Min Quantity displayed in product

[BrianCurtis]

Hi,

I am selling items in pairs and have set the min products available as 2. What I want to achieve tho, is to show the Quantity as '2' on the actual product page where you can add the number manually. It currently defaults to '1'.

Is there anyway to change this without the customer being sent back from the checkout to add the amount as 2 in this textfield?

Thanks

Brian

[Jan]

Hello Brian,

I have just worked on this very thing for a customer. Basically you do not have access to the minimum quantity field in the templates (confirmed by CD a few days ago) so you have to create a custom var for it and then use the custom var in the scripts.

I have written some scripts to create the customvar for all products that do not have one and then another set to update the customvar's value to be the same as the current entry in the product table.

So to get access to the value you just have to click on a button and then when you change the value you just click on a button again to update them.

I would be more than happy to sell these scripts to you (and anyone else watching) as well. I could also do the same for any Actinic or external field quite simply now that I have done the hard work.

Miind you in your case as you always sell the mats in sets of 2 maybe you could just hardcode it in somewhere - or make them a component of a product and set the required quantity to 2, then you will automatically sell them in pairs, unless you particularly want to cope with the case of the three handed DJs that shop with you.

Cheers

[BrianCurtis]

Originally posted by Jan

Miind you in your case as you always sell the mats in sets of 2 maybe you could just hardcode it in somewhere - or make them a component of a product and set the required quantity to 2, then you will automatically sell them in pairs, unless you particularly want to cope with the case of the three handed DJs that shop with you.

Cheers

Hiya Jan,

you know.. you have a point there actually! Some DJ's DO have 3 turntables! I mayhave to think again about this?

Always something simple that stumps isn't it!! Let me know the cost of the scripts anyway..

Brian

[NormanRouxel]

Brian,

I answered a similar query an hour or two ago:-

To have the Quantity preset to 2 edit the Act_ProductLine.html and replace

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY

with

<input type="hidden" name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" value="2"><!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY -->

This will force all product using that template to have a hidden quantity of 2 applied.

If you'd rather that they be able to alter this then do:

<input type="text" size="4" name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" value="2"><!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY-->

Use "Quantity on Product page" type sections WITHOUT the Single Add to Cart. If you do use the Single Add then you'll get every product on that page into the cart all at quantity 2 and you probably don't want that.


Norman

[BrianCurtis]

Thanks Norman, I'll give it a try.

Brian

[BrianCurtis]

Hi Norman,

this works brilliant! BUT - I put the default price for the '2' in the product price as £20 and of course, got a sale of £40!

What I really wanted to do was show the price as £20 (for a pair) and have the price added as '2' at a total of £20.

Is the only way to do this to set the price at the £10 and hard-code the £20 figure into the product template?

Cheers..

Brian

[NormanRouxel]

Is the only way to do this to set the price at the £10 and hard-code the £20 figure into the product template?

I think that's probably the only easy way to do this. You can always comment out the product price netquotevar and put the price text in via a CUSTOMVAR. This way you only need 1 template for all your paired products.

Norman

[BrianCurtis]

Well, something wierd is happening! I have added extra text in Design | options | Shop Defaults to say 'Price Each:' and I aslo changed the name of Online Catalogue to Slikmats Store.

When I preview my store offline I see these changes applied but I have even done a site refrsh and i can't see the changes??

The price per productis showing as £20 and not £10 and the 'Online Catalogue' still remains the same text?

Any ideas??

Thanks gang

Brian

[cdicken]

The whole updating issue sounds like a server caching issue. What I do to check this is to manually delete the file from the server and then refresh the browser and see if the browser sees that it is missing.