Attributes HOW-TO

[Ajeh]

Normal Attributes are qty * attribute price

When you want special things like one time prices that is 1 price added without regard to qty

attribute qty discounts are based on how many are ordered * the price in the attribute qty discount field based on the scale you put in there.

[leonardop]

ok, i get the idea... thankz Ajeh ::tup

[leonardop]

Ok... im back ;) , another things in the attribute controler i dont understand:
- Attributes Qty Price Discount:
- Onetime Attributes Qty Price Discount:
can this be used like the qty discount of the base price of the producto to a especific attribute? so i can make a attribute like this:
x 1000 $0,15
x 2000 $0,11
etc etc....
if that is possible whats the syntax?.

Thanks... AGAIN,
LP

[Ajeh]

Yes it can.

Go load a demo version of Zen Cart v1.2.5 ... into a demo database ...

Check the New v1.2 Category and the Attributes ...

There are numerous examples on the demo data that shows what you can do with Attributes.

It would really help you if you had a working example to play with ... :)

[leonardop]

i found it!, looking in my old installation with the example products:

3:10.00,6:9.00,9:8.00,12:7.00,15:6.00

i will take a look there for other things... i thinks is all there... i only have to search.

Sorry for asking before time,
LP

[vteodorescu]

Hi, everyone

I was playing around with attribute prices and price factors, and they seem to just add together.

For example, let's say we want to sell water by the gallon, for 1 dollar a gallon.

I made a product water, put an attribute "water by gallon", and for 1 gallon I would put attribute price 1, price factor 1, for 2 gallons attribute price 1, price factor 2.


This makes the price for 1 gallon 2 dollars, for 2 gallons 3 dollars.
Yes I know I can put the offset to 1 which will subtract it from the price etc. The question is why go to these contortions, it would be much easier to put the attribute price to what you want from the beginning. Am I missing something essential here?

Strangely, if you put price 0, the total price is 0, regardless of factors. If you put attribute price less than 1, 0.5 let's say, it seems to propagate to the other adjacent attribute values. This must be a bug.

Confusedly yours

Teo

[Ajeh]

Let's say your Product Price is $10.00

You set the Attribute Price Factor to 1 the attribute is now $10 + $10

Set to 2 the Attribute price is now $20 so the total price is $10 + $20

Set to 3 the Attribute price is now $30 so the total price is $10 + $30 = $40

Set the Attributes Price Factor to .90 ... $9.00 ... so the total price is $19.00

The offset is to subtract the product price based on the same formula

Together you can have:

Products Price is $10 = $10
Attributes Price Factor is 1 = 1 x $10
Attributes Price Factor Offset is 1 = - 1 x $10

Together = $10

Products Price is $10 = $10
Attributes Price Factor is 2 = 2 x $20
Attributes Price Factor Offset is 1 = - 1 x $10

Together = $20

There are uses for this such as creating a display that looks like you are setting a qty price on the attribute

Product Price is $10
How Many
Qty 1 Attribute Price Factor 1 Offset is 1 = $10
Qty 2 Attribute Price Factor 2 Offset is 1 = $20
Qty 3 Attribute Price Factor 3 Offset is 1 = $30
Qty 4 Attribute Price Factor 4 Offset is 1 = $40

Or use this as a percentage calculation

Advantage ... Change Price to $20 and all attributes update accordingly

[Ajeh]

Note: attribute price factor can be used in combination with Attribute Price

Product Price is $10
Attribute Price is $5
Attribute Price Factor is 2

$10 + $5 + 2 x $10
Total = $35

Change price to $20 and price adjusts accordingly on attribute

[vteodorescu]

Thank you very much yet again, Linda. Sorry for doubting the software: My ignorance plus the bad choice of values to play with led me to wrong conclusions.

You are of course very correct in what you described, and I stand corrected.

I played with it and it works as advertised :)

I hope your explanation helps others on the forum as well, I could not find anything as coherent as this when I looked around.

All the best

Teo

[Ajeh]

The attribtues have a lot of features that until explored are hard to comprehend their worth.

Sometimes you just have to see it in action and then you find there are even more ways of using them.

I had never used the one time charge where it charged an amount up to a certain qty then stopped ...

I knew it could be done, but had never had a practical application for it.

The attribute pricing has endless combos.

Making them work for you is the trick.

Note: none of those were Price by Attribute setups that I showed you.

That is often misused as well.

Thanks for letting us know that this solution worked for you :)