Price per metre

[tuestunim]

Hi,

What's the best way to do a price per metre item? There's some tubing on the site I'm building that needs this.

Ideally I'd like to be able to choose between the 3 diameters to tubing using a drop down menu then have a text field next to it which multiplies the cost by the number entered.

Any idea of how to go about this? Or do you have a better idea?

Thanks,

Scott.

[NormanRouxel]

This is easy if you only intend to sell by the exact metre.

Just use Quantity on Product Page type sections and in the product description tell the customer to enter the number of metres required in the Quantity field. Price the product per metre. You can use Choice dependent Pricing (see the Help & other docs) to allow for the different diameters.

If you want the customer to be able to enter fractional amounts, then this isn't possible without some tricky custom patching (at least 4 Perl scripts need altered).

[tuestunim]

It's just by the exact metre. Thanks a lot for your help, I'll put that in now

Cheers,

Scott.

[tuestunim]

Is it possible to have the quantity just on this product on a page full of products?

[Luddite]

I'd add a new component called 'diameter' (or whatever), add an attribute and then add your 3 choices to it, including the size and price in the choice name i.e.
'30mm - £10 per metre'
'40mm - £12 per metre'
'50mm - £14 per metre'.

Customers will then select the relevant diameter, and quantity (in this case - no of metres)

make sure you complete the 'permutations' section in your component so that the correct price gets entered into the cart.

Does that answer your question?

Nick

[NormanRouxel]

Scott,

No. The Shopping Mode (Quantity in Cart, Confirmation Page, Product Page) is a per-page setting. If you're not using Quantity on Product Page then it may be advisable to put the informative info (Priced per metre) into the product name as this is all that's shown on these other methods. You don't get the product description except on product pages.

[tuestunim]

Right, got a couple of options running around in my head. Now to figure out the the way I want to do it!

Cheers to you both,

Scott.

[tuestunim]

Now something annoying's happened. Got the quantity and choice things sorted out but when you put the quantity in, for example 10 metres of 12mm tubing that costs £1.50 a metre, it coes up at £15.04 rather than £15.00. I'm assuming it's down to a VAT rounding thing as £1.28 x 10 = £12.80 + VAT = £15.04.

Any idea how to sort this one out?!

Thanks (again)!

Scott.

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic prices and displays products pennies. The internal price is pence ex VAT. This means that certain items can never be exact when shown vat ex and vat inc and are often the odd penny out.

There's no solution other than using prices that happen to round correctly.

[Luddite]

You could have a look at this thread:
http://community.actinic.com/showthr...t=VAT+rounding

Nick

[tuestunim]

I think I'll just leave it and say somewhere in the T&C's or somewhere that there are a few issues.

I had a look at that thread and all I've done is sit here nodding and agreeing with the annoyance that it causes! Just one more decimal place would sort it all out (although there may be a few exceptions still).

Come on Actinic, easily done surely? A patch would sort that out after maybe half an hour's worth of re-coding (I'm not a coder, by the way, so my estimate may be way out!).

Scott.

[NormanRouxel]

Actually it would be a huge job. It's been discussed many times on these Forums.

There are workarounds (via setting custom tax rates for the affected product). A bit of searching will find some help.

What IS the correct price for a £1.28 Ex VAT item anyway. I see it as £1.504 and sure enough if you buy 10 of them you should charge £15.04. Now you may choose to use £1.50 as the Inc VAT retail price but lets say you're the electricity company and you're going to sell 100 million of these. There's no way the Revenue will let you off with not paying the £400,000 difference.

[Jan]

Have you tried using the different tax rounding options, you can choose to round per item or round per line. It looks as if you might be rounding per line but need to round per item.

Regards,

[tuestunim]

That's done it! Thank you very much indeed.

You're all a bunch of ultra-knowledgeable gurus aren't you?!

Thanks again,

Scott.

[Luddite]

That's done it! Thank you very much indeed.

You're all a bunch of ultra-knowledgeable gurus aren't you?!

Thanks again,

Scott.

Jan & Norman might be - but i'm afraid I live up to my username!

Nick