Quantity & Minimum Orders

[Karl Morrison]

Hello All,
I'm looking to sell small ribbons (Custom Printed) I wish to sell for 1.35 ea. at a minimum of 50 pieces, however at 51 or more Discount them to 1.25 ea. Is Miva 5 able to do this? If not can someone point me towards the appropriate module that can handle this task.
Thank you

KM

[DesignExtend-MSI]

The discounting isn't a problem. The Volume Pricing module will handle that:

http://www.designextend.com/page/miva/PROD/volumepr

Requiring a minimum on each can be a bit tricky, because there will always be ways to get around it without a module that forces specific minimums (which I don't believe exists). However, some will set even higher price levels to make the minimum purchase so apparent.

Some remove the product quantity button and use attributes to set quantities, while others just use the module above and set the first level at 50 to 50, to display the base price on a minimum. Most customers will follow suit. The ones who don't - you'd have to contact them.

[Karl Morrison]

Some remove the product quantity button and use attributes to set quantities.

Is this something that is very dificult to do? I have only 10 Items that need this done. I'd appreciate some direction (Either a snippet of code) or documentation elswhere to achieve this.
Thanks

Karl

[Karl Morrison]

Sorry to be a Pain in the Butt....
What I'm specifically asking is:
Is there a way to have an items quantity default to say 50 Pieces? If so where would I edit this (What section) or again is this something ONLY a module can accomplish?

[ILoveHostasaurus]

To make it default to 50, that can be done, but it won't prevent the person from changing it and it won't necessarily be easy. What you'd need to do is edit the PROD page template to have conditionals so the following occurs just for the special products:

If the product is XYZ, display:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Quantity" VALUE=50 SIZE=4>

else, display the default:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Quantity" VALUE=1 SIZE=4>

That would be a pain to manage.

What I'd probably recommend is going with the volume pricing module Pamela suggested and then possibly selling your items in 50 piece batches. So, at quantity 1, the person pays normal price which is $67.50, so that will be your product price. Then at quantity 2, i.e. 100 pieces, the volume pricing module kicks in and makes things $62.50/each, effectively $1.25/each. If your customers would not like being forced to buy in that large a quantity, you could always drop the included number of ribbons down to 10 packs and use the volume pricing module to offer no discounts for quantities 1 through 5, i.e. 10 through 50 pieces, then it starts offering the progressive discounts for quantities of 6 through 10, etc.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

If I'm understanding your request correctly....

You could edit your PROD page template, Product Display Layout.

You'll need to be in Advanced Mode.

You can edit the layout to include a quantity box, and pre-populate it with 50.

However, this would apply to every product.

[wcw]

Volume Pricing at
http://www.emporiumplus.com/go/wcw/PROD/1AAM5/1AA00069
can set the discount for bulk.

Minimum and Maximum Quantity at
http://www.emporiumplus.com/go/wcw/PROD/1AAM5/1AA00069
can force the quantity. Each product can have a minimum set. It controls it when adding to the basket and even when the customer changes the quantity in the basket and updates.

[Karl Morrison]

Thankyou, Both modules were purchased and with a little focus, I believe they are working properly. The error messages was / is a bit confusing, but for the most part... Its running.

KM