Dynamic changing of prices !? IMPORTANT !

[Tijarol]

One very important question. If this is possible to achieve, it maybe already is, it would take the Actinic solutions 100 tears forward, At least.

Just look at this page first that all of you have in your computer Actinic help section:
C:\Program\Actinic Ecommerce v6\Sites\Site1\PreviewHTML\P_index.html
or the picture just under title “Actinic Ecommerce Software” located at http://www.actinic.com

Question:
Is it possible to do so that the prices actually changes live – depending what the customer is choosing for component. Just like in this shopping site:
http://www.dataparadiset.com (chose “bygg dator” in the upper meny)

Maybe this is before its time for Actinic :(

Best regards,
Tir

[andyk]

I've been playing around a lot lately, integrating actinic with php and i've found you can make actinic pretty flexible... (for instance i've recently added tell-a-freind and customer comments functionality to a shop i'm working on).

Because the price is a variable, it would be really easy to pass the price to a php function (in pounds) and then change it into another currency (e.g. euros).

Infact, it wouldnt be at all tricky to make it set a cookie to remember the currency choice and change it throughout the site.

Obviously at somepoint the user would have to select their chosen currency, but that could be done with a couple of links at the top of the page...

So in answer to your question... yes it would be possible, but it may require you to know a bit of php.

Well thats my solution anyway... there may be a way to do it within Actinic, but i'll be buggered if i know what it is ;)

[Tijarol]

So basically you are saying that ”build you own computer” function is possible to achieve? With live price changing depending on which component the customer is choosing? Just to avoid any misunderstandings – look at this example of what EXACTLY I want to achieve:

http://www.webvaruhuset.com/ (click on “Läs mer och konfigurera här” in the body frame

If someone could help me to integrate this in the Actinic – I would pay. If it is a woman – I would ask for a date ;)

Pay attention to the price at the bottom of the page. It is updating itself as soon you make a different choice.
Please give me some information…

Best regards,

[cdicken]

Just for the record, I have never been able to work out how to do this. It may be that this is not possible at the moment.

I guess the date's off then :)

[NormanRouxel]

It may be that this is not possible at the moment.

Well that got me going:) I think I've managed it. You have to include the component prices (in brackets) as part of the description of that option. See the demo site PC product. From then on it's completely automatic.

See the attached screenshot.

I may keep this as a paid-for patch but as you prompted me to knock it up you're welcome to a free copy. Let me know your e-mail address and I'll send you the details.

Norman

[Tijarol]

You made may day!
“Suddenly, again, I found the meaning of life”…
Fantastic work!
If it works, it is really a turn key in e-biz software development. I can’t find words to describe the feeling…
Just send it over:D
I want to see that with my own eyes.

Somehow I feel that this is only a beginning. I have a plenty ideas of this calibre:D

Thank you very much!
Best regards,
T.J.

[NormanRouxel]

T.J.,


You'll have to enable your e-mail address in your profile or post it here as I've nowhere to send it to at the moment.

Norman

[Tijarol]

Hi again!

Very true. Sorry.
Here we go:
bojans.forum@telia.com

I'm waiting:D

T.J.

[Sly9er]

My client wants to be able to take donations from it's site visitors.
How could we include the ability to allow the client to decide the dollar amount in a text box, and then submit the donation as a product within the catalog?.
Now this would be a truely serious advantage for all the non-profits out there using Actinic Business!!!!
I can't wait to see if you can do sokmething with this!!
John King

[NormanRouxel]

Have a $1 product with "Quantity on Product Page" and let the donor choose how many they want to buy. They can thus donate between $1 and $32767.

If you want to get fancy then comment out the quantity code in the product template and replace it with something like

Number of dollars to donate <input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE value="1">.

Or use a SELECT statement with a range of preset OPTION values instead.

Also, I believe there's something in the Advanced Guide regarding donations.


Norman

[Sly9er]

Thanks Norman,
I'll play around with it.

[Darren B]

Norman

could i talk to you somemore about the price being variable.

I have nearly all my product options set by drop down menus, such as width, length, colour. at present i use the extended info panel to popup a box with the price table in and i am wondering if this would work for me. Every variation has a different price and they all have there unique part numbers, the actual items are hidden on the website.

If you have a look at my site and add something to the basket you'll see what i mean.

Thanks
Darren :)

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

I looked at http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/roofkits.html and this is more complex than I think my mod can handle.

Your final price isn't known until BOTH a width and length are selected.

What my mod does is allows you to have a price associated with each option and sums these. Like the computer example on the Actinic demo site. You have to include the price of each item within ( and ) on the drop down list's choice. Your example doesn't work that way as it's the 2 slections that has to be made simultaneously, not 2 separate selections.

I'll have a think about your problem and see if it can be automated.

Norman

[Darren B]

Thanks Norman

I did wonder if this might be a bit different. I also run purpose written discount structures that allows certain products to have discount and other not to, but this is calculated within the shopping basket.

its a nice piece of script, mind you it cost me more than developer did.

Cheers
Darren :)

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

I managed to fudge up something that hijacked the Push Button Matrix way of having a set of Add to Cart buttons to display a table of prices for each combination of size and width.

This way you could display something just like your popup price matrix on the product page. It was only a quick-and-dirty test but it seems like it could be done. More later.

Norman

[Sly9er]

Hi Norman,
I tried out your suggestion about putting in a
fancier way to let people donate money in whatever
amout they want.

Number of dollars to donate <input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE value="1">

But this method puts out a script error saying that the product DO-01 has been removed.

Any suggestions?

Hope to hear from you soon - John. :)

[NormanRouxel]

You've a missing quote character in

<input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE value="1">


it should be

<input type=text size=6 name="Q_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" value="1">

Norman

p.s. I've just finished another big extension to Actinic that allows the price to be directly entered for a product. Thus allowing the input of a donation in any form. You can see it in operation (along with some other calculations) on:-

http://www.drillpine.biz/voilenet/acatalog/More_Products.html

where we're calculating the cost of a curtain depending on the amount of fabric needed for it.

[pinbrook]

Norman

Did you ever release the simpler version of component summing....

I'd be interested in it..

[NormanRouxel]

Did you ever release the simpler version of component summing....

It's working now but isn't totally automatic. You have to include the option price in the description of the choice within brackets. This isn't too much of a pain as you have to tell the customer what things will cost anyway. The code looks for that and creates an array of prices which can then be used to display the total value of that product and it's selected chouces, components or permutations.

As it's quite complex it's not free, I'm afraid. No perl patching is needed just a lot of JavaScript and some major mods to the product variant templates.


Someone's already using it to sell computers where you build a system from parts and wanted the customer to see the total price as various bits were added.

Also this thread prompted me to write another big Perl extension that allows the cost of an item to be entered on the product pages.
Someone else was selling a perishable product and needed the capability for the customer to enter the price that they were willing to pay.
Instead of doing a one-off I made a general purpose extension.
A charity could use this as you could donate in whatever amount you like instead of a set number of product quantities.

This also allows quite complex calculations to be made that set the product price (where components / choices etc just can't do it). An example is bespoke curtains where the fabric is charged by area and length of edging, etc.

Norman

[Darren B]

Hi norman

i know your busy, but did you ever get any deeper into my problem? Because i use many variations for a product, although all these choices refer to a unique part number for each different variation.

if not do not worry but it would be handy for the future. I also hope actinic solve the problem of allowing customers to enter part numbers on a simple page rather than trying to find the products featured in our printed catalogue.

Cheers
Darren :)

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

Could you remind me what it is that you want to do please and post the URL of an example page.

Norman

[Darren B]

Hi norman

It was elier in the thread, the script you have written would not work with my set up because i have length and width to select before it gave you a price. but what you did say is you had a go at hijacking the extend info button, i use for price tables, and that you could possibly make the pop-up box show the price of the selection they have made.

I hope this helps

you also looked at http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/roofkits.html
this link is probably the esiest one to work with although this one has more variables to it
http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/16mmpoly.html

thanks for getting back to me

Darren :)