sophisticated choice dependant pricing

[bizweb]

Hello,

We have helped a couple of clients to configure and set up Actinic and we're pretty impressed with the features. One potential client has an interesting requirement regarding pricing.

They deal in personally engraved glassware. Each piece has a basic price to which you may add one of the stock designs (adding a certain amount), then you may choose a word or phrase which we'd need to charge for based on the number of words needed.

This level of sophistication does not appear to be standard, and I wonder how this could be achieved... Is it possible using Developer or a little clever Javascript maybe.

Does anyone offer customisation services for Actinic?

[NormanRouxel]

You could just about achieve this with standard Actinic (and a tiny bit of JavaScript).

Use the Single Add to Cart button per page.

Have only 2 products per page.

The first your real product with all the usual prices options, etc.

The other an "Engraving" product priced at whetever 1 word costs. Use the Other Info Prompt for the inscription. On this products product template hide the Quantity box and add some JavaScript to the onchange event of the other info prompt that counts the words and puts that number into the Quantity field.

This would get you pretty much there. You might need a tiny patch to ActinicOrder.pm to disable editing the other info prompt and quantity field when viewing these items in the cart as customers could modify things there without the JavaScript kicking in.

Norman


p.s. You can patch Actinic to do almost anything but it's usually much more complex.
See http://www.drillpine.biz/voilenet/acatalog/More_Products.html for a demo of some extreme calculation based pricing customisation I'm working on.