If your attributes are adding the base price you need to read this

[Nick1973]

Hi, I had problem the other other day which I posted on here but was struggling to work it out. In looking around I noticed it was quite a common problem where there were similar issues to mine.

Here was my problem

My attributes are set up as follows:

Weight (kg)
250g £4.50
500g £9.00
750g £13.50
1kg £18.00
2kg £36.00

The problem I'm having is that the prices above are total prices and the base price of £4.50 is being added on when I add to the cart.

so if you select 500g £9.00 it will add on £4.50 when added to the cart and total the price at £13.50. I don't want this to happen as the price should be £9.00 in the cart.

I could display attributes like this

Weight (kg)
250g
500g +£4.50
750g +£9.00
1kg +£13.50
2kg +£18.00

and that would only add the correct amount onto the base price, however my client requires that i display the total price on the attributes.


After alot of fiddling around I finally found the solution to this and felt it necessary to share it with other zen cart users as its not clear in FAQ.

If your adding prices by attributes and don't want the base price to be included in the price when added to the cart then you need to do the following.

Click on Catalog > Product Price Manager in the admin.

Find the category with that displays your product from the dropdown menu.

Click on the relevant product and 'display'

Click on 'edit' (not 'edit product')

On 'Priced by Attributes' select 'Yes'

Clcik on 'update' - this will then add the lowest priced attribute together with the base price - which we don't want. So what we need to do here is

Clcik on 'edit product'

Then set the price of the product to zero ( 0 )

Go to catalog > attributes controller

Select the category containing your product.

Select the product and display

Edit the product

Then make sure 'Include in Base Price
When Priced by Attributes' is set to 'Yes' on all your product attributes.

This should then ensure when the product is added to the cart (when displaying the full price on attributes and not the difference) the correct price is added and displayed and not attributes price + base price.

Hope this helps people as I was tearing my hair out over this so please share where needed.



Nick

[Ajeh]

Thanks for posting an update on the proper way to use Priced by Attribute ...

Note: This can also be setup on the Product itself in the Catalog when adding/editing for the Priced by Attribute products ...

[Nick1973]

Yes, spotted that option after I posted - just wish it had been explained better on the FAQ as I feel its mega important and took me ages to work out the sequence.

Many Thanks

[BikeTuna]

Just what I needed, thanks!

[pixelpadre]

Having a little problem understanding price by attributes.

When I look at edit product it says:

Display price will include lowest group attributes prices plus price

My question is which display price, because when I use this option my item base price never changes regardless of whether any attributes are flagged yes/no in the red box that says include in base price.


I guess what I am saying is I see no difference between price based on attributes or not based on attributes.

Store is pictures with:

Frame type

Mat color

Sizes

[Ajeh]

Have you an URL where we could perhaps peek at a Product that is using Attributes that you feel is not working correctly?

[pixelpadre]

moc.nidhataktm.www backwards.

[Ajeh]

When I add the Product to the cart, I get the base price plus the one time charge ...

If I add multiple quantities I get the base price x quantity plus the one time charges ...

Could you give a specific example of what attribute combination you are adding to the cart and what price you think the price should be and what you are seeing?

[pixelpadre]

item is price by attributes.

Barnwood frame is flagged NO
Elegant frame is flagged Yes

However when I order

three pics with Barnwood
and
three pics with elegant

Both are calculated exactly the same.

thanks

[Ajeh]

Have you applied the Known Bugfixes for v1.3.8 at:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...860#post610860

Specifically #24 ...

Also, you say you are Priced by Attribute ... what is your Product Price set to?