How to have multiple prices based on qty

[Jack_mcs]

I sell items by the case but also plan on selling them as singles. The only way I can see to do this is to have two categories for each caegory I now have. Something like

Widgets by the case

Widgets single

 

Since I already have 8 caegories, this would mean I would need to have 16 to handle this and it would make the site more confusing to navigate I think. Is there some other solution to this? I looked at using product listing but the work required to set up a large number of products makes using that unnaceptable. The only contribution I could find that comes close to this is Quantity Discount but that won't work in my situation since I have a large variance in pricing.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on what's the best way to do this?

 

Jack

[Guest]

You can do this with Product Attributes. There is even a contribution to make prices look more normal (i.e. it would say something like single $5; case $50 rather than the current single; case +$45). Option Name: Unit Quantity. Option Values: Single and Case.

 

The Attributes Copier contribution would help if you need to apply the attibutes to many products.

 

The Master Products contribution would be another alternative.

 

Hth,

Matt

[Jack_mcs]

Thanks for the ideas Matt. I had played around with Product Attributes but couldn't see how to adjust for different weights for shipping. Any idea on how to handle that?

 

I started to install Attributes Copier and ran across a thread about a distribution called SEC, which contains Attributes Copier as well as some other mods I wanted to install. Master products sounds like it might be the solution I need but I'm concerned about how compatible it is with SEC (since I will probably install that one). Any experience with this?

 

Jack