AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hi gang, I am working on updating our store from 5.5 to 7 (about time!) and have a snag. In our current store we did a lot of "creative programming" to get the desired result. I'd like to avoid as much of that as possible with AC7.

In our store we sell tickets to tours. A given tour can have 3-4 types, adult, child, senior, other/mil. We want to implement these as variants because it seems to be the most clean path to take. The snag is that I see no way to put a MSRP for each of the variants so we can show we are well priced and the customer will save with us. We'd like to have the product be "XYZ Trolley" and have variant Adult cost $26 with MSRP of $28.00 etc. for each type of ticket. As it stands the only MSRP-type value I see is for the product itself which won't help with differently MSRPd variants.

Am I looking at custom coding it or am I simply overlooking a switch somewhere I can turn on? I'm not opposed to either but the faster we get online the faster my headaches (maintaining an ancient store) go away.

Thanks!
Jim Sewell - Key West, Fl

deverill wrote:Am I looking at custom coding it or am I simply overlooking a switch somewhere I can turn on? I'm not opposed to either but the faster we get online the faster my headaches (maintaining an ancient store) go away.

Jim, it's possible to do what you want but it will require some customization. You can create product custom fields that are stored with each product record.

What you would do is create multiple product custom fields, each with a field name of the variant SKU and a field value of the variant MSRP.

Then you'd have to modify the productprice user control such that it uses the custom field MSRP if the displayed product is a variant.

I was looking for the right direction and you nudged me back onto it. I was close but not exactly there yet.

Thanks for the help Joe.