Re: Price Structure Help

[Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com>]

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Understood, but I am trying to make this extremely simple.. Just have
minivend use or perl use some sort of logic going if they order 37 then I
guess pick a quanity of 35 or 40 and create the correct price based on the
different quantity discounts/commonadjusts.


>******    message to minivend-users from John Foster
><jfoster@augustmail.com>     ******
>
>I am just learning about minivend but I have 30 years of experience in
>running retail and wholesale business. I suggest that you use 2
>ranges/categories of  all your SKU/item numbers. 1 range for multi-packs
>and the other for single items. In short you would use different stock
>numbers for the multi-packs than the same item purchased singly. This
>also is VERY helpful when tracking sales statistics and for inventory
>control ourposes.
>
>Example:
>
>Multi-Pak:   100010010001
>Single item: 100020010001
>first 4 digits=general category ie socks, shirts,pants,etc
>second 4 digits=sub-category ie teeshirt,golf shirt,dress shirt
>third 4 digits=package range=ie multi-pak or pack size 1,10.20,100.
>Any database will help in setting up this type of catalog.
>Best wishes.
>John
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>Victor Nolton wrote:
>>
>> ******    message to minivend-users from Victor Nolton
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>> This store I am setting up has about 300 items..
>>
>> A couple of them have one price while some have 2
>>
>> The items come in various quantities..
>>
>> Item one might have     5 for $5.00 and 10 for $7.00
>> while item 2 could be   25 for $50.00 and 100 for $85.00
>>
>> I used CommonAdjust which I guess was a bad move..
>>
>> I need to figure out a way to have it (since most quantities are multiples
>> of 5) to be able to say if I order 35 of Item one It would be 3*7 + 5 and
>> give a price of $26.00. But the problem I'm facing is what if they want a
>> quantity of 37, it can't be done.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas on this sort of problem I'm open to suggestions..
>> Been fiddling with it for 3 weeks now and just am stumped (but what else is
>> new)
>>
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