Charge your customers by the variable size of the item
they are ordering. This MIVA Merchant module is used to calculate
prices on items which are priced, e.g. by the square foot, inch, or other units of measure.
This is particularly useful when the store owner does not
want to have a pull down select list of infinite values.
The module also eliminates the common hack that stores
have used which involved using the number of the items
added to the basket to adjust charges. This module
allows the customer to specify two dimensions (e.g.
length and width) as item attributes on the product
screen (PROD) and still be able to order more than one of
that item. Not for upsell products. For example,
ordering four 8" X 10" picture frames involves entering
8 in the length attribute and 10 in the width attribute
and entering 4 in the add to basket quantity input.
The store owner determines the storewide number of
free units (if any), e.g. square inches, and the lowest
and the highest values
that can be used in the measurement. The store owner
can also use price groups to vary the dimension pricing for
applicable customers. The attributes type is usually text
but could be select list pull down. It
cannot be a template. The attribute prompts can read
whatever the store owner desires to direct the customer
to enter the numeric measurement. If you are using our
Attribute Prompt vs Code module, that prompt will also
display on the basket, invoice and emails instead of the
attribute code. The store owner's settings are
configured in admin.
The customer enters the dimensions to form the combined
units (e.g. square inches) and the module calculates the
price based on the calculated units times the price of
the first dimension attribute.
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.
