[ic] Single Unit and Case Quantities in IC 4.9.2

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Bill Carr)]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:31, Alex wrote:
> First, thank you for such a great product. We have been 
> implementing without a hitch and have found most answers 
> through the mail-list archives and documentation.
> 
> That said there is one task we have had difficulties 
> locating a solution to in IC4.9.2:
> We have a line of products with custom attributes which we 
> would like to offer drill down searches on. This includes 
> attributes like brand and size (i.e. search for all Sony 
> products or search for all large shirts). What is the best 
> way to add support for these custom fields and then 
> generate the respective search links?
> 
> 
> Additionally some of these products offer both single unit 
> and box quantities (different sku's) and we would like to 
> group the two together. Ideally the same product display 
> page would present an option to buy the single unit(buy 1 
> item - $x) and if available the case quantity as well (buy 
> 1 box of 80 - $xx). We would want to eventually take this 
> one step further where a retail customer would see single 
> unit and box quantities while a wholesale customer would 
> see box quantities and true case quantities (x boxes per 
> case). 
> 
> 
> For example: When viewing a lollipop as a retail customer 
> you could purchase a single lollipop or buy a box of 
> lollipops (if stocked - if not, box option would not 
> appear). As a wholesale customer you could purchase 
> possibly a single lollipop, a box of 80 lollipops, or a 
> case of 6 boxes. All would have different sku's.
> 
> 
> Has anyone on the list implemented something similar or 
> know where we can look for existing support? Any pointers 
> in the right direction would be greatly appreciated and 
> I'm sure any work we do we would be happy to give back to 
> the project.
We have done something similar with beverages. We maintain an 'items'
table which contains information about the product (description,
brand/producer, vintage, etc). We have a 'prices' table that has
itemid,size,pack,price and some other stuff. This approach allows us to
maintain a single item description for multiple pack and size
configurations. Here is an example
http://www.nicholasrobertsltd.com/ic/128578 showing an item with
different prices for different packs.



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