Need one time charge with Product Attribute Grid

[jalaco]

Hello Zenners!!

I have a product that is priced by attributes using the Product Attribute Grid (which I absolutely LOVE!). I need to add a one-time charge to the order IF this particular product is ordered regardless of the quantity.

If I add this charge as a base charge to the product, the customer will get hit for this charge multiple times if they select multiple quantities of a particular attribute.


An example would be if I were selling memory that has attributes of 1GB, 2GB & 4GB. Using the product attributes matrix, the customer can select multiple quantities of each type of memory. Now I want to add a one-time installation charge that is the same regardless of how many the customer orders.

Any ideas how I could add this one time charge and still use the product attribute grid???

Jason

[Ajeh]

Did you try adding to the Product an Attribute with the One Time Charge on it?

This is a setting in the Attributes Controller and you can add it to the existing attribute(s) or make a separate Attribute for this charge only ...

One time charges are based on the 1 charge to the Product without regard to the quantity ordered ...

[jalaco]

If I try to add an additional attribute to the product that falls outside of the product attributes grid (for example a radio button that is always selected), it seems to break the product attribute grid.

I set up my attributes as follows....

I have an attribute called "Module Type" which is set up as a dropdown. I have another attribute called "Quantity" which is set up a a radio button, and has a single blank value assigned to it.

This creates a product attribute grid with 2 columns and x-number of rows. The left column is module type and the right column has boxes where the customer can enter the quantities.

That all works fine, but when I add another attribute (a radio button for example), it turns off the grid and my attributes that were in the grid revert back to a dropdown (where I cannot select individual quantities).

I though about just adding another value to the "Module Type" attribute called "service charge" and assigning the one-time charge to it, but that will put it in the product attribute grid. I have no way to insure that the customer actually selects that particular attribute let alone only select one.

Any ideas???

[jalaco]

BTW... I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a

[Ajeh]

You can add the One Time Charge with any/all of the attributes in a given Option Name group of values and which ever one is selected would manage this one time charge ...

So if you had the Option Name: Color you can add to the Option Values for Red, Blue and Green the One Time Charge and since only 1 color can be selected this would work ...

[jalaco]

Hi Ajeh,

I tried adding the one time charge to all the attributes, and it doesn't work the way I need it to. My product (call it product x) is priced by attributes, but I need to be able to assign this one time charge (lets say $100.00) to product x regardless of attributes and regardless of quantity of product x ordered.

So if I have product x with attributes red, green and blue showing in the grid format, and the customer selects qty-3 Red, qty-1 green, and qty-2 blue, it shows up in the shopping cart as...

Qty 3 Product x Color Red
Qty 1 Product x Color Green
Qty 2 Product x Color Blue

The customer gets hit with the $100.00 charge three times.