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Re: Base price added to per-item price
You can make the fixed charge a product and use the concept of grouping
items. Search the "all-in-one" doc for "groups". There is an example.
Chris
Aaron Baugher wrote:
>
> ****** message to minivend-users from Aaron Baugher <abaugher@rnet.com> ******
>
> I'm setting up Minivend to sell printed products. My client
> uses two values in determining cost -- a base price per
> print job that doesn't depend on quantity, and a per
> impression price. For example, if I order 1000 copies of a
> flyer, he might add a $20 charge for the print job, and
> $.02 per copy, and end up with $40.
>
> Is there an standard way to do this with Minivend? It seems
> like I should be able to put the $.02 in the 'price' field
> where it'll get multiplied by the quantity, and put the
> 'base-price' of $20 somewhere else, where it can be added to
> each order for this item. I've thought about putting the
> $20 in as handling, but that seems pretty kludgey. I've been
> unable to find a better solution in the docs or list
> archive.
>
> Another thought was to dynamically generate quantity prices
> for pricing.asc from the values my client gives me:
> q1=$20.02, q5=$4.02, q100=$.22, q1000=$.04, etc. That way
> the totals would come out right, at least for those
> quantities. That seems like it could get pretty messy, but
> if that's the solution, I'll do it. In that case, is there
> a way to force the customer to select from those quantities,
> so they can't select anything in between? If not, I doubt
> that any extrapolation Minivend does to find the
> 'in-between' price would come out right, since this is
> working on a curve.
>
> Thanks much,
> Aaron
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