Products with no price

[dave.webb]

Hi all.

On our catalogue we have several products that have no fixed price (for various reasons). For these items, as the current price is £0.00, I have disabled online ordering for them so that people don't order hundreds of them for free.

Is there a way to show "Please call" for the price, rather than just having no price information? I would use the extended information text, but I am using this for a manufacturer part code.

Any suggestions welcome.

Kind regards,
Dave

P.S. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it

[chrishill]

if it was me, I'd edit the product templates and remove 'NETQUOTEVAR:PRICEEXPLANATION' and 'NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTPRICE' then replace '<Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:ADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS>' with your own button which could link too a contact form.

keep in mind that if you edit the main product template every product you enter in a section using that template will have the custom button on it. It would be advisable to make a copy of your act_productline.html file, rename it, then edit and use that one retaining the original just in case.

theres some other stuff you can do with PHP to take the product name and automatically display it as part of the contact form, which is a nice feature!

[dave.webb]

Thanks for replying Chris, that's a very good idea. Am I correct in assuming that....

1. I can specify the modified template for the necessary products individually, and not per section?
2. It's easy enough to specify the product template file in the import csv? I've had a look and it seems so.

I wrote a VB Script to convert an Excel sheet generated by QuickBooks into a CSV, while adding the necessary fields for sections, image file, etc. I could modify this to set a template file if the price is not set.

Thanks Chris.

Regards,
Dave

[chrishill]

you're quite right you can specify individual templates for each product, as for the using the CSV file to select which template is used, i'm really not sure! I would have thought it's possible, but you never know...

Happy to help!

[dave.webb]

Well, it's all done and working. The script now decides which template to use for a product based on it's price, and the import does allow that field to be specified.

Thanks for your help, Chris

Regards,
Dave