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5 Oct 2006, 3:36 PM
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Sell Entire Category

I have individual products for sale in my zencart. I would like to be able to sell a whole category(volume) at a discounted rate. So the customer can click on the category (volume) and be able to purchase the whole "kitten-caboodle." Is there an easy way to go about doing this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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5 Oct 2006, 5:41 PM
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Re: Sell Entire Category

There is no built-in facility to auto-select all products in a given category and add them all to your cart at one time.

You could, with great caution and with your advanced HTML+PHP coding manuals handy, try to construct a special input form that could submit all products via a single click. But its contents wouldn't be built automatically -- you'd have to manually code each link. With even more advanced PHP coding and lots of time on your hands, you could write a script to build such a button for you. As a twist on that, you could build a similarly advanced script to cycle through all the relevant products and do the add-to-cart actions for all of them. You're looking at custom coding to do all that. It can be done though. Perhaps a post to the commercial-help-wanted area might be logical (depending whether you possess PHP coding skills to do it yourself or not)?

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5 Oct 2006, 5:47 PM
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Re: Sell Entire Category

I think, since we'll need to ship the volumes anyways, I might just create a mail order product that the customer will purchase and we'll just send the CD(volume). Thanks for your input tho.

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