Your wholesale prices have a different percentage off for every single
item you sell? You don't have some where the wholesale price is a 5%
discount vs others with a 7% discount, etc?
-Loren
Ryan Ricks wrote:
Actually Jim,
I am aware of the functionality that exists in coupons and groups, and
have
thoroughly evaluated it. I currently have more than 1100 items, sourced
from
more than 50 vendors, and many sourced from multiple vendors. The
wholesale
prices for the items I sell vary widely compared to retail - I dont want
to
create 1100 coupons. I want to fix an absolute price that the wholesale
vendor would receive.
"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:c2ti1b$6v6$1@support.shopsite.com...
This method wouldn't help Mark who said that they only get the discount
if they purchase 6 of an item. That type strategy throws another level
of complexity into the whole process.
Your suggestion could be implemented now (Version 7) by simply creating
a coupon that gives a % off to registered user who are assigned to a
specific group. When the dealer logs in that coupon would automatically
be added to their cart and the % off would be applied to their cart.
This could be extended to allow different discounts for groups of
products by creating coupons for the various product group / percentage
off and assigning them to the wholesale customer group. Again when the
wholesale customer signs in the various coupons will be added to their
cart and automatically applied whenever they put the associated items
into their cart.
Jim
Ryan Ricks wrote:
I would be content with just the SIMPLEST pricing scheme available:
1 price (retail) shown in the store, and
1 price (wholesale or "dealer") available to certain registered
customers.
It wouln't even need to be shown in the store (although that would be
nice).
The "dealer" price could be stored in a field for each product.
Registered
customers who are assigned to receive "dealer" pricing could have the
correct prices calculated as they added items to the cart via order.cgi
As you mentioned, the ways in which this functionality could be
extended
are
practically limitless... and the demands could be as varied as you can
imagine. Still, that is no reason not to implement a basic form of this
service which may meet the needs of "middle of the road" retailers. The
majority of shopping cart software available today, even down to those
whose
price point is less than 25% of Shopsites, offer this functionality in
some
way or another.
"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:c2smii$10o$1@support.shopsite.com...
How many different ways are there that merchants would want to
implement
a "Dealer" pricing scheme? My guess is that there would be as many
ways as there are merchants.
What are ways that you would want
such a feature implemented?
Jim
Ryan Ricks wrote:
Hello Mark,
Unfortunately, your options are very limited here. In my extensive
concersation with them on this subject, Shopsite has no plans to
implement a
dealer pricing functionality, which is somewhat shocking given their
price
point
Anyway, here are a couple possibilities, neither of which
are
very
smooth:
1) Enable variable pricing for all items, and place the dealer 6+
price
in
one of the extra fields, and then make a custom template which pulls
this
value and places it into the price.
2) Make a new directory and password protect it, and then make
"dealer"
pages in this directory, and create "dealer" versions of products,
and
assign them to these pages.
ShopSite, the lack of this feature is a CRITICAL shortcoming in your
current
offering! PLEASE consider implementing a dealer-pricing feature tied
to
the
customer registration in a future release.
"Mark Kroska" <mkroska@kdv.com> wrote in message
news:c2rrop$mpd$1@support.shopsite.com...
I'm setting up a ShopSite 7 Pro store and need to handle this
situation:
dealers get special pricing on items when they order 6 or more of
the
same
item.
I can set up SKUs using multi-product discounts or using a single
sku
with
"Qty 6" in description text, but they need to be hidden from the
typical
consumer (searches, etc).
Also, I can put pages into a seperate directory if need be.
I need help with logistics on making this work. I need to be able
to
train
another end user, so the process can't be extremely difficult or
cumbersome.
One other note: the product selection will change often enough where
I
can't
just "set it and forget it".
I remember seeing another post a few months back about this, but I
need
more
detail.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:18 am