DUAL Pricing v2

[rstevenson]

When I was first setting up a Zen version of our sites, I put a lot of thought into making just one site that could handle both retail and wholesale customers. I ended up not doing it. As you can see from the links below, we have completely separate retail and wholesale sites.

In our case we use separate domain names, since both names had been on the web for years and were high in Google. But I believe the same thing could be done using a single domain and the domain style used by so many large companies. For example, www .apple.com, developer.apple.com, and_so_on.apple.com.

So you could have retail.skye.com and wholesale.skye.com, both under www .skye.com (or whatever your domain is.)

You'd then have a full install of ZC in each part of the site, with separate prices and minimums and sales and whatever else you need.

HTH

Rob

[slowawake]

When I was first setting up a Zen version of our sites, I put a lot of thought into making just one site that could handle both retail and wholesale customers. I ended up not doing it. As you can see from the links below, we have completely separate retail and wholesale sites.

In our case we use separate domain names, since both names had been on the web for years and were high in Google. But I believe the same thing could be done using a single domain and the domain style used by so many large companies. For example, www .apple.com, developer.apple.com, and_so_on.apple.com.

So you could have retail.skye.com and wholesale.skye.com, both under www .skye.com (or whatever your domain is.)

You'd then have a full install of ZC in each part of the site, with separate prices and minimums and sales and whatever else you need.

HTH

Rob

I'm really hoping to not have to do this, but it may be the best solution in the end. Mostly I'm concerned with setting my clients up with multiple admin panels, multiple databases, two places to update/change products etc, though in the end it will allow all the flexibility we need on the front end.

I started digging deeper in the code, it's a bit intimidating for my skill level, but maybe I can write something to take care of this.

I don't want to go start implementing a different cart, but are there others that are more flexible in this arena of wholesale/quantities/etc support?