Attributes HOW-TO

[Ajeh]

On this product do you get either the Book *or* one of the Downloads?

Or do you get the Book *and* one of the downloads?

If you are Price by Attributes Yes but then set all the attributes to Include in Base Price No ... this is going to be an incorrect display of the price.

If you could give me a little more info on this we can get your pricing straightened out.

[kati]

It's the book -OR- the download, since they are essentially the same thing.

We want the book to be $5.00 off the original price until a certain date.

[kati]

if I set Include in Base Price to yes on all the attributes the same thing happens. The book adds to cart at $100 but the sub-total at the bottom of the cart is the discounted price.

[Ajeh]

Set the Products Price to 0

Set Priced by Attribute Yes

Now set the attributes to their full value

Based on this setting ... the display price is the lowest price of each of the Product Options are added together if they are marked Include in Base Price.

[kati]

ok.

I set the products price to $0.

I kept the Price by Attributes on YES.

The attributes are maked to include the base price (which is $0).

The attributes are set to their full value price. E.g. the book is set at $52.50.

With the special on (the book for sale for $47.50) and only the book attribute set with the discount on the book shows at $0.00.

I can easily set the book to the discounted price and avoid this mess. I just wanted to be able to take advantage of the Specials feature in ZenCart so it would expire on a certain date. I guess that doesn't work when you want to discount one attribute and not the whole product.

Any ideas?????

[Kim]

The attributes are not designed to be discounted in the manner you are attempting.

[Ajeh]

I take it that the discount on the special is just for the book attribute ... but the others do not get the special discount, correct?

Actually, this is possible to setup as you want it ... just takes a little thinking through all the peices and parts of the pricing features available in Zen Cart ... it just takes a little fooling around with all the neat features to make this work for you ... :)

The products price is $0.00

Priced by Attributes is Yes

The Book Attribute is priced $52.50 and set to include in base price and Apply Discounts Used by Product Special/Sale: Yes

The Downloads are set to $20.00 each and set include in base price to NO and Apply Discount Used by Product Special/Sale: NO

Now the price will read: $52.50 Sale $47.50 and the pricing will work correctly when the Downloads are selected at $20.00

If you miss any of these steps it all comes out wrong ...

But if you are careful in how you use the options for the attributes it will work the way you are wanting it.




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[Tim_B]

I have not installed Zen yet so forgive me if I am posting out of turn (I just got an email from Linda this morning inviting me to try Zen instead of osc).

My question is two-fold

Question 1:
I have products that have 2 or 3 options that can contain the same option values. in OSC you cannot distinguish between them.

For example:

glaze 1 - Red
glaze 1 - Blue

glaze 2 - Red
glaze 2 = Blue

So when I assign product attributes, I cannot distinguish between glaze 1's red and glaze 2's red. Is this the same on Zen Cart?

Question 2

I would like to be able to limit second and third options depending on what option 1 is.

Ex.

Mazda 626
2 door or 4 door

if 2 door, then comes in red or yellow
if 4 door, then comes in blue or green

is there a way to make colors change depending on which model they choose? ( I don't sell cars, I wish!)

[Ajeh]

Option Names own their Option Values.

So if you have Option Names:

Glaze 1
Glaze 2

They would own their own separate Option Values for:
Red
Blue

When assigning them you would see in the list:

Red [Glaze 1]
Red [Glaze 2]

As to options being related or dependant to one another that is not a feature of Zen Cart at this time.

[Tim_B]

Thanks Linda! Can't wait to get home tonight to install!

Zoom zooom zoooooom!!