Another desperately needed improvement for Shopsite
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:17 pmI'll repeat again here a feature I believe ShopSite is sorely lacking: the
ability to provide both retail and 'dealer' or wholesale pricing. Stores
such as mine sell to both retail and wholesale customers. Now that the
customer registration feature has been implemented, it is a natural
extension to offer different pricing levels to different 'groups' of users
which have been assigned. Every other major shopping cart package at
ShopSite's price point includes this feature.
Currently, one very cumbersome way I can see to achieve this is to create a
coupon for EVERY item in our store, and automatically assign them to the
'dealers' group. But if you change the retail price of an item, watch out! -
the new 'dealer' price resulting from the coupon has changed as well.
Another very time-consuming hack - the one I am currently using - is to
create duplicate "dealer" products at dealer price and place the pages in a
restricted-access location.
For a store like mine, which sells more than a thousand products from
hundreds of vendors who often overlap on the items they supply, I
desperately need a FIXED PRICE to be available for a sub-group of users. It
should be a simple field in the product form:
For example, we now (SS Pro 7.0.3) have:
Price
On Sale Price
Variable Price
Product Quantity Pricing
We should add a Wholesale Price schedule. Thus, you could have 1 level of
'wholesale' pricing, or many sub-levels:
Pricing Level A
Pricing Level B
Pricing Level C, etc
It would be trivial to have registered customers in a specific group receive
the pricing in a specified pricing level. Of course, the retail price
displayed on the static web page would still remain constant, but when the
product is added to the cart the correct value could be displayed.
PLEASE! As a loyal ShopSite user, bug-finder, and fellow Utah businessman,
rescue me from duplicate item / duplicate page hell and implement wholesale
pricing!
Ryan Ricks
www.davesmotors.com
ability to provide both retail and 'dealer' or wholesale pricing. Stores
such as mine sell to both retail and wholesale customers. Now that the
customer registration feature has been implemented, it is a natural
extension to offer different pricing levels to different 'groups' of users
which have been assigned. Every other major shopping cart package at
ShopSite's price point includes this feature.
Currently, one very cumbersome way I can see to achieve this is to create a
coupon for EVERY item in our store, and automatically assign them to the
'dealers' group. But if you change the retail price of an item, watch out! -
the new 'dealer' price resulting from the coupon has changed as well.
Another very time-consuming hack - the one I am currently using - is to
create duplicate "dealer" products at dealer price and place the pages in a
restricted-access location.
For a store like mine, which sells more than a thousand products from
hundreds of vendors who often overlap on the items they supply, I
desperately need a FIXED PRICE to be available for a sub-group of users. It
should be a simple field in the product form:
For example, we now (SS Pro 7.0.3) have:
Price
On Sale Price
Variable Price
Product Quantity Pricing
We should add a Wholesale Price schedule. Thus, you could have 1 level of
'wholesale' pricing, or many sub-levels:
Pricing Level A
Pricing Level B
Pricing Level C, etc
It would be trivial to have registered customers in a specific group receive
the pricing in a specified pricing level. Of course, the retail price
displayed on the static web page would still remain constant, but when the
product is added to the cart the correct value could be displayed.
PLEASE! As a loyal ShopSite user, bug-finder, and fellow Utah businessman,
rescue me from duplicate item / duplicate page hell and implement wholesale
pricing!
Ryan Ricks
www.davesmotors.com