Need suggestion for adding an extra charge for a particular category

The site I'm working on sells truck parts. There are specific electrical parts where a core charge fee needs to be added. Rather than adding that flat fee to the price of the items, the client wants to have an additional charge added when an item is placed in the cart during checkout. I figured placing those particular items in a specific category may make it easier to identify those types of products, but I need a suggestion as to how to add that extra fee in as well as indicating what the fee is so the customer can see what they are being charged and why. The other thing to consider is whether the core charge would be added to each separate item in that category or whether just a one time flat extra fee would be added no matter how many items in that category are added to the cart. I need to be able to possibly do both. I've seen some posts on the CEON advanced shipper. Would this be the way to go? The client is using FedEx as shipping carrier and may also use UPS as well. Would it interfere with the shipping carrier charges in any adverse way?

Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

Define a radio-button option named "Core Charge Fee" with a value of "Included". Add this pair as an attribute to the product, specifying the attribute as required and having a one-time value of whatever your fee is.

This **exact **feature is built into Twitch Wholesale + Attributes. See the live site that it was developed for here http://twitchparts.com/

Do a search for 'starter' to find core charges.

This adds attribute information to the order from the product page -> shopping cart -> order -> customer email -> admin

Displays core charges to the customer and the admin.

I'm uncertain what changes will be needed for shipping, the core charges are added to the regular attributes fields.

Very good suggestion. I'll discuss this with the client.

Hi Guys,

I added an attribute and called it Core Charge. Added radio button-a value which is just some text referring to the core charge. Then I added the price. I set the attribute flags as
Used For Display Purposes Only: Yes
Attribute is Free When Product is Free: No
Default Attribute to be Marked Selected: Yes
Apply Discounts Used by Product Special/Sale:Yes
Include in Base Price When Priced by Attributes: Yes
Attribute Required for Text:Yes

You will notice that when you go to view the item at http://www.allmakestruckparts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=89&products_id=362, The attribute shows up but also the Please Choose also shows up. I don't want Please Choose to display. Is there a way to turn this off?

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_attributes.php

Change this:

To this:

And see what happens...

Hi Guys,

Did as you suggested. See http://www.allmakestruckparts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=89&products_id=362. I would, however, like to get rid of the text that says Please Choose. Anyway to get rid of that text?

Sorry for posting this twice. Error on my part.

Okay, thanks for the suggestion.

Commenting it out worked beautifully. Thanks!

Hi All,

Spoke too soon. I now have two items that have an assigned core charge. But now, when I try to add one of the them to the cart, I get the following error:

Please correct the following:
On the Option for: Core Charge You picked an Invalid Selection: Core charge added to price. See Core Refund Policy.

What is going on? Anyone know? It worked when I had just one item that had a core charge.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Webmiss

Did Twitch Wholesale + Attributes get installed at any point?

Sorry for being so dumb. No, is that a free or paid plugin and where do I get it? I thought I could just assign a core charge using the attributes controller, you know assigning a name, then a value, which is text, then adding an amount and selecting the attribute flags for each one that has a core charge. But, apparently it is a little more complex than that.

Corinne

Check your Attribute ...

Is it marked as Display Only YES? If so, mark it as Display Only NO ...

From the forum:
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1771

As I mentioned before 'core charges' were written into the module because as you have discovered, displaying them properly and charging the customer properly is essential.

If you're unable to get the module installed, or you run out of options on the forum you could always hire me to install it ;)

Ajeh,

That fixed the issue. I do have 1.5.1 installed.

Twitchtoo,

I did find the module and downloaded it. Thanks.