Need 2 different prices in 2 currencies - not a conversion

[rstevenson]

Hi,

Our retail site (link below) sells all our greeting cards in CDN $, so any conversion to the buyer's currency occurs at their CC processor. This works fine for retail.

I'm about to start to set up site #2 which will be for our wholesale company. That site will sell only to authorized accounts.

What I'd like is a way to set -- either automatically based on country code or manually by asking them to select a 'flag' -- which currency to show them.

The catch is that we do not convert a single price from one currency to another. We have 2 separate price points based on what cards commonly sell for in the target markets. A card that sells for $3.25 in Canada will sell for $2.95 in the US, each in the local currency of course.

The wholesale buyer pays 1/2 retail, so we need to show the price as 1.625 for the Canadian buyer or 1.475 for the American buyer.

I believe this is not possible with Zen Cart as it stands. And the Dual Pricing mod appears to be for showing either wholesale or retail prices, but doesn't have anything to do with 2 separate prices for 2 countries.

If anyone has done this I wonder if you can share the how-to. If not, can anyone suggest an approach?

TIA

Rob

[rstevenson]

In case someone finds this thread and wonders...

I use Dual Pricing -- the latest version available from the Downloads / Pricing Tools section. It allows me to show retail prices to visitors not logged in, and then show either of 2 wholesale prices to buyers logged in -- one price to Canadian buyers and one to American buyers.

The buyers have to create an account which is held pending approval; then you have to set a flag in the account in admin and approve it, before they see the right price. But other than that bit of bother, it works just fine.

Now to figure out how to have the flag set automatically from the country code when they create the account.

Rob