discounted price choices within a product.

[shopstuff]

Hi all,

I am currently looking for a way to get the product choices to reduce the standard price of the product.

Like Dell Computers do, E.g sell a cash register for £100.00 the customer can then reduced the level of service or products they recieve by selecting product choices they in turn deduct from the standard selling price of £100.00.

If this is not posiable in V6 can it be done it any other actinic products without the customer having to log on.

Craig

http://www.shopstuff.co.uk

[wjcampbe]

In v7 Catalog you should be able to do this by setting up a component for each choice, creating a permutation of components with individual pricing on each permutation, selecting price override, and using component price as the pricing method.

You can download a 30 day trial of v7, which will install alongside your v6 installation and test this.

[shopstuff]

Many thanks for the prompt reply, i have downloaded the trial, but unfortunatly it seems that you can not overide the price with a negative amount.

I have set up an example on the trial, hopefully this will explain better what i am trying to acheive. With discounting the product by reducing the service offered.

http://trials.actinic.com/trials/tri..._Counters.html


Many thanks


Craig Regan
shopstuff.co.uk

[jont]

Actinic works from the base price upwards - permutations and options etc add the extra cost onto the base price, you cannot set a negative value.

Taking what Bill has suggested a little further you could create a range of hidden products for each of the components and then set to override the price. Eg:

Product 1000 = "Full Spec Computer" = £1000.00

Then create hidden products for the variations eg

Product 1000a = "Base Unit only" = £500.00
Product 1000b = "Base Unit and CRT Monitor" = £750.00
Product 1000c = "Base Unit with 32mb RAM" = £400.00

HTH

[wjcampbe]

Craig,

Sorry, we did get at cross purposes. You are correct there is no way to apply a negative. My suggestion would allow the user to select the priced items they want included, and return a price for that combination of components - the same end result, but achieved by inclusion not exclusion of features.

[Added after looking at the example page]
You would show the base price with no warranty, then the additional components would add to the base price. The pricing model to use in this case would be sum of product and components.

[jont]

There is a lot of discussion about whether to start with the highest price and remove items or start with the lowest base price and add extras in.

It is very market sector (and product) related. Human nature can make users believe they are being scammed with all the extra add-ins even though the end price is still the same as working it back from a full all-in price. Similarly if every items has say a gift box and users have to remove it if not required that can equally annoy.

It would definately be worth trialling working both options side by side to see which works best for your products and customer base