Being able to mutiply in an attibute...

[Guest]

I know that you can add and subtract money for attributes. But, can you multiply? For instance, I am wanting it so that if an attribute is chosen then it would mutiply 5% to the total price of the product.

 

What I am doing is adding a product called "Services". This is something that my customers can pay me (without going through paypal) an agreed amount of money. The product is $1 and they would just change the quanity to dollar amount that they owe. For instance, they are quoted $2000 for a service and they would put in 2000 for the quantity to make it $2000. So, in addition to that I want to charge a 5% credit card convenice fee on top of the total price. Make sense? Am I going about this the wrong way?

 

Thanks!

Chris

[dblake]

Wouldnt that get a little confusing for the customer? How are you quoteing them? By email, phone call? Why dont you charge them then? Have them give you there credit card info and just process it that way? Seems like your doing the same step over twice.

 

It sounds like customer is asking for a quote and then you quote them. Then the customer had to go in and put in the quote amount and then checkout? Or am I not understanding clearly?

[Guest]

Wouldnt that get a little confusing for the customer?  How are you quoteing them?  By email, phone call?  Why dont you charge them then?  Have them give you there credit card info and just process it that way?  Seems like your doing the same step over twice.

 

It sounds like customer is asking for a quote and then you quote them.  Then the customer had to go in and put in the quote amount and then checkout?  Or am I not understanding clearly?

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No, you are right. I think I need to clarify a little better.

 

I run an IT Consulting company. So, we invoice customers for services that have already been preformed. Right now, we email the customer the invoice and they pay it with a check and mail the check back to us. This takes a while some times to get the money. I have gotten used to it but, I want to allow them to pay via credit card. They can use paypal but, that gets old and there isn't much marketing to be able to sell other products. So, I want a product on my store that they can pay those invoices (this goes back to the other posting you replied on). But, they still have the option of sending in the payment via snail mail.

 

You know, as I am typing this I think I am going about this wrong. I think they question I need to ask myself is why would I charge them more for me to get payment faster? I should provide an incentative to pay with credit card so, I get it faster. The problem, is that the credit card fees on these invoices would be very high even at the going rate of 2.5% (or whatever it is right now). So, I was thinking of charging a credit card fee to pay online. But, I am wondering if I should even do that.

 

Anyway, sorry for rambling. But, this helped me out quite a bit :-)

[dblake]

Well I am trying to think of a "non-manual" way of doing this. There really isn't because each customer will have a different quote. This is an idea that you could try. There is a contribution out that is separate pricing per customer. You can setup one product called "Services". Then put in the price quote for each customer so they pay the correct ammount. This will tie in with your "hiding products" addition you want to do. What I would so is "hide" the add to cart button on this product, and replace the price with "please call for a free quote, or login to pay for you quote", or whatever you want it to say. Then upon login, the price is displayed and the add to cart button is displayed. I don't know how feasible this will be as you will have so many different customers with different quotes. It will make some work for you as you will have to enter each price, but I guess its not different than what your doing now?

[Guest]

Well I am trying to think of a "non-manual" way of doing this.  There really isn't because each customer will have a different quote.  This is an idea that you could try.  There is a contribution out that is separate pricing per customer.  You can setup one product called "Services".  Then put in the price quote for each customer so they pay the correct ammount.  This will tie in with your "hiding products" addition you want to do.  What I would so is "hide" the add to cart button on this product, and replace the price with "please call for a free quote, or login to pay for you quote", or whatever you want it to say.  Then upon login, the price is displayed and the add to cart button is displayed.  I don't know how feasible this will be as you will have so many different customers with different quotes.  It will make some work for you as you will have to enter each price, but I guess its not different than what your doing now?

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Those are some good ideas. Thanks. I agree that there is no easy way of doing this. But, you have been very helpful in thinking through this. Thanks!