Product Options/Characteristics Pricing

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.3

Context: My client has a website sells a range of physical and consumable products - the consumable products are only available after purchasing the physical ones (this is setup by using user levels and changing the user group when purchasing one of the select initial products) and that all works fine.

What the client would like to do is have some of the consumable products as optional extras when purchasing a physical product.

Problem: Adding one of these consumable products as an option only displays a dropdown with a yes/no option and not an option for quantity - but does add an extra predefined cost.

Adding a characteristic field to select a quantity requires that every price of every combination of options is entered manually and this could run into the hundreds of combinations.

Question: What is the best way to configure for this scenario?

Can a product added as an option of another be setup to select a quantity, and result in an additional cost be calculated for the total; or

Can a characteristic variant be set to simply add a set dollar value to the existing price (rather than the percentage that seems to be available)?

Thanks.

Hi,

And what about using only option, so yes/no dropdown and disable the option "Group options with product" in Configuration > Main > Cart, this way the customer can change the quantity of the consumable in the cart and still have quantity of 1 for the physical product.

I guess technically speaking that is a workaround to the problem. It is however a pretty poor user experience to have to select quantities for these items this way.

Is there a more reasonable solution to the problem?

Is there a way to have an additional dollar value for a variant rather than an overall price for the combination?

I have an interesting derivative of the above scenario, which may or may not be handled by the 'options' scenario....??

Our product is a license - the license is applicable to one machine which the buyer may own. As the buyer may want licenses for more than one machine, we have a discount structure for additional licenses. So if the first license is £100, a further 1-5 licenses are £50 each, or 6 or more additional licenses are £30 each.

While the dropdown option might be able to show the prices for 1-5 additional licenses, or 6 or more additional licenses....it doesn't actually allow the buyer to enter the number of additional licenses they need.

Is Hikashop able to calculate a total price based on various hidden (so to speak) values?

Hi Jerome, thanks for reply.

Sorry, didn't understand the relevance of the link...?

Also, which or what custom plugins should I be looking at and where do I get them? (sorry, I'm not a code-savvy developer).

Thanks
Hugh

Hi,

Right, well I guess I don't understand anything in the documentation page - I'm not a coder.

I suppose my request is really just a function of the quantity field - if a user just chooses '1' then the price is £100. If a user chooses (or enters) '4' then the price is calculated from 1 x 100 + 3 x 50 = 250. It's a discount system with different discounts based on quantity, but always including 1x £100 product to start with - i.e. the first product of the quantity will always cost £100 regardless; the rest are discounted additions. The price structure can be explained in the product description.

Thx.

I might just have found what I want in the answer by damendieta in this thread:
www.hikashop.com/forum/4-how-to/52634-qu...ricing-discount.html

I will have a play with it and see if it works.

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Well, that might work, actually.

Unfortunately, Hikashop automatically writes a new displayed price for the product based on the 'best' price/qty -