I’m planning to create a new online shop. I’m thinking to use the cs-cart or the x-cart script (depends on the answer bellow).
I’will sell only customisable products (digital print) and most of them with quantity discount.
I’ve some question before taking my decision
Quantity discount
I have a discount for buying x time the same item, when I enter a new quantity, the price is not updated in the detail page, is it possible to do this in cs-cart (that works fine is x-cart).
Displaying VAT price and without VAT
For each item, I would like to display both price (with and whitout taxes) because I will have BtoC and BtoB
Different SKU for product combination
Is it (still) possible. I found a post who describe it, but I couldn’t display the field
Selling per square meter
That will require some AJAX, I would like that the customer could enter the length and the width. That will give me a value in square meter that I would like to use as a quantity
The price will reflect changes in the quantity. If there are quantity discounts configured then the price of the item will take that discount into account.
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Displaying VAT price and without VAT
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I don’t belive this is done by default. However, it would be a relatively simple modification to do so.
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Different SKU for product combination
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Standard functionality
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Selling per square meter
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Not standard behavior that I’m aware of… But I’m sure there are others who have had this need and can probably help you address this problem.
For starters, you would need a simple mod which you could call “Unit of Measure”
This would consist of adding an additional field to the CS-Cart database named “UM” (choices might be each, cartons, cans, gallons, square feet, square inches, dozen, bushels, pecks, etc, etc.)
Then you would need the ability to assign the correct unit of measure within the product details section when adding your products.
Finally, the new “Unit of Measure” field would need to be displayed within the product details page template of your storefront.
It is not difficult to assign a selling price to a product regardless of the U/M you wish to sell it as, the only tricky part is conveying this information to the customer so that they fully understand how you are pricing & selling the product to them, thus this additional U/M field should be an additional field displayed next to the product price.
In your example, (which appears to be similar to fabric sales) you mention converting length & width dimensions into square meters, so you would certainly also need a conversion calculation to occur behind the scenes in order to change the ordered quantities accordingly.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]The price will reflect changes in the quantity. If there are quantity discounts configured then the price of the item will take that discount into account.
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Would be great if the price could change dynamically when the customer changes the quantity. Most off the product I will sell will have quantity discount
[quote name=‘Struck’]For starters, you would need a simple mod which you could call “Unit of Measure”
This would consist of adding an additional field to the CS-Cart database named “UM” (choices might be each, cartons, cans, gallons, square feet, square inches, dozen, bushels, pecks, etc, etc.)[/QUOTE]
Would be great if the price could change dynamically when the customer changes the quantity. Most off the product I will sell will have quantity discount
