Global price updating by % - how to do it?

[Guest]

I have just over 1000 items in my store as I ready for the big launch (waiting for my NYS Tax certificate).

 

In each products description, I entered the price that I pay for each item into the Products Price (Net) field. I did this thinking that I could easily do a global markup of all items by a % - say a 20% markup for example.

 

Is there an easy way to do a global price markup? I have seen the Price Updater Contribution, but noticed that it is rather old and wonder if there is a newer method of performing this task that caused this contrib to fall by the wayside. Or, was it developed to its' fullest back in '04 and, in fact, is the best way to do this?

 

I would like to keep "my" price displayed in the product description admin pages while the price displayed to visitors shows "my" price + the 20% markup.

 

I thought that I had solved this markup issue by using the currencies module and changing the US Dollar value to 1.20 (I only accept US Dollars). This displayed the price to visitors correctly (+20% markup) and kept the price shown to me in the description admin at "my" price. Everything seemed to be great until I saw the amount that was charged to PayPal and noticed that it was converted back to 'real' US Dollars and the 20% markup was dropped (I assume all payment processors will do that, but I only tested it with PayPal). I am now going with QuickCommerce (re-branded Authorize.net) for CC processing and if I could figure out a way to pass the 1.20 US Dollars value to QuickCommerce I would be all set. That is probably way over my head!

 

If anyone has a method of doing the global markup, I would be grateful if you would reply to this and inform me.

 

Thanks all...

[Guest]

Did you use a different currency symbol for the 1.2 ratio?

 

This is from the default paypal module in osc

 

tep_draw_hidden_field('amount', number_format(($order->info['total'] - $order->info['shipping_cost']) * $currencies->get_value($my_currency), $currencies->get_decimal_places($my_currency))) .

 

so it uses the order total. Do you see the total being displayed incorrectly during checkout or only when you go to paypal?

[Guest]

Did you use a different currency symbol for the 1.2 ratio?

 

This is from the default paypal module in osc

 

tep_draw_hidden_field('amount', number_format(($order->info['total'] - $order->info['shipping_cost']) * $currencies->get_value($my_currency), $currencies->get_decimal_places($my_currency))) .

 

so it uses the order total. Do you see the total being displayed incorrectly during checkout or only when you go to paypal?

 

I believe that I am going to pursue this further after I get my QuickCommerce account set up.

 

I no longer have the PayPal WPP pro installed and the default PayPal module isn't passing shipping, so I know I need to do some work there too. I was getting a little ahead of myself and there are other things to work on before I come back here and pick everyones brains about my price markup question.