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New Custom Store Fields with Price Modification Options
September 10 2010
September 10 2010
One of our biggest problems is finding enough time to promote ourselves. We are adding powerful new features to Gutensite all the time, which meet client needs or wishes, but we don't have time to brag about them because we're off to the next project. But over the years we've created a very powerful eCommerce Store with loads of options for customization. We have some companies with highly complex product requirements that stretch us to innovate features that meet their demands.
This week we added some brand new features and revamped some old ones. Existing functionality allowed you to create Custom Fields that could be attached to products. These fields could be admin-facing (require input from the administrator when the product is created and later display static content to the customer) or they could be customer-facing (require input from the customer when they checkout). Well, we just recently added the ability for customer-facing Custom Fields to have specific Price Modifications for each option.
So lets say you sell t-shirts, and you want people to choose a size. You can create a customer-facing select field with options for small, medium, large and XXL. And then for the XXL option, you may want to specify that it costs $2.50 extra. So when they choose XXL the cart adjusts the price. You also have the option of specifying whether or not the price modification is effected by discounts and/or if it should flag for manual processing for some business reason. If the person uses a coupon for 10% discount, you may not want the price modification to adjust but remain a flat $2.50 because the extra cost is related to an external non-discountable factor, so they would get 10% on the base t-shirt price and then another $2.50 added on if they choose XXL. Price Modifications can also be negative numbers, so when a customer selects an option with a negative price modification, their total is reduced (comes in handy sometimes).
While we were at it, we revamped the cart so that the subtotals update with the complex combinations of coupon and membership discounts, quantity, and custom field price modifications. We also revamped the custom delivery options, which allow for a lot of complex user and product specific checks to determine eligibility for specific shipping options.
We believe these new features will come in real handy to a lot of clients. If you have your own ideas on how we can improve things, let us know.
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