DUAL Pricing v2

[jasontomczak]

@jasontomczak,
That sounds like a bug that existed in earlier versions. Try downloading the latest version & overwrite the files on your server with the latest files. http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=74

Next-morning update: I tried an entirely new installation of ZenCart 1.5.1, new MySQL database, new upload of Dual Pricing 2.1 plugin, new product and sample customer. Wholesale price is shown on the product page, but not in the cart. Is it possible one of the php files in the plugin isn't working right?

[jasontomczak]

@jasontomczak,
That sounds like a bug that existed in earlier versions. Try downloading the latest version & overwrite the files on your server with the latest files. http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=74

Something tells me this isn't quite right...


It's like that even after a clean install of ZC 1.5.1 and DPv2.

[Rafi_l]

Simple question here I hope. (First I want to say I am a ZC newb so bare with me) I have read /skimmed through the majority of this thread and I hope I posting in the right spot. Everyone seems to talk about "wholesale" usage for this plugin but the "Dual Pricing" has me confused into thinking its what i need - which is nothing regarding wholesale for my purposes. ( I am going to over simplify to convey my issue) I would like two prices for the same widget, one for plain white widget and one for colored black widget. Or in other words, what I would like to do is the following example: I have a widgets I am selling but I want a second price if the widget is, lets say "painted". Which would obviously cost more. I want every customer so see both prices and choose if they want their widgets "painted", and the painted price is going to be more expensive obviously. Is this right plug-in for me? I figured Group Pricing is clearly not for me as I don't need to modify every customer for various tiers.

OR Can I do this within ZC natively without the dualpricing plugin? If so I apologize for posting here but I have tried searching the forums and maybe my nomenclature verbiage is not accurate for what I am trying to do. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Rafi

[Rafi_l]

Simple question here I hope. (First I want to say I am a ZC newb so bare with me) I have read /skimmed through the majority of this thread and I hope I posting in the right spot. Everyone seems to talk about "wholesale" usage for this plugin but the "Dual Pricing" has me confused into thinking its what i need - which is nothing regarding wholesale for my purposes. ( I am going to over simplify to convey my issue) I would like two prices for the same widget, one for plain white widget and one for colored black widget. Or in other words, what I would like to do is the following example: I have a widgets I am selling but I want a second price if the widget is, lets say "painted". Which would obviously cost more. I want every customer so see both prices and choose if they want their widgets "painted", and the painted price is going to be more expensive obviously. Is this right plug-in for me? I figured Group Pricing is clearly not for me as I don't need to modify every customer for various tiers.

OR Can I do this within ZC natively without the dualpricing plugin? If so I apologize for posting here but I have tried searching the forums and maybe my nomenclature verbiage is not accurate for what I am trying to do. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Rafi

I think I finally found my answer...I just need to get more familiar with product attributes.....

[Johnnycopilot]

@Rafi_l ,, I am fairly new to Zen Cart as well, so don't necessarily take my word for it. But Product Attributes will do exactly that. That is what they are for. I know this because I use them on a few of my products. Setting them up is a little tricky, but once you have a particular attribute 'set up', it's not that difficult to add that attribute to a product. I also use Dual Pricing on a different website that I have for retail and Wholesale (wholesale customers are a completely different list of customers from retail), and I don't believe that dual pricing is what you need. Just use attributes.

[jackie.taferner]

Johnny is correct. You should setup product attributes. For more information, please visit this link: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?...to-my-products

[idc1]

I'm using DP1.7 in conjunction with ZC1.3.9h. In includes/modules/products_quantity_discounts.php lies:

  case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
  // customer must be logged in to browse
  $zc_hidden_discounts_on = true;
  $zc_hidden_discounts_text = TEXT_AUTHORIZATION_PENDING_PRICE;
   break; 

When a web visitor is not logged in and they are viewing products with quantity discounts, the above code results in the table populating "quantity discounts unavailable" as well as "price unavailable".

I would like for it to just show the normal MSRP. The closest I have come to this is the below and 1)it doesn't format the price correctly, 2)It still displays in the table layout which I can live with but prefer it to just look as those items without discounts, 3)this may not even be the best approach.

  case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
   // customer must be logged in to browse
  $zc_hidden_discounts_on = true;
  $zc_hidden_discounts_text = zen_get_products_base_price($products_id_current);
  break; 

Any thoughts?

[jackie.taferner]

idc1, if you would like to display the regular price and not the table, then there should be no need to change the code. It should already be showing up at the top of the product page (where it normally does).

If you just want to remove the text "Price Unavailable" or "Quantity Discounts Unavailable", then do a search for that text under Tools > Developers Tool Kit. Scroll to the bottom and enter those keywords in the last search box, and select Catalog to find out which file needs to be changed. Then you can just change that text to a space so it will disappear.

Make sure your Customer Shop Status is set to "Not Required"

Customer Shop Status - View Shop and Prices
(Admin - Catalog)
Set whether the customer must be approved to shop. If you wish customers to login to see prices, it is recommended that you use option 2 so that search engine spiders can index your pages.
Options are:
0 = Not required
1 = Must login to browse
2 = May browse but no prices unless logged in
3 = Showroom Only
Default: 0

[idc1]

Thanks for the input Jackie. I am not trying to change or remove the text. I am trying to get the MSRP to show.

I have these settings

customer shop status - view and shop prices.........0
customer authorization status - authorization pending........3 (admin recommended using 2 or 3 in which option 3 fit the needs better.)

The code I mentioned in my previous post seemed to pull the correct information, but it formatted it as 39.9900 instead of $39.99

[jackie.taferner]

Hmm, the Retail MSRP price should already be displayed right underneath the Product title. If you wanted to show the price twice, you could copy and paste the price block located in the tpl_product_info_display.php template. Perhaps a visual would help me understand better; can you provide a link to your website?