General price display for general viewers

[los_design]

Hi Guys

Searched around the AUG and the forum but still unclear if the below is possible.

What my client is after is to display a LIST price (for example £100.00) when you enter the site and immediately underneath (as in the customer group price display when logged in) the actual selling price (ie £75.00).

So the price display would be...

LIST PRICE £100.00

YOU PAY £75.00

Add to cart etc...

Is this possible to implement without the need for the viewer to log in?

Thanks guys.

[I-CC]

Because price can vary dependant on the discount group the account customer is assigned to, there is no automatic way to do this...

You could create a custom property called say "discountedprice" and then assign the maximum discounted price an account customer could hope to achieve.

You would then have to assign it manually to each product in its properties, and add something to the product template like:

Discounts for account customers up to: CUSTOMVARDISCOUNTPRICE

Or something like that...

More work, but only way to do it without them logging in.

[I-CC]

PS: To get the discounted price, they still need to login, otherwise they will pay the retail price.

[wjcampbe]

Yes, you can show a LIST PRICE, but only by building in into your product description text.

You could create a new product template to include code similar to

<p>List Price : CUSTOMVAR:LISTPRICE</p>

create the CUSTOMVAR in Advanced | Custom Properties and assign the value on the properties tab of each product.

The wording of the Actinic generated price prompt is controlled on the Product Layout tab - again you can change this on each product. To make it easier, the default can be changed in Design | Options - on the Shop Defaults tab.

EDIT: Code corrected after Norman's post - Thanks Norman.

[NormanRouxel]

Use

<p>List Price : CUSTOMVAR:LISTPRICE</p>

otherwise the browser will interpret those < .. > as some unknown tag and silently eat it.

[los_design]

Cheers Guys

Have created customvar et al and now adding to products.

Looks OK

Maybe needs to be added to the wish list for a built in function (if it isn't already)

The result so far can be found here

=> Thanks to all....

(link will be taken down in about 2 hours) feedback appreciated (works doesn't work etc)
Tried yours earlier Norman , could not get it to work though...not very good with java and when it was in place kept getting ye old yellow triangle so plummed for easy option...

[wjcampbe]

Looks to me as if it works very effectively!