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17 Apr 2009, 1:45 PM
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Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

Hi, could someone tell me if I could achieve something like this website has:

http://www. 3amanufacturing .co.uk/plain_grip_seal_bags.html?gclid=CPvBzuD695kCFUU_3godyBdWFw

We're selling grip seal bags like the above company. Currently we have stock by attributes installed so the customer picks the size of bag they want from a drop down menu at the bottom of the page.
Thing is, there's no way of explaining the quantity discount PER ATTRIBUTE (this needs to be in currency format rather than percentage as the above website).

I've looked at the quantity discount add-on by Software Guy but I don't think it can really achieve what I'm looking for.

Any ideas much appreciated!

Thanks!

19 Apr 2009, 10:59 AM
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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

bump. Any ideas any one? :smile:

19 Apr 2009, 11:21 AM
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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

Do you have a link to your own site in it's current state?

The link you provided can certainly be achieved but not by just one mod. It will require a lot of adjustments and tweaking.

20 Apr 2009, 12:40 PM
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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

limelites:

Do you have a link to your own site in it's current state?

The link you provided can certainly be achieved but not by just one mod. It will require a lot of adjustments and tweaking.

Sure...
http:// www. tradersupplies .co.uk /bags-packaging/polythene/grip-seal-bags/plain-grip-seal-bags-per-pack-40-45-micron

Any pointers would be much appreciated, I'm always up for a bit of DIY :D.

Is there any way to avoid this becoming a site-wide change? i.e., could it be limited to specific products? (it's not imperative but would be nice).
We like the current drop down menu set up shown in the above link but it's not convenient for some products (such as grip seal bags) where bulk discounts are available, especially if the product page is being used as a PPC landing page and needs to convert clicks into sales.

22 Apr 2009, 8:13 AM
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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

Sorry to keep bumping this but I know someone out there must have a solution! :cool:

11 May 2009, 10:19 AM
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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

I'm not surprised that you're having trouble getting responses to this. It does push the boundaries of what Zen Cart can currently do somewhat. It can be done but it require a fair bit of custom programming.

There are two main challenges. The first (and easiest) is the layout, the other is the underlying need for an attribute to which you can attach quantities, and then go a step further and support discounts based on those quantities.

That you wish to not to apply to all products actually males it a smidgen easier as it says immediately that something slightly exceptional is going to be needed for The first is most easily achieved by creating a new product type. This will cause the template system to look for a special product_info page related to that specific product type, which is where you would bypass the standard attributes layout to achieve the table-based version appropriate to this product's attributes.

More complex is addition of a quantity-supporting attribute. This is not part of core Zen Cart and goes into some tricky code, but it can be done. There's an example of it here, which although looking superficially very different (not least because the quantity boxes are hidden - click on any charm twice and you'll see it added to the product summary twice), is fundamentally what you're looking for. To this would need to be added pricing that takes account of the quantity entered for each attribute, which would be less complex.

That would get you the precise solution for which you're looking. However, there's an alternative approach which makes more use of what Zen Cart already has and overall would achieve approximately the same result, but with less effort and cost.

This would be to create each different-size as a separate product, pop them all onto a category that represents the product and create a custom product listing page for that category that lists them as you wish and takes advantage of Zen Cart's built-in "multiple add to cart" and "quantity discounts" features.

In my view this would have some advantages over the more complex single product option. Each size would show as separate item in the cart and on invoices (which is closer to what I would expect as a customer) and it would be possible to tweak quantities in the shopping cart, which would not be possible with the single-product approach without yet more custom development.

This is a very high level explanation but I hope helpful is showing what options are available to achieve your requirement.

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Re: Stock by attributes and bulk purchase / quantity discounts

kuroi:

This is a very high level explanation but I hope helpful is showing what options are available to achieve your requirement.

Fantastic post. Thanks for your help.