AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

It would be nice to have an option to display something like "Per foot" or whatever behind the price of an item

Hello,

Feature enhancement added.

http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6177

It would be nice if AbleCommerce supported Units of Measure as found in other ecommerce packages. A unit of measure is a product or option attribute that tells you what unit you use to sell the product or option in. If you sell bananas, for instance, you can sell as single or in a bunch. You can also sell it by bushels or pallets.

Essentially, this adds another field to the product and option tables. I also want to add an admin screen for changing these values. I am assuming you have to get deep into the database code, but there may be a non-invasive way to do the same thing. What's the best way of approaching this issue?

I am not seeing where this was implemented.

Does anyone know how to get to the units field?

It has not been implemented yet.

how have people implemented this before?

I was planning on creating a product template field where we can type in whatever we wanted for a unit, but it doesn't work for Products with Varients.

Any ideas?

I've researched it a couple of times for client projects.

There really isn't an effective way to do UOM (Units of Measure) in AC7 currently. As you've already tried, the only way to get close to it is with a merchant field or product custom field. Even then, the mathematics involved for supporting UOM conversion would be still need to be engineered.

It would be a great asset to the system to have UOM support added to the data classes for both products and variants.