Price Options: How to display actual price in dropdown

I'm setting up a store that sells a small for $5.45 and a large for $12.95. Well, in the dropdown it display the word Large for the large selector and Small -7.50 for the small selector. That's really not acceptable as I think it'll confuse the audience. I would prefer it to display the actual price for the item. Isn't there a module or script that can accomplish this? I just looked at the Zen modules and couldn't find anything.

You should change your products to "Product Priced by Attributes" with no price set.

Then, in the attributes controller, set the price for each drop down.

Remember to add "Please Select the Size" as the default and display item. That way, a customer has to select what size they are ordering.

OK, I think I got it. Check this page out:

http://reggae.esolutions.net/~granolag/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=5

One more question. How do I lose the shipping weight in the listing?

**** EDITED *** Never ever post in a forum, email, newsletter etc. the zenid or zenAdminID or you will be doomed!!** :eek:

Change the weight display in the Admin under Configuration >> Product Listing.

You mean the 'Display Product Weight' row? It's already set to 0. But the weight is still being displayed.

My Bad:oops:
Should have been Configuration >> All Listing.

I've already got Display Product Weight set to 0. But the weight still shows up.

A little off topic but I looked at your site in Firefox and it is wide with the product beside the top section but in IE 7 it is ok.
I wonder though if it would be better to use radio buttons for the choice rather than drop down if that is an option in ZC.
I am looking at this because I am thinking about using Zen Cart for my site when I move it off Stores Online.

Brother Bob

oregonstreetcandleco.com

dbltoe:

You should change your products to "Product Priced by Attributes" with no price set.

Then, in the attributes controller, set the price for each drop down.

Remember to add "Please Select the Size" as the default and display item. That way, a customer has to select what size they are ordering.

Hi, I know it's an old thread ... i followed the above quote and it does what i was looking for ,,, basically i wanted the real price of the item beside the size in my dropdown menu instead of stating how much more the customer has to add to the base price for the next available size, etc ... too confusing i think ... anyway the only problem is in the actual product listing i have no price showing up and in product info the display for the product price i now just have "starting at:" and no price because the default in the dropdown is set to "please select a size" and value 0 ... is my only option now to completely make my site with no prices displaying or am i still setting it up wrong ? any help .. and thank you !

Using the example earlier in this thread, you could start your product at the "Small" price, have the small selection set to 0.00 in the added price area, and have the "Large" show a + 5.00.
You would still use the Pleas Select ######## it would have .00 as well.

hi dbltoe, thank you for the reponse ,,, i actually might have misread your original post ? what i ended up doing is just setting my first option value to be 250ml with prefix price 14.25 instead of my first option value saying "Please Select Size" with prefix price 0 ... that was causing no price to show up ... i liked seeing the "Please Select Size" in the dropdown menu but i'm not gonna complicate things .. thank you again ... maybe when i have more time i'll try to work that in :) ...

If you have anything other than a form of Please Select as the default option in a dropdown the customer can accidentally add an item to the cart that they might not have wanted.

Your "Please Select" would be display only and default. Attached is an image of what it might look like.

dbltoe ... that's awesome ... so simple and i didn't even think of it ! ... thank you so much ...

Glad you got it going. It's a "trick" I learned from ajeh long ago.

Is there a way to shut off the "starting at" on the product page? This is showing up blank when the product price is set to 0.

To paraphrase the announcer from Major League...

Juuussst a little more info please.

Priced by attributes?
Link to the site? yoursite DOT com if you aren't ready for prime time.

dbltoe...I came across the answer when I was looking for something else and now I can't find it back so I can post where I found it. I was wanting to not display the "prices starting at" on the product description page because I did not enter a base price and instead followed the earlier discussion in this thread to use the actual price in the dropdown for price. If I come across the feature again, I'll post the answer.

dbltoe:

You should change your products to "Product Priced by Attributes" with no price set.

Then, in the attributes controller, set the price for each drop down.

Remember to add "Please Select the Size" as the default and display item. That way, a customer has to select what size they are ordering.

Thanks for your suggestion.
But can we move "(+xxx)"?

Thanks & Best Regards,
Sunrise