[ic] HOWTO: minimum and batch quantities

[Guido Sohne <caught_one@yahoo.com>]

I've recently implemented batch and minimum quantities for 
an Interchange store. There may be others who one day could 
need to implement this same functionality. 

Here's how I did it ...

Definitions:

  minimum quantity is the least number of items 
  for a given sku than can be ordered.

  batch quantity always exactly divides the number of 
  items (above the minimum quantity) that must be 
  ordered at once

Step One:

  Change your products database to include two extra 
  fields: min_qty and batch_qty

  For a SQL database, you can use this:

    ALTER TABLE PRODUCTS ADD COLUMN min_qty VARCHAR(4);
    ALTER TABLE PRODUCTS ADD COLUMN batch_qty VARCHAR(4);


Step Two:

  In your shopping cart page (usually ord/basket.html 
  or similar file), add a

    [batch]

  tag before the

    [item-list]

  tag.

  If you would like to display a message to the user of
  the catalog when quantities have to be adjusted to
  meet the minimum and batch quantity requirement, then
  include the code below in your shopping cart page at
  the location you want the message to appear.

  [perl]$Items->[[item-increment]-1]->{message}[/perl]


Step Three:

  Edit your catalog.cfg and add the code below to it.
  You may want to customize the message that will be
  displayed when quantities are adjusted by [batch]


UserTag batch Routine <<EOR
sub {
foreach my $index (0 .. $#$Vend::Items) {
	my $code = $Vend::Items->[$index]{code};
	my $oqty = $Vend::Items->[$index]{quantity};
	my $base = $Vend::Items->[$index]{mv_ib};
	my $nqty = $oqty;
	my $batches = undef;

	my $min = Vend::Data::database_field($base, $code,
                                                    "min_qty", undef);
	my $batch = Vend::Data::database_field($base, $code, 
                                                    "batch_qty",
undef);

	$batch = 1            if $batch <= 1;
	$min   = 1            if $min   <= 1;
	$nqty  = 0            if $nqty  <= $min;
	$nqty  = $nqty - $min if $nqty  >  $min;

	$batches = int($nqty / $batch);
	$nqty = $min + $batches * $batch;

	my $message = <<EOM;
	<br>
	<p style="font-size: 10px">
	You must order at least $min items.
	</p>
	<p style="font-size: 10px">
	Additional items must ordered in multiples of $batch.
	</p>
EOM

	$Vend::Items->[$index]{quantity} = $nqty;
	$Vend::Items->[$index]{message} = $message if $oqty != $nqty;
	$Vend::Items->[$index]{message} = "" if $oqty == $nqty;
}}
EOR


Voila!!!! Minimum and batch quantities. Shaken, not stirred.

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