Different Prices and weights for the same Product

[Guest]

Hi all,

I'm working on a website that sells packets, ounces, and pounds of seed. Sooo, for the same product, there are THREE products, all which weigh different amounts.

Any ideas?

Also, it would be nice if the user could only buy whole quanites of packes, but decimel quanites of the ounces and pounds.

Thanks for any help!

--Taj

[Ajeh]

Would selling your products showing minimum quantity and units help?

 

Or do you need to be even more specific?

[Guest]

Would selling your products showing minimum quantity and units help?

 

Could you please explain more what you mean? I don't quite get what you mean.

 

What I need to do is sell the same products with a different unit (and thus price).

Thanks for your help, Taj

[Ajeh]

I was asking are you trying to set a minimum qty and ordering that quantity in units, or are you needing to set a specific quantity?

 

Or are you trying to more or less setup 1 product with 3 attributes where each attribute has its own weight to it?

[Guest]

I don't think it would help much... If you have a packet of 1000 poppy seeds the weight is much different from a package of 100 tomato seeds.

 

With some plants a minimum packet of seeds could weigh more than an ounce and with others much less. Also the fact that packets are usually sould by count and not weight makes a big difference in the issue.

 

Now you have to add the fact that he wants to give the users the ability to choose from all three choices (packet, ounce and pound).

 

What really needs to happen is the ability to add a weight modifier on product attributes to make things like this possible.

[Ajeh]

That can be accomplished.

 

Then the attribute weight just needs a weight adjuster so to speak added for calculating the final shipping weight.

 

It's similar to the attribute base price calculation done in my Free Call for Price v4.0 add-on, but different :shock:

[Guest]

Thanks for all the replys.

Wayne Luke: I think your on the right path, ALL the packets cost the same, but the ounces and pounds each cost different amounts across products. For example, a onuce of Mustard costs $11, but a ounce of Lettuce costs $20.

If anyone has any ideas, please post.

Thanks, Taj

[Ajeh]

Can you setup a

Product Group: Weight

Option Values: one for ounce and one pound

 

Now price your Products with both options with their price on a per ounce or per pound

 

The customer then orders 6 in ounces or 5 in pounds and the program does the math

[Guest]

Can you setup a

Product Group: Weight

Option Values: one for ounce and one pound

 

Now price your Products with both options with their price on a per ounce or per pound

 

The customer then orders 6 in ounces or 5 in pounds and the program does the math

 

How?

Thanks, Taj

[Ajeh]

Can you have your products read like this:

 

http://www.thewebmakerscorner.com/working/...products_id=109

 

Then the customer buys either by ounces or pounds

 

If so, these are added with Product Attributes. You would then need a calculator function of sorts to determine the real weight of that product to put the right weight into the cart.

[Guest]

That's pretty close. I also need a fixed price thing, but that should be EASY ;), right?

Thanks, but how can I do it, any tutorials, or is it in the docs, but I haven't found it yet ( :lol: )

Thanks, Taj

[Ajeh]

By fixed price do you mean the product would have a price, then the attributes would increase that price?

 

Example:

 

Sunflower Seeds $2

 

Attribute settings:

Ounces .10

Pounds $1.50

 

Order 2 pounds ... $2 * 2 + $1.50 *2 for a total charge of $7.00

[Guest]

I have been working on implementing something like this.

 

For each 'size' option, additional weight must be added to the product.

 

Where I got stuck is some db_query returns unexpected results and I couldn't quite figure out why...

 

I added values_options_weight to the product_attributes table. I then found references in the php files that used the values_options_price and tried to duplicate those functions but for weight instead... I guess it wasn't processing the function or something....

 

I find it hard to keep track of all the redundant and similar variables. Does anyone use anything like Zend studio for their osC work?

 

For someone that knows osC well -- which files do I need to edit in order to implement this function for the catalog side... ? Why isn't it adding the extra weight when I run the function after it determines the options added price?

 

I have the admin side working fine it adds the values_options_weight to the database along side the values_options_price.

[Guest]

OK, all. This is what I need:

 

Sunflower:

 

Packet: $3.00

Ounce: $5.00

Pound: $10.00

 

The user selectes what they want and then press the order button.

 

Thanks for all your help, Taj

[Jeremy at oddly enough]

Hi, this is sort of along the lines of what I need

 

We sell product by weight, in quarter pound increments. I'd like to show the price per pound as the large number displayed in the catalog, preferably with a /lb after the price, but I want people to be able to order 1/4 lb, 1/2 lb 1lb, 1.5lb etc., and the price to adjust.

 

I know I could just use 1/4 pounds as units, and customers do the math, that's the way my current site is set up on another platform. It is confusing to the customer, and I want to get away from that.

 

Also, just to make it more difficult, it would be cool to set it so the price reflects the extra labour involved in breaking down into smaller units. In effect the small unit comes at a premium, compared to a larger unit, eg $1.50 for a quarter pound, $2.50 for a half pound, and $4.00 for a whole pound.

 

Thanks, Jeremy

 

ps a site that prices this way, but is not oscommerce can be seen at:

www.witsendmosaic.com.com

[Ajeh]

OK, all. This is what I need:

 

Sunflower:

 

Packet: $3.00

Ounce: $5.00

Pound: $10.00

 

The user selectes what they want and then press the order button.

 

Thanks for all your help, Taj

 

You might peek on the demo site for SECv2.2 ... both the Catalog and Admin are setup.

 

http://www.thewebmakerscorner.com

 

There is an option for attribute weight that might be able to help you.

 

You can add some products in the Admin and try out using the attributes weight option. See if this handles things for you.

[coolguy]

I am also looking for the same.

 

To Ajeh in specific, Please help us. there is a contribution which adds "x" operand to the product attributes. with this once the base price is set for an item(this is the least weight of the product we sell say 1 lb) and if we increase the weight in increasing order by 1 lb or whatever we need, and set this "x" operand attribute, then the product price updates automatically according to customer's selection.

 

This is simple and easy and time saver too, like we don't need to change the attributes manually all the time. This contribution is already here...

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,721

 

I am unable to integrate this into the current OSC milestone 2.2 as the code changed. I tried but unable to do it as I am not a programmer(php).

 

If you can hlp update this contribution, I am sure it will be useful for all of us.

 

Regards,

RAV.

[Gata]

I am also very interested in how to sell a product per unit of weight

 

for example:

"certain type of candy"

 

1/4 pound = $2.00

1/2 pound = $2.95

 

where the customer may choose how much to order based on weight, and the total price is then calculated for them.

[Nairn]

*ahem* Me too - but I'm a complete osCom virgin (this is my first post) so I'm not wanting to add any stupid questions..

 

..however, I am looking for a solution where I have a limited range of products (say 10), with the potential to be sold anywhere between a range of 20g - 600g, with a mechanic to calculate an incrementing discount.

 

If anyone has an obvious pointer that I've missed, I'd be grateful!