Buying into a membership group and discount pricing per item.

[Ajeh]

Are the memberships individual Products or 1 Product with individual Attributes for each of the membership groups?

[JimmyV]

None of my products have any attribute settings they are straight products with a given price which is controlled by group pricing.

Group pricing in turn has several levels which allows me to code each item to an exact price.

Currently I charge 10,20,30 etc dollars to "upgrade" to a higher discount level. People buy stuff daily or multi times per week so getting to a new level is a no-brainer for them.

That said without an automated upsell method it is very difficult to educate the consumer of the advantage. If I can make these codes featured items on the homepage I expect folks will quickly see the logic behind upgrading.

So John Might buy a Light Fixture for $20. If he upgraded he would pay 15. If he upgrades again then he pays 10 for same item. If he goes again he pays 5 being most aggressive level.

If I get it working somehow I'd probably thin down the levels to 3 instead of 5 with non-member currently being $25 price.

Does that help? To upgrade you do it one time and you always get the lower level pricing. Or I may do it annually still undecided. If annual the price would be lower v one-time.

[Ajeh]

I go to your store and want to get into the first Group Pricing ...

What do I do? Do I call you or do I buy a Product, that "looks" like an upgrade to the First Level Group Pricing?

I have been added to the First Level Group Pricing ...

I want to get Upgraded to the next level ...

What do I do? Do I call you or do I buy a Product, that "looks" like an upgrade to the Second Level Group Pricing?

Is this "upgrade", if a Product that "looks" like an "upgrade" the same Product or a different Product?

NOTE: pretend I have never ever seen your site and haven't a clue how you have it setup nor what it looks like to the customer ...

[JimmyV]

You are amazing!

If given access to the website you are therefore at the base level pricing.

Theoretically I place a cross-sell or featured item that they can easily find and/or purchase using the standard method that will alter their membership to preferred and then again to premium or you can upgrade to the max (premium) all at once. So 3 codes total each one alters the admin customer area based on above.

Beyond that it does not need to be a tickle sale or anything like that. If they choose to upgrade great if not fine too but just want to make it easier and more obvious to customers so they can just use their CC at time of purchase of something else.

And even during that purchase it would not matter if they got the lesser discount because language could be written to say the lower prices would be honored at time of shipment with approved CC charge.

[Ajeh]

So I come to your site to buy a $100 product ...

I see these Products (memberships) that I can purchase to save on future orders ... or I can buy these Products (memberships) in a separate order ... or, I can buy these Products (memberships) in the same order and you will credit me back the $$$ saved based on the membership ...

Meanwhile, the goal here is to adjust in the customers table the field customers_group_pricing to automate things so that all future orders would give the customer the discount purchased ...

Or ... get really trickie in the code and see if customer:

1 has no previous membership extend the new membership to the current order and update their membership upon completion of the order

2 has a previous membership extend the new upgraded membership to the current order and upgrade their membership upon completion of the order

That would be then avoid the need of a refund if you are offering a Group membership/upgrade in an order that can be applied to the immediate order ...

How good are your coding skills ... while not difficult to write, you are still getting into some sticky bits of code here to manage the discounts and upgrades etc. , especially if you would like the added benefit of having this all magically work from the order in which it is purchased and not include the membership as part of the membership discount ...

The good news is that the code needed for your current version will pretty much be the same as that for v1.3.9b ...

The bad news is that I would still have to sit down and write all of this code to be able to fully explain how to write all of this code ...

Have you got your coders hat on ... or find something burning a hole in your pocket?

[JimmyV]

Yes I think that is about right. And no I have no idea how to code such a thing. I can code if the core structure is exist I am not a true coder I can only cheat off others abilities.

It is something I'd be happy to have written if you are willing to do it send me a PM if this is something you have time for. Pockets are not an issue