Different product prices in Miva 5?

[MJP]

Hi all, my first time here. I am new to Miva 5 so if any of my questions sound pathetic, I appologize in advance. Anyway, I am looking to set up a store in Miva 5 that allows me to sell products to both customers and buisinesses. The pricing would be different, which confuses me more than anything. If anyone has any ideas on how to do it, Please let me know.
Thanks for your time,
Mike Pratz
privatepratz@optonline.net

[dotCOM_host]

You may be out of luck, at least for now. In v4 there was a 3rd party module that allowed you to specify different prices for different groups of customers (retail, wholesale, etc). That module does not appear to be available for v5, however. In v5 your best (and only?) option is to use Price Groups, but that's more of giving the same percentage type discount across the board, vs specifying unique prices on a per-product basis.

As an alternative, you could run a separate store (even on the same domain) with separate prices just for wholesalers. An "Additional Store License" is pretty inexpensive and would allow you to have a completely separate store just for wholesalers, with separate pricing, and even separate look and feel for that store, payment and shipping options just for wholesalers, etc. Might be worth looking into... as it can solve more than just one problem all at the same time.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

I *think* southland has a module that does this...the admin interface looks a bit "simplistic" but if it does what it says it does, it should work...forgot the name of it by search miva central for 'wholesale'

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

You can achieve this without a module with built in functionality - if the pricing is a fixed discount or percentage difference.

This is the exact purpose of the Price Group feature already built into MIVA Merchant.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Yes, the big difference is establishing a SET price for a product based on Price Group rather than a overal percentage or fixed discount. The later does not require a module, the formare does.