Price per item, sell per box...?

[jxm28788]

I have a new item that is sold in boxes of 10. The boxes should not be split, and must be sold as a box of 10.

All my competitors list the prices on their websites as 'per item', but only allow purchases of boxes.

I also want to put qty discounts on these items.

eg. £5/item, so box of 10 is £50, but...
buy 3 or more boxes and the price is £4/item (£40/box)

I was going to add the 'box' as the product, but then the price will be 'per box' which I don't want (I will be bottom of the list in froogle for example!). I could set the item price as a customvar but that would get unmanageable if I changed the prices on this large range.

So is is possible to have an actinic product but specifiy that in can only be purchased in multiples of 10 for example? Or have a box as the product but somehow automate the 'item price'?

[simonwar]

I have a similar problem.
I sell signs that print multiples per sheet.

I wanted to list my UNIT PRICE per sign and not the ACTUAL MINIMUM a customer has to spend to buy them.

Sorry, I got no resolve...

also I use Molends Product Mash for Google feeds, and they could not pick up a CUSTOMVAR for UNIT PRICE and could only submit my ACTUAL MINIMUM SELLING PRICE.

However, if anything has changed since then I would be interested too.

Happy hunting, S.

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Try this:

- create a hidden product for your 'box of 10' product and set the price breaks (ie, £50 for 1, £40 for 3 etc)
- on the visible product, set the price at £5 and enter the price breaks as £4.00 for 3 etc (this is just to display against the product)
- add a component and associate it to the hidden product and 'use associated product prices'
- on the product, set the 'pricing model' to 'Sum of components prices'.

You can then put a message in the 'full description' to the effect that the product can only be bought in boxes of 10 and the quantity is the number of boxes they require.

I hope this helps.

[maugan]

Hi

I've used this solution and it works great.
The only thing I've found is that the VAT seems to be always calculated at the Normal rate and doesn't use the Custom Tax values (of the hidden product item)

Maugan

[TraceyG]

In your permutations, tick the 'Tax from associated product' box (you may have to scroll along to see it).