Multiple products in one 'deal'

[TheWarStoreMan]

We would like to bulk up some groups of products to make special deals for the customer.
Basically a customer would be allowed to make 5 'choices' from a list to create the deal, 8 'choices' for a Super Sized deal.
How can I set this up in Actinic? Ideally the customer would select his choices, and they would show up on his packing list with a group price. This list would also go against inventory too, so I can keep track of the parts (which we also sell individually).
Let me know if I am not being clear or if you have any ideas.
thanks!
Neal
TheWarStore

[ditch]

I'm not 100% sure what your trying to do but I suggest to try using actinic components.

Add a product component;
You can add attributes to your product, then link each of these attributes to a product in your catalog using the components dialog box. Then you can use the product dialog box to choice PRICE = Products Price, Sum of Product and Components or Sum of Components depending on how you have set-up your options.

Details of how to set this up can be found in your user guide and in the advanced user guide at http://www.actinicdownloads.com.

[cdicken]

Exactly right - nice one.

[mbailey]

I think the question might have been: How can I get my base price to update automatically if I have several components.

For example, I'm currently writing a site for a notebook PC reseller. They want to list various upgrade options, such as Ram, CD-ROM etc. I've done these as dropdown components that are fed from products hidden from display on the site. But I really have two questions here:

1. How can I get the base price to automatically refresh/update if I select one of the pulldown menus.

2. How can I display the upgrade prices of each component choice without manually adding it into the HTML. If Ram prices change, for example, we'd have to go in and change the HTML display text for every component, even though we'd only have to change the physical price billed once...

Any help on this would be appreciated!

[garyhay]

How can I display the upgrade prices of each component choice without manually adding it

Use a custom var in the top level catalog.

Then use this VAR to display RAM prices. Only then need to update the VAR's details and it will update all instances of this in the site.

[mbailey]

Apologies as this is virgin territory for me...

By custom var (variable - I know that much) do you add a variable under custom properties? And if yes, what do I do after this?

Sorry to ask what is probably a dumb question for these forums, but I've never had to get this deep into Actinic before...

Thanks
Martin B

[Jan]

I do this here http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Quick_Ordering.html BUT the way that I do it only works if the basic products all cost the same amount of money. Is this any use to you, if so I can explain how I do it.

You can do this with components and products but to get the reduced price when 5 or 8 are ordered would mean setting up lots of permutations and settings the prices for them.

Regards,

[garyhay]

All questions are good. Thats what the forums are for. We all learn something.

Goto Advanced>Custom Properties and define your VAR

SDRAMPRICE type of text
PCRAMPRICE type of text

etc..


Now goto Design>Options> Site Defaults

Choose your CustomVars from the drop down list and input your price.

You may need to create a product template to handle RAM prodcuts.

You then add CUSTOMVAR:SDRAMPRICE etc... where you want it to appear in the template

Hope that helps a bit.

Cant do much more as my 20 months is poorly at the moment

[mbailey]

Maybe I did it wrong, but I got the same price appearing across all options within all dropdown menus!

Let me clarify what I'm trying to achieve again, just to make sure I'm not leading everyone up the garden path.

The site will list a number of notebook computers, each of which will have several configurations. There will be a standard config e.g. P4 2GHz, 256MB RAM, 20GB hard disc, CD-ROM. After this there will be several drop down menus:

Hard disc upgrade
-40GB +£30
- 60GB +£50


RAM Upgrade
- 512MB - +£90
- 1GB +£160

CD-ROM Upgrade
- to DVD +£40
- to DVD/Combo drive +£70

There are two issues:

1. At present I have to enter the prices in the HTML field manually. Is there any way that I can take the price of the item (which is set in the hidden product that I have created for each upgrade) and display it to the right of the product name?

2. If someone selects a pulldown to upgrade, is there any way to get the price above to automatically update to reflect the update, or is the ONLY way to see the total price to add it to basket then view cart?

[TheBoyLard]

Can I second this as this is exactly what I'm trying to do!
Sorry for replicating the concept in an earlier thread - Chris, can you delete my thread to save leading people up the wrong path?
And thank you to TheWarStoreMan and mbailey for phrasing the question as I should have done - teach me to spend all night tracking fraudsters

[cdicken]

I'm afraid there is no way to do this at the moment outside of manually changing the prices in the drop-down lists.

We are, however, looking at this for the next major release of the software.

[TheBoyLard]

Afternoon all,

@Chris
I know v6 was only released a few months ago, any idea on time scales?

I would really like to tidy the site up and this would help tremendously as a feature.

Cheers

Andy.

[cdicken]

No news yet. We'll keep you posted.

[Graeme]

I agree!

Would be a very useful feature, is there maybe a work around for this problem?

Somehow map the Productname get the NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME to work and to replace the name in the dropdown or checkbox list ie. in Act_VariantCheckBox.html? Be great if you could.

Any thoughts anyone of a possible interim solution.

Graeme.

[Tijarol]

This is the solution!!!

People, I think that mbailey and the rest are talking about this:

http://commerce.euro.dell.com/dellst...ukdhsdimen&v=d

and

http://www.dataparadiset.com/index_frame.asp (click on ”bygg dator” in top frame and then at the end of the page on “... eller bygg din egen dator !” )

or

http://212.75.85.247/?cid=150297 (click on”PCWIZARD” in body frame)

I have heard from an HTML writer that this type of things is not hard to achieve on client-side (it is basically very primitive code for adding and subtracting). The problem is how “transport” that information to Actinic engine on the server???

Best regards,
MN