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Old 06-27-2011, 10:43 AM
 
welly welly is offline
 

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Default Re: quantity pricing

Julie,

It may well be possible to hide the quantity selector for just one category, although I personally don't know how you would do it. The complication is that it seems to be linked to the functionality of the buy button and the stock level.

Provided the relevant variables are still set, and you're only changing the appearance, I can't see why it wouldn't work. You may need to consider that when you add an item to the basket, the quantity selector is refreshed (and will change to an out of stock message if the item added is the last one).

Depending on your store settings, the quantity selector may not be visible in your product list if the products have options, therefore it would only appear in the product pages. With that in mind do you really need to remove it at all? Do you feel that your customers would order 2 '15 widget' packs instead of 1 x '30 widget' pack?

With regard to the options themselves, is there a sensible way to sell those products in the appropriate quantities to keep the quantity selector intact? For example, instead of using the matrix in your original post, could sell in packs of 5 with 1-3 at $37 (or thereabouts), 4 at $32.50, 5 at $30, etc?

That's probably squeezing your business model into what X-Cart can handle rather than the other way round (as it should be). What you really need are minimum, maximum, and multiples selectors for products, which as far as I know don't exist in X-Cart.

Welly
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