Prices

[teesside44]

Hey,

I have been searching the forums and couldn't really find an answer to my question.

I'm looking for a solution to placing a RRP price and "our" price in my actinic layout - for example...

RRP: £21.99
OUR PRICE: £17.99

but obviously when adding to the cart adding the £17.99 price.

I didn't know weather it would be easier to just put the RRP price in the description or have it somehow shown as above... any help would be good.

Thanks,
Phill

[Duncan Rounding]

You could create a custom variable scoped at product level. Then simply add this variable into your product layout perhaps with a blockif around it to block it's display if null.

[JSnow]

Provided that your price is a fixed percentage below the RRP price. You could use the "Displaying Store Prices In Three Currencies" solution on page 41 of the AUG in order to achieve this.

I use it on www splab co za to show the credit card price.

[bangers]

If RRP isn't a fixed percentage of actual price, I would use a custom variable as drounding suggests.
I did so here:
http://www.reelfishing.co.uk/index.html.

I create a custom variable by:
Design > Libary > Variables > Product (right click "New Variable")

Name: RRP
Description: Recommended Retail Price
Prompt: RRP
Place of Setting: Product
Tab Name: Prices
Untick "Allow Use Parent"
Type: Text
Tick "Aloow empty value"

Then in my product layout where I want RRP to appear I add:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22RRP%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22">
<span class="mainrrp">RRP: £<actinic:variable name="RRP" /></span>
</actinic:block>

(block if will only show "RRP: £<actinic:variable name="RRP" />" if a value has been added.)

The span class mainrrp references the style I have set in the css for the new rrp value (I personally like to add a strikethrough and to change the font to a different colur from the actual price).

That's it, easy,
regards
Bangers

[TraceyHand]

just adding an extra vote to Duncan/Lee's method. That's exactly what I do too