Guest Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 First of all, I want to thank Ian C Wilson, Linda McGrath, and Bao Nguyen. I've installed Contributions from each of you, and they have been great. Also a big thanks goes out to the osCommerce team and everyone that has helped me out over the last year... Now onto my dilemma... I am making my own products to sell on the osCommerce website that I am designing, and also want to sell those items wholesale, generally in boxes of 12. I was thinking of just having a box of 12 included as an item in the category, but I don't really want to let the retail customers on the site see the wholesale prices. There are the contributions of Customer Specific Discount percentage, and i'm thinking I could set that to a # in the customers account. But I still have the same database with inventory, and it still has a single item, not a "Box of 12". The best idea I had, but didn't work, was use the contribution "Show prices when loged in, and have a separate osC site in a folder /wholesale/. If I logged in as a "Retail customer" on www.my-domain.com, went to the www.my-domain.com/wholesale/ login page and clicked on any link in the wholesale side, it went to that page (I configured the pages to return you to the login page if you were not logged in yet). It was obviously still getting the password/account info from the main area of the site. Is there a way to strip that info if you went to that page? Am I missing an obvious idea here, or does anyone have any other suggestions?
Ajeh Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 You could set up two prices for each product and a customer setting for which price to show. Or, if it is an across the board discount that all prices are XX% off then there are discount member add-ons you could use. Kind of depends on how you want to offer your wholesale price on a product.
Guest Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 I would like them to be totally different products completely. The retail customer could purchase 1 item individually, whereas the wholesale customer could only purchase that item in quantities of 12 -with the substantial discounted price. This may be getting too confusing to try...
Guest Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 i forgot to mention, the wholesale box of 12 would also need to be able to have 12 attributes, so they could select separate colors, etc. for each item sold in the box. So it almost seems to need separate inventory items.
hobbzilla Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 Trust me as your inventory increases.. If retail customer buys the same thing as wholesale customer... don't make multiple products to accomodate each group. Your best bet is set up a customer class as previously mentioned with pricing set accordingly. Eventually, I will hack osC to allow for a quantity price classes and contrib it back.. will be a while ;) ie. PRODUCT_A Retail 1-12:5.99,13-99:4.99,100-*:3.99; Wholesale 1-11:NA,12-24:3.99,25-*:1.99; Where #-# are quantity ranges. and NA means not available
johnglobal Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 Ryan That sounds great, when you say a while are we talking 6 months or more ? Thanks John
RickChase Posted November 20, 2002 Posted November 20, 2002 You could set up two prices for each product and a customer setting for which price to show. This is exactly what I want to do, but with three price ranges. Can you elaborate on how I would actually do this? I have searched the contribs and found nothing that does what I want. Thank you.
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