Set-up charges, price breaks on options

[rratt]

Dear All,

 

I'm having trouble getting my shop set up the way I want it. What I have at the moment works and is a good start but for my needs not quite finished.

 

I'm working on a site for a custom (printed / embroidered) clothing shop which will be selling in volumes. I've used contributions to give minimum order per product and quantity price breaks functionality which both work great.

 

Currently I'm pricing all items to include one embroidery and a digitisation (set-up) charge for the logo being embroidered. This is what I have up live for the time being, you can see the shop at www.tabswear.co.uk.

 

I would like to have the embroidery price added on to the garment. You can do this using attribute options but this dosn't use the price breaks which is important. So that's my first problem getting price breaks to work for attributes.

 

My second problem is with the set-up charge. The way we work is that for each different logo being embroidered there is a set-up charge, call it ?50. I have factored this into my product pricing for now. This means if someone were to order 50 polo shirts and 50 jackets all to have the same logo they would be paying for the logo set-up twice. So I need a way to work out how many different logos there are in the order. Also we need to establish if the design already exists on file as if we already have the design on file from a previous order there is no charge.

 

I had the idea of making a customer gallery feature where you can upload your logos. Then on the product info page you can assign your logo to the garment as an option. If we have the digitised logo already set-up and on file (or the customer is supplying this) there is no set-up charge. When the customer goes to check out we would be able to tell how many different logos to charge digitisation on. This is far to complicated and I woudn't know where to start. If anyone has any ideas let me know.

 

I've searched the forums, looked at different contributions (Master slave products looks intersting) but I'm still stuck. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate your input. I think this would be useful to other people as well.

 

Thanks,

 

Richard

[rratt]

There havn't been any replies to my post but there seem to have been a fair few views and at least one person has left a rating. So I though that while I'm browsing the boards I'd post a follow up to show how I've got on with this project.

 

I'm having trouble getting my shop set up the way I want it. What I have at the moment works and is a good start but for my needs not quite finished.

 

It seems that with the functionality in the stock osC and the many great contributions available there are several ways to approach acheiving what you'd like for your shop.

 

I'm working on a site for a custom (printed / embroidered) clothing shop which will be selling in volumes. I've used contributions to give minimum order per product and quantity price breaks functionality which both work great.

 

I've also used and experimented with other contributions some of which I've altered by hacking away at the code and some I've decided I don't need.

 

The price breaks contribution is essential to my site, this has since been updated and I've messed around with the code to alter the layout of the price formater. You can see what I've done by browsing our site - if there is anyone who needs help doing something similar I'll do my best to help. Unfortunatley I haven't managed to apply price breaks to the attributes as yet. Maybe someone will release a contribution or I'll be able to come up with a solution but in the meantime I'm just offering 1 embroidery and therfore factoring this into the price. By sorting out price breaks for the options I should be able to let the customer chose to add as many embroideries as they'd like.

 

I've managed to get around the set-up charge problem by making set-up options into products and placing them in a category hidden until checkout. This is not an ideal set-up but it does work at least. In my offline development site I have used the option type contrib to allow for text entry and file upload on options so that you can for example add a slogan and picture to a t-shirt. I still need to work on some way to enforce a set-up charge for each NEW customisation but not for exisiting customisations. Again there are a few ways I think you could go about this. Once I can get this worked out I'll post on the boards as I think it would be useful to a lot of other people.

 

I had the idea of making a customer gallery feature where you can upload your logos.

 

The thinking behind this was that a customer could upload their logos to later apply to our products. I don't think it would be too difficult to create a new table in the database for the gallery. The part that would need a bit of thought would be how to allow these to be used as option attributes on the products. As mentioned a charge would need to be added at acheckout for each new logo being used. Again I havn't seen a contribution like this yet and I think it would be useful to stores in many other areas as well - so I'll try to post something when I've made some progress.

 

If you've browsed our site and there is anything you think is interesting on there (osC wise) you would like to do yourself post me a mesasage and I'll let you know what contrib I've used or how I've done it.

 

Thanks,

 

Richard