Dynamic Pricing Frustrations

[Rick Wilson]

I'll ask Brennan to chime in.

[koala]

This is why I'm confused, though. If I have several drop down lists on a page, the dynamic price updates just fine. It's only specifically when a swatch drop down is in the mix, that this no longer works.

[Rick Wilson]

By definition to have a dynamic price you should use Variants even if you're not tracking inventory with them (that way there's specific selection tied to a specific price).

[koala]

I've been trying to work with Miva Support on this, but I haven't gotten anywhere close to a workable solution.

In a nut shell, dynamic product pricing will not work when a swatch drop down attribute is assigned to the product.

The only way to actually get it to "work" is to generate inventory variants. I don't want to do this - it can create literally hundreds of variants for one product.

Here is a good example: http://dev.tmasc.ca/team-7-dining-ch...ing-chair.html

This chair comes in 7 types of wood and 20 leathers. It's made to order, so tracking inventory isn't needed. Try selecting a wood type which has an upcharge and you'll see the "price as selected" js doesn't dynamically update. It will only do so if I generate variants.

I'd really like to be able to use the built-in swatch drop down without resorting to generating variants, but I don't know how to accomplish this!