I have a bit of a dilemna in which I found the wholesale price group I created would not work for all of the products in a store because of a difference in quantity/pricing in retail versus wholesale for one category of products. So, I am looking for some input. Below are the details:
My client has a store up and running. It services both retail and wholesale.
Retail customers get to purchase all products, but at the retail prices, of course.
Wholesale customers are already assigned to a price group and all products, since even if the product is not offerred at a wholesale price, they can still purchase it at retail price if they want it.
Wholesale prices are setup to display on the category and product pages using a strike-though on the retail price with the wholesale price displaying thereafter. [Graphic below.]
wholesale-pricing.jpg
To show wholesale customer their pricing and the difference in retail to wholesale pricing, I have the following on the PROD Page template >> Product Display Layout, plus the Display Predicted Discounts checked:
In similar fashion, I carried that formatting/price display to the CTGY page.
This is all working great, except for one category of products. The issue is that the retail price is lower than the wholesale price for that one category of products, so the price group will not work for that category of products. The simple reason that the retail price is less than the wholesale price is that retail purchases get one of the item for $1.00, while the wholesale customer gets a pack of 12 of that one item for $2.40.
So, what I am thinking I need to do is unassign those products for the Price Group, and then create an Availability Group. Then, assign the same wholesale customers to that Availability Group, and assign those products or that category to the Availability Group, while at the same time indicating that those products are packs of 12 for the price of $2.40.
The site owner would then just assign anyone that applies for wholesale status to both the wholesale group and to that new availabilty group at the same time. Then the category of products would be displayed to the wholesale customers seamlessly...along with the other wholesale products/categories.
My questions:
1. Will this work?
2. Will I need to re-create those products to get them to display with the "pack of 12" with the new price of $2.40?
3. How do I keep those new pack of 12 products from showing to retail customers, or will that happen because of the Availability Group? I am thinking that is how that will work by default when using the Availability Group.
3. Do you think this will be seamless for the wholesale customers, which are also going to be in the Availability Group?
4. Am I far off base or do you think there is a better way to do what I want?
Any input/ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
Jamie
My client has a store up and running. It services both retail and wholesale.
Retail customers get to purchase all products, but at the retail prices, of course.
Wholesale customers are already assigned to a price group and all products, since even if the product is not offerred at a wholesale price, they can still purchase it at retail price if they want it.
Wholesale prices are setup to display on the category and product pages using a strike-though on the retail price with the wholesale price displaying thereafter. [Graphic below.]
wholesale-pricing.jpg
To show wholesale customer their pricing and the difference in retail to wholesale pricing, I have the following on the PROD Page template >> Product Display Layout, plus the Display Predicted Discounts checked:
Code:
<div class="product-price"> Price: <span id="price-value-additional" style="text-decoration: line-through"><mvt:if expr="l.settings:product:base_price GT l.settings:product:price">&mvt:product:formatted_base_price;</mvt:if></span> <span id="price-value" class="bold">&mvt:product:formatted_price;</span> <div id="product-discounts"> <mvt:foreach iterator="discount" array="product:discounts"> <div class="product-discount">&mvt:discount:descrip;: &mvt:discount:formatted_discount;</div> </mvt:foreach> </div> </div>
In similar fashion, I carried that formatting/price display to the CTGY page.
This is all working great, except for one category of products. The issue is that the retail price is lower than the wholesale price for that one category of products, so the price group will not work for that category of products. The simple reason that the retail price is less than the wholesale price is that retail purchases get one of the item for $1.00, while the wholesale customer gets a pack of 12 of that one item for $2.40.
So, what I am thinking I need to do is unassign those products for the Price Group, and then create an Availability Group. Then, assign the same wholesale customers to that Availability Group, and assign those products or that category to the Availability Group, while at the same time indicating that those products are packs of 12 for the price of $2.40.
The site owner would then just assign anyone that applies for wholesale status to both the wholesale group and to that new availabilty group at the same time. Then the category of products would be displayed to the wholesale customers seamlessly...along with the other wholesale products/categories.
My questions:
1. Will this work?
2. Will I need to re-create those products to get them to display with the "pack of 12" with the new price of $2.40?
3. How do I keep those new pack of 12 products from showing to retail customers, or will that happen because of the Availability Group? I am thinking that is how that will work by default when using the Availability Group.
3. Do you think this will be seamless for the wholesale customers, which are also going to be in the Availability Group?
4. Am I far off base or do you think there is a better way to do what I want?
Any input/ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
Jamie
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