Sell products by decimal weight

[bilalsaad]

Hello,

I have Joomla! 2.5.9 Stable & VM 2.0.18a

I have about 150 sweets products.

I want to sell them by weight not by integer quantity. i.e: I want to sell 0.5kg 1kg 1.5kg ...

How can I do that? (I don't want to set too many variants for each product, but just to enable a decimal quantity or weight)

[Studio 42]

It's not possible in virtuemart 2.0.1, perhaps in vm 3.0.x, but the last time i tried to use decimal steps, this was converted to integers when adding product in cart.
The curriousity is that  you can save decimal qunatity step on product edit since many time.

Try the vm 3.0.8, perhaps you have luck.

[bilalsaad]

Thank you for your reply.

But I want any certain solution to use 05.kg 1kg 1.5kg ...

Are your certain that vm 3.0.8 support this!!!

[Studio 42]

Hi,
I cannot certify this work in vm 3.0.8. You have to check your self.

If you need a plugin to add the funtionality, please PM or eMail me for a custom work.

Patrick

[Milbo]

Of course there is something there since years

http://extensions.virtuemart.net/products/custom-size-detail

It also adjust the weight of your product for the correct shipment.

[bilalsaad]

Thank you Mr. Milbo, but the plugin you mention (CUSTOM SIZE) is not what we want at all.

It is a customizes size not weight. Also, it need to add customization to each product. 

We need selling products based on decimal weight not size (0.5kg , 1 kg, 1.5kg ...).

Also, we don't want to add customization for every product since all the customization in all products are the same which is the weight.

(I mean, the customer have only to choose a decimal weight for the product instead of integer quantity).

You may check this link that reflects what exactly we need:

http://www.hallab.com.lb/en/products/details/0/221/Mixed%20Baklawa%20Pistachios

If any solution exist in virtuemart please let me know.

[Milbo]

It also adjust the weight of your product for the correct shipment.

Use as unit kg and it is exactly what you want. => http://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/amerikanisches-englisch/size

weight is a "size".

[bilalsaad]

Excuse me again,

But I checked the demo of the plugin, triple times, but I couldn't find any similar between it and what we want.

Did you checked the link I send?
http://www.hallab.com.lb/en/products/details/0/221/Mixed%20Baklawa%20Pistachios

We don't want to customize each product also. Please recheck the link I send again.

Do you have demo link for that plugin other than this?
http://istraxx.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=76&virtuemart_category_id=12&Itemid=435

[Milbo]

The demo had 20 different products to show all the possibilites. You dont need any variant and you can let enter your customer the size or provide a dropdown with fixed values.

Btw, the solution in the link is not nice. When I want to buy 10 kg, i have to click 19 times !

[bilalsaad]

You dont need any variant and you can let enter your customer the size or provide a dropdown with fixed values.

My last question: Without introducing any variant to products, can the customer enter a decimal number for size (0.3 or 0.5 for example)?

If yes, then done, I will buy the plugin and use the size as weight.

[jenkinhill]

Apart from the plugin you could use custom fields, maybe with this plugin: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=127362.0

eg see this page which was an example for a client:  http://www.keswick.biz/VM3062J34/index.php/vm/tcat/mytestproduct-detail

[Studio 42]

The problem with a plugin is that in the cart and product the quantity is 1 and not the size or length you enter.
Of course you can make an overide for the product view to hide quantity. But not in cart

The day virtuemart accept quantity as decimal, this solve the problem for many customer, All is ready for this, min/max and steps, you can set price per weight ...

[Milbo]

My last question: Without introducing any variant to products, can the customer enter a decimal number for size (0.3 or 0.5 for example)?

If yes, then done, I will buy the plugin and use the size as weight.

Yes, you can also define the steps and your customers could also use fractions, for example 1/2. if you define steps of  0.25kg and your customer enters 0.2 it will set to 0.25. He could also enter 1/5 and would get as result 1/4 (because we defined the steps as 0.25).

And Patrick no you are wrong. Why you talk about a plugin, which you do not know? and Patrick as always, really, ranting without understanding the real problem behind it. A quantity has no unit, the unit of the quantity is the product. It makes a difference if you want to buy 500 pieces a 0,5kg of pistacies, because you sell them yourself again. Or if you want ot buy 250kg of pistacies.

and btw Patrick, we had the discussion often and it got answered very often. It would be nice if you just accept it.

[Milbo]

Jenkinhill, your solution dont need any extra plugin and can be done easily directly with vm.

But only the customsize plugin changes also directly the weight for you.

[Studio 42]

Hi Max,
I never discussed this with you, I do not understand what you're talking about ?
But some vm user want the decimals as quantity to clarify order and card.(see attachment)