Buying into a membership group and discount pricing per item.

[Omen3891]

I am trying to set up the site to have 2 user group levels (public w/no discount & member w/discount) which have group pricing on a per item basis. Ideally, the website would sell the membership and handle the user groups automatically. Im trying to avoid reinventing the wheel here and did some minimal poking around and found several threads where such functionality had been asked for, however, Ive not found a definite answer. If there is something anyone can point me to it would be greatly appreciated.

Currently I am looking at using the Group Pricing (per item) add on to set this up. One problem is that it would leave the admin to setup the user groups, and it creates a delay between purchase of the membership and the time they get a discount. I had thought of a potential solution to this by creating a downloadable file for a one month temporary membership card that would have a discount code they could use to get the member price. Am I going down the right path with this or am I chasing my tail?

[DonTino]

I second that request.

I'm trying to accomplish something similair. I'd need the groups to be set automatically when the customer enters a number (which they get from a membership card) and their name.

Then they should automatically be added to a certain group discount.

Any easy way to accomplish this??

Tino

[FreeArticlePublishin]

I am looking for this also. I am doing it manually right now and also need a way to leave out some catagories.

[importman44]

I have been looking around here and have NOT found anything that involves "Buying a membership" feature. Below is what I want the area to do.

What I would like to do is have a retail that you don't need a membership and a wholesale area that you need a membership. Is there a feature that I can automaticely have the wholesale area created when payment is taken for the membership. I want to have a login in area for the wholesale membership.

Does anyone know where I can find this on Zen Cart if we have it?

Thank you very much

[HappyMom]

I am trying to set up the site to have 2 user group levels (public w/no discount & member w/discount) which have group pricing on a per item basis. Ideally, the website would sell the membership and handle the user groups automatically. Im trying to avoid reinventing the wheel here and did some minimal poking around and found several threads where such functionality had been asked for, however, Ive not found a definite answer. If there is something anyone can point me to it would be greatly appreciated.

Currently I am looking at using the Group Pricing (per item) add on to set this up. One problem is that it would leave the admin to setup the user groups, and it creates a delay between purchase of the membership and the time they get a discount. I had thought of a potential solution to this by creating a downloadable file for a one month temporary membership card that would have a discount code they could use to get the member price. Am I going down the right path with this or am I chasing my tail?

I need exactly the same thing too. I am also doing it manually, but I need this to be automatically, once they purchase the membership.

I was thinking that to do this, I would had to add code that basically says: if the product that you purchase is "BLA", then update the customer's group pricing. The problem I have is that I am not very familiar with how checkout process.

[Ajeh]

Is this a buy once and forever in the Group?

Or, is this based on buy once and in the Group for a time period?

[FreeArticlePublishin]

Is this a buy once and forever in the Group?

Or, is this based on buy once and in the Group for a time period?

would be nice to have it set to a time period, but a buy once would work for me.

[HappyMom]

For right now, "Buy once" and forever in the group would be good.

At some point, I would also like to automatically deactivate the memberships, since my memberships last for one year, but I know that this will also require changes to the customer tables (additional tables to set the time frame for their membership), but if you could give me some ideas, e.g. list of files to look into, that would also be great.

Thanks!

[Ajeh]

You can customize the purchases on the orders class where the stock is adjusted and when someone buys a given product they are added to a Group ...

You can also customize the function for adding to the cart to disable the ability to buy a Product based on the fact it was already purchased so someone cannot buy twice ... if that is needed ...

[HappyMom]

Where would I find this "orders class"? or which file is it?

I am assuming that this is the page where customers are redirected once their paypal payment was received.


Also - can you give me an idea as where in the file I would make my changes? Sometimes is hard to figure out what is going on the code w/o any comments.

I am currently using zen 1.3.7
Thanks!