price per fixed quantity

[andy_1984]

currectly doing a website for the print company im working for and im trying to find a contribution for fixed quantities.

 

example:

 

we sell business cards in boxes of 1000 = £55, 2000 = £??, 5000 = £??, 10000 = £??, 20000 = £??

 

i found the price break per quantity but not what i was expecting, the user can still input 1 business card!

 

cant find what im looking for on the contribution site :(

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

currectly doing a website for the print company im working for and im trying to find a contribution for fixed quantities.

 

example:

 

we sell business cards in boxes of 1000 = £55, 2000 = £??, 5000 = £??, 10000 = £??, 20000 = £??

 

i found the price break per quantity but not what i was expecting, the user can still input 1 business card!

 

cant find what im looking for on the contribution site :(

Off the top of my head, your quantities should represent boxes of 1000. Then your Price Break per Quantity should work fine.

 

Just put in the description that you sell boxes of business cards, not single cards.. I would think that if anyone put 1000 in a quantity box and went to check out it would become obvious to them.

[andy_1984]

Off the top of my head, your quantities should represent boxes of 1000. Then your Price Break per Quantity should work fine.

 

Just put in the description that you sell boxes of business cards, not single cards.. I would think that if anyone put 1000 in a quantity box and went to check out it would become obvious to them.

 

then im relying on the customer not to input 1001 business cards ?. i have had people ask for only 900 business cards before. we just took the hit and ordered 1000 business cards as we still profited we just took 100 to use as samples of our work. people are strange.

 

i cant rely on the customer reading the full description, we would have complaints if they ordered say 1500 business cards and only got 1000.

 

printers wont do print runs like this. they use one large sheet of paper they know will fit 1000 business cards. so if they had to use a second sheet for another 500 business cards thats half a sheet wasted and the cost still passed on to us as they just discard that sheet, most wont even entertain 1500 they just say we do 1000, 2000, etc etc :(

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

then im relying on the customer not to input 1001 business cards ?. i have had people ask for only 900 business cards before. we just took the hit and ordered 1000 business cards as we still profited we just took 100 to use as samples of our work. people are strange.

 

i cant rely on the customer reading the full description, we would have complaints if they ordered say 1500 business cards and only got 1000.

 

printers wont do print runs like this. they use one large sheet of paper they know will fit 1000 business cards. so if they had to use a second sheet for another 500 business cards thats half a sheet wasted and the cost still passed on to us as they just discard that sheet, most wont even entertain 1500 they just say we do 1000, 2000, etc etc :(

No, you force them to only put 1, 2, 3, etc. NOT 1000, 1500, 2000, etc.

[andy_1984]

No, you force them to only put 1, 2, 3, etc. NOT 1000, 1500, 2000, etc.

 

i must be missing your point?. from what i understand the price break per quantities they can still type in the quantity box 143 for example. how would i force them ? ideally they would select 1000, 2000, 5000 from a drop down box not an editable quantity box.

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

i must be missing your point?. from what i understand the price break per quantities they can still type in the quantity box 143 for example. how would i force them ? ideally they would select 1000, 2000, 5000 from a drop down box not an editable quantity box.

Then you are in for some editing. Changing all the code that creates the quantity text box to drop down quantity boxes. It can probably be done.

 

But, you will then also have to change the function that determines the price because it will calculate the value selected by the price each.

 

Then you will have to change the functions in the shipping modules to calculate the shipping correctly.

 

I'm not saying it can't be done, but to have it working in a matter of minutes sell you product in boxes of 1,000. People are not as stupid as we think. They understand purchasing boxes instead of singles.

 

I just think that if it were my shop I would think the economic benefit from all the editing would not outweigh the return.

[knifeman]

currectly doing a website for the print company im working for and im trying to find a contribution for fixed quantities.

 

example:

 

we sell business cards in boxes of 1000 = £55, 2000 = £??, 5000 = £??, 10000 = £??, 20000 = £??

 

i found the price break per quantity but not what i was expecting, the user can still input 1 business card!

 

cant find what im looking for on the contribution site :(

I am using an old version this mod:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1242

In addition to the price breaks per quantity, there is another box that says:

can only order in blocks of X quantity

If you put 1,000 in that box when entering your product details it does like Mark suggested. The customer enters 1 in their cart and they get 1,000. If they enter 1500, they would get 1,500,000.

 

I am using version 1.11.2

Had no need to ever update the mod as it does what I need, so I don't know if the feature was removed or not.

 

Tim

[andy_1984]

thanks for the replies guys, guess its over to the coding then. the customer is paying decent money for this site so ill give them a seamless product without any (in my opinion) nasty hacks which requires the end user to think a bit more.

 

changing the coding for the quantity box isnt a problem for me, im just not looking forward to coding the add product section in admin and changing how the database is written and read :(

[jhande]

Silly question.... Why wouldn't product attributes work?

[andy_1984]

Silly question.... Why wouldn't product attributes work?

 

i thought the same thing last night in bed just as i was about to drop off to sleep so kinda forgot it, cheers for reminding me. ill give that a shot i can see this definitely working and i can just remove the quantity box from view :D

[jhande]

No problem Andrew.

 

I need reminders all the time. :blush:

 

I originally used the product attributes for a similar situation.

 

Just remember that your base product will be 1000 = £55. :thumbsup:

 

Good luck!

[andy_1984]

No problem Andrew.

 

I need reminders all the time. :blush:

 

I originally used the product attributes for a similar situation.

 

Just remember that your base product will be 1000 = £55. :thumbsup:

 

Good luck!

yeah i just tried it out its a good solution, dont know why i didnt think of it sooner. all i need to do now is make it look good

[jhande]

Glad to hear you have it worked out.

 

:thumbsup: