One product with linked user licenses

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12 years 1 month ago #70080

Hi,

We've just got the standard license, and also hoped there was a solution to the following problem using it. However, I would like to discuss solutions both with the basic version of HikaShop, and if there are better / alternative options that would require an upgrade.

The problem is:

- We have basic products, which have a one-off fee (like a set-up charge, say at £100).
- The product is mainly virtual, although some paperwork is also sent most of the features of the product are driven through a custom component we are developing.
- Each product has individual user license. Currently they have varying fixed charges of between £7.50 and &20, so you may buy Product A, and then buy 100 licenses for users to access a feature of Product A.
- It's not necessary for licenses to be bought after purchasing a product (because they won't be able to access the features of the license until it's related product has also been bought).

So, a product and licenses are linked: many products can be bought by a customer, and many licenses can be bought against a product.

I just want to know what the simplest solution would be to set something like this up with HikaShop under the basic version (I was thinking that Variants could be used, although couldn't work out how the pricing works out in this scenario), and what would be the ideal solution?

Thanks in advance,

Alex

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12 years 1 month ago #70276

Hi,

It basically depends on how you want to display your products and how you handle quantities.

A simple solution I can see is to have a characteristic called "type" with the values "one off fee" and "user licences".
Then, add that characteristic to your products and then via the "manage variants" button, you will be able to set the prices for each variant. For the one off variant, you can set a price of £100 and for the user licences variant, you can set one price of £20 or several prices based on the quantity ordered if the unit price is supposed to change based on the quantity ordered.

That is possible in all versions of HikaShop.

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12 years 1 month ago #70484

Thanks, that's along the lines of the simplest solution that I was considering, but I had missed that you could also assign multiple prices to a variant. I was thinking that a variant was just a label for an aspect of a product (as "Characteristic" implies), but it's really more of an alias/derivative of that product which is much more useful.

I have found it a little confusing though if you have a price for the main (root) product, and prices for the variants (child product), and that it shows the main price in the product listings, but when you go to the detail view it's showing the variants and their prices instead.

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12 years 4 weeks ago #70760

Yes. But if you don't enter any price in the main product, the prices of the variants will be used automatically on the listing. If you do, the system assumes that you want to override the display of the price on the listing with the main product price.
But it's logical that you see the price of variants on the product page since you're actually buying the variant, not the main product.
On the other end, if you only enter a price in the main product and not in variants, the main product price will be used for the variants automatically.

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