Different Prices for Similar Item

I thought I was going down the right road on this issue but now I'm not so sure. On my site I'm still developing, I have jewelry chains that come in various lengths. My understanding was to create a characteristic for each length with the appropriate price. However, whichever length is added to the cart, the cart is selecting the default price of that item.

On this page at silverconnection.cloudaccess.net/index.p...s/category/15-chains select any chain, then in the characteristic drop down menu, my (incorrect) understanding is that whichever length/price was selected would tell the cart what price to charge. Apparently this is not the case.

How would I instruct the cart to select the correct price for the correct chain length in this instance?

Thanks.

Nevermind, found the answer. I had not taken the additional step yet of putting the prices in the individual item characteristics in the manage variants area. All's good.

However this brings up another question I noticed when I was creating this page of items. When creating the individual product, a price is required to display with the item. On this page at silverconnection.cloudaccess.net/index.p...s/category/15-chains I have the default price of a particular chain length assigned to the item. However this is a little misleading if the customer wants a different length than the initial price suggests. Example, the first chain on that page is 'Chain BAR' with a displayed price of $30.25. If the customer selects the item then chooses the length of 24", the default assigned price obviously is not the same. Any workarounds for this?

Hi,

For the default price displayed, you can change the default variant displayed as main product, so the price displayed can be what you want.
Then you can override the translation PRICE_BEGINNING="" to set something like PRICE_BEGINNING="From ".

Hmm, could you bring that explanation down a few notches to my level of understanding? How could I change the default variant and where would I change the PRICE_BEGINNING at? I'm looking in the Prices table and am not familiar where I could change that.

Hi,

To change the default variant displayed, in the product edition page, under the part "characteristics" change the default values.

Then, to change the translation, do in HikaShop > Configuration > Languages, and edit you language file. In the override section, add the code previously given.

Understand now. If I add PRICE_BEGINNING="From " into the override area, it didn't have any affect. But if I added From to the PRICE_BEGINNING="" translation in the top part, then it works however this causes a wholesale change on every item of the site, which I don't want to do. Just want it displayed on the Chains category. I like the idea though if it can be contained only to the chains.

Hi,

Try to replace the line:

echo JText::_('PRICE_BEGINNING');

		$prodClass = hikashop_get('class.product');
		$cid = hikashop_getCID();
		if($cid != 0)
			$categories = $prodClass->getCategories(hikashop_getCID());
		else{
			if(isset($this->row->product_parent_id) && $this->row->product_parent_id == '0' && !isset($this->row->cart_id))
				$categories = $prodClass->getCategories($this->row->product_id);
		}
		if(isset($categories) && $categories != null){
			$j = 0;
			foreach($categories as $category){
				if($category == '2' && $j == 0){
					echo JText::_('PRICE_BEGINNING');
					$j++;
				}
			}
		}

I'm afraid it didn't display anything. I'd like to continue if we could but will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Thanks so much Xavier for the help so far.

Hi,

Are you sure that you edited the file in the good view, and replace '2' by the id of the good category ?

Not sure what you mean by editing the file in the good view but if I go to Hikashop>Display>Views, then filter for listing_price, I open (view)product / (file) listing_price. If I read your instruction correctly, I delete the line of echo JText::_('PRICE_BEGINNING'); and insert the new code and save. If I do this, even if I change the line of PRICE_BEGINNING="" in the Configuration>Languages file to PRICE_BEGINNING="From " then nothing displays next to the default item price.

If I leave echo JText::_('PRICE_BEGINNING'); in the listing_price file and insert the new code and save, nothing displays next to the default item price as well. I am changing the Category from 2 to 15 (actual category ID) in both instances.

So in both instances of inserting that code or not, the only way the word From appears next to the item price is by changing PRICE_BEGINNING="" to PRICE_BEGINNING="From " in the Configuration>Languages file but again that makes the word From appear next to the item price site wide.

Am I following correctly?

Thanks. Yes I am editing the listing_price file for Front End, dj-jewellery, product. And replacing the category ID with 15. Thanks for all the help.

You guys are the best. Works great. Thanks very much.