example, you could use 3, or 9, or even 722 !

See it in action at www.modshops.co.uk/wineshop .

(This will not work for the OP, as he/she wants the capability to have 3 or 12 as delimiters.)

Maybe some clever wag can see how to do it...

[roberte]

Confused???
You sell by case
What is the 3 min? ea or case
A link to what you have might have illuminated what you are attempting

I'm just in the starting phase of this project.
Yes, the way my client has his prices configured included some wines that sell by 3 bottles, or customers can pick and choose to make a case of 12.
No link yet to show what I'm trying to do, sorry but appreciate the speedy reply as always.

[roberte]

If I can't buy just one, I would make the product itself a 'three pack', with a case as a separate product or attribute.

And then make a "12 pack" item for the case lot?
That might work, will play arround with that and see what client prefers.

thanks.

[roberte]

If you are selling wine, where the customer may choose, for example, a single bottle of each of a selection of varieties - but that the total order must make up case-lots of 3 or 12 - because that's how the order is configured, packaged and despatched.

Some wine combinations are available as 3-pack - others available as case lots of 12, but the customer can still choose what wines to make up those packs...

I developed a module that SORT-OF works, but it looks at the total quantity of ITEMS in the cart...

If I set the limiter to 6 (in the Admin Console), then the cart item total must be in multiples of 6...

... so a customer MUST have at least 6 bottles in the cart, or a MULTIPLE of 6 (ie: 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, etc...)

IF they have LESS than 6, OR IF they have a number that is NOT a MULTIPLE of 6, then they cannot proceed to checkout, and an alert appears telling them to adjust their cart so that they have the requisite number of ITEMS.

The limiting factor here is that the mod works off the TOTAL ITEM COUNT in the cart, and checks that against the designated limit that you set in Admin.

... so it ONLY works if ALL items are single bottles, and ALL case lots are configured in 6-per case.

My mod allows you to set the limiter to any integer greater than 0, so, while I use "6" in my example, you could use 3, or 9, or even 722 !

See it in action at www.modshops.co.uk/wineshop .

(This will not work for the OP, as he/she wants the capability to have 3 or 12 as delimiters.)

Maybe some clever wag can see how to do it...

So if I set the magic number to 3 this should work, cuz 12 is multiplier of 3. :-)
But how would it work then for bottles that can be sold as singles? Do you assign a group or something to the items that sell in multiples?

[roberte]

There is another part to this. There is going to be a price difference between shipping to the Continental US and Outside the Continental US.
What would be the best way to handle that?

[schoolboy]

So if I set the magic number to 3 this should work, cuz 12 is multiplier of 3. :-)

Yes... that's possible.

But how would it work then for bottles that can be sold as singles? Do you assign a group or something to the items that sell in multiples?

That's the challenge right now. My module cannot (yet) differentiate - it uses the total cart ITEMS as the defining number.