Wholesale check box

[simplyzibest]

hi all,

i've been trying to figure out what the wholesale textbox and checkbox is on the products admin page is. i haven't seen it displayed anywhere and i can't seem to see it is used in any calculations.

can someone shed some light about this field?

thanks,
elon

[michael_s]

First, you posted in the wrong forum, This is an MS2-MAX feature and belongs in the MS2-MAX forum. I am moving the topic there.

Next, this is the picing per customer mod. Read the instructions on the contributions dir. Open the zip file and read the readme. There are basic instructions on how to use this mod there.

Basically if you check the checkbox, it will place that product as egligible for a wholesale price. Then you need to setup a customer to be in that group. Then when that customer logs in they get the wholesale price. Read the instructions that come with the mod, and you should be able to figure it out.

[simplyzibest]

thanks msasek!

and sorry about posting to the wrong forum .

-elon

[Lynoure]

By default the checkbox is checked and even when I uncheck it, it's checked again when I edit the product again. Is there a way to make it stick?

[Chunks]

The info on this is a little hard to follow but..... i try and explain

Under Customer>customers>select your customer>edit

Your type in at the bottom what group the belong to... eg... Wholesale, your have to define this for each customer... the default is retail.

Now when you select a product in

Catalog>Catalog/Products>SELECT YOUR PRODUCT>edit

Your will see a check box at the bottom to eneter in a special price.. eg a Wholesale price. Now IF a customer belongs to this Wholesale group then they will see this special price BECAUSE they belong to this group.... if they belong to the default group RETAIL then they will see the standard price...

Hope this helps
Some time you just gotta experiment a little... I didn't even know my cart had this feature till i saw you asking how to use it!!! hahahaha

Regards Chunks

[miahac]

Originally Posted by msasek

Next, this is the picing per customer mod. Read the instructions on the contributions dir. Open the zip file and read the readme. There are basic instructions on how to use this mod there.

Contributions directory? Where is that? What readme? Where do I create these groups? It would be nice if your quick responses had links. I have seen at least 3 others with the same question and if there were links I would have not posted this. I CANNOT FIND what you are talking about. PLUS, your forum search engine does not have "a phrase option" so I am wasting tons of cpu cycles refining my search. Argh and while I am whining, my box of wine is almost empty (jk... its full) I just wish your responses would have links.

[miahac]

OK for those who might want links or a little more explination, here it is. The contributions is at http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,716 -- There you can download a zip file and open it and read the following:

To create a new customer group, go to the customer edit page and change their group name. There will be a list of the current customer groups at the bottom. The default group is Retail and is shown in the list. This was my first attempt at coding with php and MySQL so there might have been a better way to do some of the things I did, like use functions.

To add a price for a customer group, go to edit the product, at the bottom there will be a list of the current customer groups. Make sure the check box is checked and type in the price, that's it. If you want to remove the price, just uncheck the check box and it will remove it.

This module is based on David Garcia Watkins' alternative attribute handling mod, Thanks for the start David. Don't forget to backup.


So the main point is that there is no spot to create groups you just change a customer to the new group and it is automaticaly created. Then the boxes for the groups will show in the products. If you are stuck on "wholesale" it is because you have no customer with "Retail" as their group.