Minimum order for a category

[robmackley]

One of the sections in my customer's store has specialist products which they get direct from the supplier when they receive an order. However, the supplier will only send the products out if the order value is over £500.

So, my question, is it possible to set a minimum order value for a single section?

Thanks!

[robmackley]

Any ideas on this anyone?

[Mike Hughes]

Generally, bumping a post achieves very little and just annoys people who take a look only to see that nothing has changed. If people haven't replied it's usually because they have nothing to say on the subject.

As far as I know there is no way of doing this.

Mike

[Kirk]

I've tried to figure a way to do this one for ages and so far the best solutions for me have been:

1. Set minimum order quantities for specific products.

2. Add text to the product description stating that "products in this section must exceed $xxx.xx. Feel free to mix and match, etc."

So far, this has worked surprisingly well.
In the few instances where the customer placed an order below minimum, we contacted them and they upped the order.

I realize neither are exactly what you are looking for, but maybe will help a little.

[robmackley]

Hi Kirk,
and thanks for your helpful comments!

It's good to hear your 2nd solution works well. As you say most people won't order less than the minimum if you've told them they can't.

I'm thinking about having a <div> layer pop up with the minimum order message on the parent page for this section. People then have to actually close the message before going any further. At least then they acknowledged they ready the message by closing the layer. Might get a little annoying to some users but I guess I'll just have to put it in place and see how it feels.

I'll post a link when done!

[robmackley]

As promised here's the link to my solution using a 'div' layer to ensure the visitor knows about the minimum order requirements of this particular section.

http://www.laukgroup.com/acatalog/Special_Lighting.html

Here's the code snippet I used for pages in this section. Note the surrounding 'block if' so we don't get the message on every page:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SectionLevel%22%20%2f%3e%20%3c%3d%202" >
<div id="transparentbg" style="

filter:alpha(opacity=80);
-moz-opacity:.80;
opacity:.80;
width:1500px;
height:1500px;
z-index:100;
background-color: #fff;
clear: none;
position:absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
text-align:center;
margin-left:-750px;
margin-top:-750px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div id="message" style="
width:600px;
height:auto;
background-color: #999;
clear: none;
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
top:100px;
z-index:200;
margin-left:-300px;
margin-top:0px;
border: #555 solid 7px;
text-align:center;"><br/><br/><br/>
<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; color:#fff;">Please note that there is a minimum order requirement of &pound;500 <br />
on the products in the &lsquo;Special Lighting&rsquo; category</p><br/><br/>
<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; color:#fff;"><a href="#" style="color:#fff" onclick="MM_showHideLayers('message','','hide','transparentbg','','hide')">[x] close</a></p><br/><br/><br/>
</div>
</actinic:block>