Discount your product base prices based on the number
of items ordered of identical products, eg 1-3 =
standard price, 4-6 = lower, etc. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.x. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Features:
- Discount product prices based on quantity ordered
- Easy from - to price breaks in a single input
- Unlimited price break ranges
- Fixed price or percentage off regular price
- Optional automatic start and stop dates for volume pricing
- Use our time zone offset to adjust the time that the date changes
- Each product can have different price breaks and dates
- Can use price groups with percentage discounts
- Optionally apply price group discount "on top of" volume price breaks
- Can exclude price groups from volume pricing
- Can exclude all except specific price groups
- Hide or display table which depicts price breaks
- Include a quantity input in the table on category pages
- Volume price can be applied on identical products or can amalgamate
- Can amalgamate discounts of different attributes in the same product
- Optional "as low as" to replace regular price
- Optional strike thru of regular price followed by volume price
- Can put all or some of your store products on sale within seconds
- Can remove all volume pricing in the store within seconds
- Flat file import for quick update
- Optional wild card can apply same volume pricing to all products
- Export volume pricing settings to flat file
- Use render tokens to place "as low as" and table on applicable screens
- Licensed by domain, unlimited stores under one MIVA Merchant mall pay no additional license fee
Feature Details: This module's admin interface provides an easy to enter "from - to cost" format. You can literally have as many ranges as you want to type in. See the image below for example syntax. You can either use actual
values to replace the base price or percent of price to
be subtracted from the product base price. These price
differentials are added directly in the admin interface
under the product edit screen. You only apply these
price differentials in the products that you want to use
them.
This module applies the price in your low,
high, cost groupings. If you do not include a grouping at the single
item level, it will use the method for pricing in your store. It only
activates if you include a low, high, cost grouping.
For example:
6|10|12%
11|20|14%
21|999|16%
The module only uses price groups when using the percent
off discount calculation. If you enter fixed prices for the
quantity ranges, then price groups are ignored. Keep in mind
that the percent discounts could be over and above the discount
already given if you are using price groups.
You can opt to not give the price group
an additional discount above the volume pricing. You can
even make all or some price groups not eligible for volume
pricing and hide the table from them completely. Conversely,
you can exclude everybody from volume pricing except
specific price group members. Customers must be logged in
to identify the price group they are in before the volume
pricing module can qualify or disqualify them from volume
pricing if you are using the price group restrictions.
The percentage discounting method subtracts the
percent discount from the base price. Base price does
not include attribute prices. To apply the percentage,
simply include the percent symbol (%) in the line. If
you are using cost method for your store (other than
price groups), you will not be able to use the percentage
discounting method. Instead, use the actual value method.
If you are using another third party module which overrides prices in
the basket and recomputes them using the price in the product record, you
may not be able to use this module. Other third party modules may not
recognize that it needs to apply the calculations in this module.
The module recognizes identical products. Hence different
product codes will change the product enough that the discount
won't apply. For example 3 red shirts and 6 blue shirts will
not give the discount of 9 shirts. Rather, they'll get the discount
rate of 3 for one of the line items and 6 for the other.
You can amalgamate quantities so in the example above, as
long as the product code is the same and the color variation is done with attributes, all 9 items would get the
volume discount for 9 items. You have the option for each
product code to amalgamate quantities or treat varied attributes
as different products.
You can optionally include a
table on the product (PROD) and
category (CTGY) screens displaying the rates as generated
from the products' volume discount record. You can optionally
have a quantity input in that table display on the category screen. These options are
configured through admin.
If you want to have a sale on one or more
items. Simply set the volume to 1 or more with a specific
discount percentage and you have a sale with as low as display. You
can use the token %product_price_f% to further highlight that with
a strike thru. To make this feature even more useful, you
can enter a starting and ending date for the sale so that it
will start and end automatically.
For ease of entry, a
flat file import module is included. You can put all product
codes in the flat file or use an asterisk (*) and one line
of "rules" to apply the volume price to all products in the
store. Create a storewide sale, e.g. 10% off in seconds with
a specific start and stop date. Then just as quickly remove
all settings at your leisure after the sale. There is also
a volume price export so you can
quickly build your flat file, then edit or add to it. This
is useful when you want to have a storewide sale on all products but
retain volume prices on your regularly discounted items. Export the volume prices. Import your sale settings. Import
your volume discounts on the few you want to maintain at
pre-sale prices.
The module currently fully supports the mivasql configuration of MIVA Merchant 5. It also supports MySQL as long as load balancing has the data stored on the single MySQL server and
permissions are set correctly on the data
directories. This would be the case in most of the server setups. If you are using Merchant 5.x and your host is web.com, you will not be able to use this module due to the way they configure their servers. There are no known issues with
other hosts.
