Customer Groups and Pricing of Components???

[GreyKnight]

Okay, I think I must be doing something fundamentally wrong here.

The site I'm designing is for registered customers only, so they have to login to access the store. Some customers are sold products at cost + 10%, others at cost + 15% and so on, so obviously they belong to customer groups with appropriate pricing structure applied to the various groups.

I have two major problems stemming from this. Firstly, if your products have components which cost money to upgrade to, then you have to actually type in the price of the component next to it's name in the choice list (ie, "Upgrade to MEDIUM £20", "Upgrade to LARGE £30" etc). Now the upgrades need to be subject to the same markup percentage as the main product, so the price of the component needs to change depending upon what customer is logged in! At the moment the price is visually hard coded into the name of the choice, so how am I supposed to make the "visible" component prices change automatically dependant upon the price structure?

Secondly, if you choose OVERRIDE in the prices tab for a component, then the override price applies globally across all customers when ideally I want it to be subject to the pricing structure for the customer who is logged in. The only way I can see around this is to create actual products for all the variations of the components rather than overriding the price of the one component which is a bit of a nightmare. Am I correct?

Thanks for your help - I'm almost there

[Nadeem]

Hi there

At the moment the price is visually hard coded into the name of the choice, so how am I supposed to make the "visible" component prices change automatically dependant upon the price structure?

As you know Actinic cannot show the components prices, this is only shown once you added to cart. The only way i can see this being done, is using Custom variables with javascript. But i would not know how you could integrate the information to get the information on the choice from the .cat files.

The only way I can see around this is to create actual products for all the variations of the components rather than overriding the price of the one component

This is the only way i am afraid

Kind Regards

[mel_bagley]

add to wishlist - if possible

Hi,

I'm working on a site and would like to show the component prices. However the forum posts say its not possible.

Could this be added in the wishlist to be a NETQUOTEVAR which can be show on the website

[Nadeem]

Hi Mel,

I will add this to the wishlist, it has been requested before, but this would be a useful feature.

Kind Regards