Handling single products and products by the case

I have a client that has a product he sells individually and by the case. The way he would like teh shop to handle it is as follows:

He would like to NOT display the quantity box with these products but instead display the following choices:

Prioce for the product $10.00 ea.

Then he wants a drop down with the following:

2 Items $20.00
3 Items $30.00
4 Items $40.00
5 Items $50.00
6 Items $60.00
12 Items $100.00

Essentially, he does not want his customer to choose more than 6 products and force them to buy a case if they want more than 6 giving a quantity discount.

I saw several problems with this but before I try to guide him to an alternate way to display and sell the products I wanted to ask here.

One of the issues I see is that of shipping weight. He uses the UPS plugin and while the "Characteristics" (I think that's what they are called in Hika Shop) take into account the price, I don't think they take into account weight. Is there a way to change not only the price but the weight as well?

Second, I was unable to find a way to build my own Characteristic. I am still researching that, but if anyone can point me to how I would create them, it would be nice.

Essentially the problem here is that he sells items that can ship individually or by the case. He wants to try to limit the choices given to the customer but also wants to make sure that discounts are applied when a customer purchases a certain quantity.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Hi,

What you can do is create an option product, add characteristics to this option product.
The characteristics will be '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '12', then manage the variants in the option product to set a price for each variants.

And add the option product to the main product, by this way the customer can choose the packaging and can buy more than one package at a time.
Example 2 packages of 5.

Another way to restrict that, is to override the quantity input field to display a dropdown with the desired values.
www.hikashop.com/fr/support/documentatio...tation.html#override "For the quantity input"

Thank you for your kind replay.

Yesterday I actually managed to add my own characteristics to a test product. I am still a bit confused by the best workflow to add these characteristics and I believe I found a couple of bugs in the process but that may be due to the way I did not approach making these characteristics properly.

Is there a tutorial on how to properly create characteristics and assigning them to a product (or more)?

I have been trying to do it intuitively, and while I feel I am getting close I really would like to know that I am doing things correctly. The manual seem a bit sparse on procedures. It explains what things are, but I didn't see many step by step instructions, which is the method I prefer to learn a new program.

Anyway, so far I am impressed by Hikashop. I just need to figure out a few more things and I'll be on my way. I have 5 clients in the wings waiting for me to learn Hika and start their site. All of them will purchase it too. I made it a condition of using my services.

Hi,

Here is some documentation about the "characteristics": www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...html#characteristics
And here about the "options": www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ct-form.html#options

We now that we have to improve the documentation

Wow, suddenly I have the French interface in the forum.

Anyway, the documentation is OK, I think it needs to be hyperlinked a bit more and probably some of the screenshots will need to be taken again because what I am seeing in Joomla 3.0 is slightly different.

I actually used to do a very popular podcast about Joomla. I haven't done it in a couple of years mostly because Joomla has been chancing so quickly that I was afraid that it would become obsolete too quickly.

But I think doing a podcast about Joomla and Hikashop would be great and would be very useful to the community. The way I did the podcast was to take a topic from start to finish and show how it was done. So for instance, one topic could be "Set taxes for a US state in Hika Shop" (Naturally, European viewers would be left out, but even though I was born in Italy, I am not familiar with European taxation).

Another could be how to setup Variants and so on. One important thing I used to do when making the video was to add in the description a simple Bullet list of steps as well, so that one didn't have to watch the video every time they wanted to refresh their memory.

Anyway, first I need to learn it myself so thank you for the links, I'll be reading them next.

Cheers