Measure/Price Calculator

[artreadyframes]

First time on a forum.

I have an artist frames ecommerce business. I need a calculating feature for custom frames. (i.e., customer enters 8" x 10" to get the price of the frame and be able to put it in shopping cart). Pro 8.0

Thank you
Art Ready Frames
info@artreadyframes.com

[Jim]

What kind of formula do you use to calculate the cost? You might be able to use the order option feature to do the calculation. Set the product price as the minimum amount. have two order options, one for width and one for height. So it would look something like this.

product price 10.00 for 8x8 add 1.00 for each additional inch of width and multiply that by 1.5 for height. Or you could vary the height values for each additional inch, *1.5, *1.6, *1.7 etc.

Width;n
8;+1
9;+2
10;+3
11;+4
12;+5
etc

Height;n
8;*1.5
9;*1.55
10;*1.6
11;*1.65
12;*1.75
etc

[artreadyframes]

Thank you so much for your post.

We calculate price by the united inch.

8x10 frame = 18 united inches
18 x $3.00/inch = $54.00 (price that would go in shopping cart for one 8x10 frame)

Many thanks,
ArtReadyFrames

[Jim]

Then set the base price of the item at $3.00 (united inch price) and set the options with the combined united inches

8x8;*16
10x10;*20
12x12;*24

etc. If you decide to change your base rate all you have to do is change the base price

[artreadyframes]

Hi Jim.....
Thank you again for your help and time.

I'm trying to eliminate having this extremely long stream of sizes showing because I never know what size the customer may need. If I don't have the size listed they need then they must call for a price which means they move on. A size could also be 8 1/4" x 11 1/8".

Example: http://scframes.com/products/anson-street

Thanks so much
Linda
ArtReadyFrames

[Jim]

Although it it a very old version I believe that ShopSite 8.3.1 has the Variable Price, Variable Name and Variable SKU options for products. You could use th Variable product features in combination with javascript, like the other site you pointed to uses, and send the size and price (and an optional sku (maybe style) to the cart. You would need the javascript to compute the size and have it put that value in the variable name or sku field. The calculated price would be put in the price field and the style could be in either the name or sku depending on which you put the size in.

There is some sample code on http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/product-variable.shtml You need to make sure that the input is all inside a form with the proper form field to add the item to the cart. You can see a sample of the fields necessary on http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/product5-options.shtml . You could leave out the section dealing with Order options since they probably wouldn't apply

Code: Select all

[-- IF PRODUCT.DisplayOrderingOptions --]
  [-- IF PRODUCT.OptionText --][-- PRODUCT.OptionText --]
[-- END_IF --]
  [-- Order_Option_Menu Line --]<br>
[-- END_IF --]

I'm not a javascript programmer but you could probably find someone either on the forum or on http://www.shopsite.com/csd.html who could do the coding for you. Not all of the designers do special coding but I believe Mike Masim of @stuff does and there are probalby others but you would need to contact them and see if they do that type of work and what it would cost. (if you are tech savvy you could possibly just look at the javascript code on the site you referred to and use that.)

[artreadyframes]

Jim.......thank you!!! I'm not tech savvy so the leads are also helpful.
Have a wonderful day.