Price Range function

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Hello forum,

I'm new to Hikashop and I'm busy setting up an online shop. Got most things sorted so far, but not getting my head around price ranges for certain items.

We sell meat. So on smaller cuts I have characteristics, then added as variants on these cuts to enable the buyer to choose 0.5kg, 0.75kg, 1kg, etc. packs. This works very well. On the other hand I have bigger cuts, like whole ribs (in the picture) that is sold as individual units, but priced per kg. The trick is that I need to list a price range for this item. Let's say one rib can weigh anything between 0.8 and 1.2kg, and that it is priced at $10 / kg, how do I display that the item will cost between $8 (minimum) and $12 (maximum.)

Is this best done with characteristics and variants? Although I don't want the buyer to choose minimum or maximum, whatever we end up packing for them is what they will pay for.

Thanks!

The price displayed needs to look like this: Price range $8 - $12. When payment is done I will charge the average ($10) and when delivery is made payment adjustments will be made.

Maybe I should just put in the price range into the custom field. But am I correct that I have to upgrade from Essential to Business to have this functionality??

Hello,

The price displayed needs to look like this: Price range $8 - $12.

The solution will probably be to directly use product custom fields and edit the code of the "Listing_div" file of the "Product" view of your front-end template via "Hikashop->Display->Views".

There is actually no option to automatically change/adjust the order amount after your customer have already paid for his order. So some custom development will be required.