Best way to handle selling products in 50/250/500 pcs.?

[Henrik Holm Nielsen]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone would be kind enough, to give me a few pointers as to how I best achive the following, as I do not seem to be able to find any "Best practise" of doing this.

In the shop we are building, we only have a few products. But each product will not be sold as a single product, but as batches of 50, 250 and 500 items together.
What we would like to achive, is to have each product registered once in the shop, but with 3 different prices and no. of items, in a dropdown or list. The customers picks one of the linies showing the number of items he would like, and then the correct price is showing.

It's NOT a calculation of the price we are aiming for, but 3 fixed prices for 3 different variants containing 50, 250 or 500 pcs. of the product.

But we can't seem to find out if we should use custom fiields and/or cart variant to achieve this? Or something completely different like product childs?

Any pointers is very much appreciated!

Cheers,
Henrik Holm Nielsen

Joomla: 2.5.9
Virtuemart 2.0.20b

Edit: Forgot to mention, that site is multilanguage with 6 languages, if this will have any importance chosing solution?

[John2400]

http://extensions.virtuemart.net/products/quantity-related-price-calculation-detail

[Henrik Holm Nielsen]

Hi John,

Thanx for your prompt reply!

Don't mind buying the plugin you refer to, but I thought what we wanted, was pretty simple and allready within the functionality of virtuemart?
Am I wrong in this assumption?

[Henrik Holm Nielsen]

Hi John,

Well - something like you have done here, exept with this setup it seems the prices mentioned in the dropdowns is added to the products basebase - am I correct?
What I was hoping for, was something like not having a baseprice set, and the 3 diffent total prices in the drowdown. Does this make sense?

As I see it - and I might be wrong - what you have setup, is more used in scenarios where the product costs $x and if you want fx. a larger version, you pay an addon of $y..

[jenkinhill]

I set something like this up last year. There were 80 products, each sold in package sizes of 10, 100, 250 and 500. I made each of the products into a category, and within each category were the four box sizes and individual products. All that needed to make it work was to set up some language overrides.

[Henrik Holm Nielsen]

Great suggestion Kelvyn!!
Thanx for this idea - will give it a shot!

Cheers