Dynamic Pricing Frustrations

[afiumano]

It looks like the volume discount module is overriding the price.

[afiumano]

I am not sure I follow you? I only had to generate variants for the color - the color doesn't change the price. The attribute that adds to the price is a radio button and is NOT an inventory variant - it adds to the price only is "Yes" is selected. Hopefully that makes sense.

[Matt Zimmermann]

Generally, once you generate variants, only the variants will have ability to update the product price.

[afiumano]

I believe the issue I am having might be related to this thread. This is my product page: https://www.seedsoflife.com/p/WEDOK.html.

I have a swatch dropdown attribute that works fine. But I have another attribute that has an additional cost associated to it and the price of the attribute is NOT being added when you add the product to your basket. Is there a fix for this? I did generate inventory variants only for the swatch colors so that I could associate an additional product image with each.

[Brennan]

The ability to reprice the variant prices from the master product is currently in testing. Right now it is slated for Miva 10, however we may be able to get it into our summer release. Attached is a screenshot. It essentially allows you update the base price and the attributes and click a button and Miva will automatically update the prices of all variants.

That being said, if you're not using variants, and just are looking for the price to update as they change attributes, its possible to add some custom JavaScript to do this for you now.

[koala]

Any updates? We're so unbelievably frustrated by how price variants work currently.

I'm with d2d2d2, being in the mattress/furniture industry, there are so many variants that may never be ordered, but they need to be in the variants to provide complete pricing to our customers.

[d2d2d2]

Also running into problems with this. Will there be any updates in future versions? We are a higher-end furniture with so many custom covering options offered at many price variants. So many of our fabric/leather offerings might never be ordered and I hate the idea of having to maintain pricing at the variant level. There is just me doing website pricing maintenance. I have taken up adding javascript swatches in a tab below the main product info and then using drop-down menus. It would be great if I could use the swatch drop-down menu with pricing? What are Miva's future plans/goals for this feature?

[koala]

Brennan,

Did this make its way into 9.7? I can't seem to identify any changes or new options.

[lancermedia]

Normally in order to get the price to change automatically based on the attribute selected you must use inventory variants. This is the only method miva supports by default. There are some use cases where you don't want inventory variants for whatever reason.

Because of that in a few of the readythemes (suivant, optics, iron & wool, coustic and levels) we added custom javascript specific to those themes which will do this price change for you without inventory variants. This is why it is working for you on some products even though do you don't have variants.

I'll check and see why it does not work with swatches but it may need to be customized to support those.

Brennan, thanks for the info. Also - were you able to find out why dynamic pricing doesn't work if you have color swatches, yet it works with dropdowns?

-Kevin

[Brennan]

Yes that is how that new button will work.

You can updated variant prices now, but it has to be done individually at the variant level, either though the admin or via csv import.

[lancermedia]

The way it's working now means that if you are using Color Swatches, the price in the attribute itself is only used the first time inventory variants are generated. Anything after that, it doesn't care what's in the attribute - it's just for show in the dropdown. So is what you are saying Brennan is that in 9.0007 you will add a new button that would allow us to change the price of the master product and/or variant options and click a button to "Regenerate Variant Pricing" - meaning it would re-run the pricing calculations on all variants, without needed to delete them?

-Kevin

[koala]

Oh yeah....especially when you are dealing with millions of them....

I shudder to think about millions of variants. We have something like 10,000 and even that seems extreme to me!

[lesliekirk]

If they could ensure it doesn't re-generate any variants which have been deleted, that'd be critical too.

Oh yeah....especially when you are dealing with millions of them....

[koala]

Thank you Brennan, that would be incredible! If they could ensure it doesn't re-generate any variants which have been deleted, that'd be critical too.

[Brennan]

I met with our development team today. We are going to be adding this feature into 9.0007.