SUM DIMENSION PRICING

Charge your customers by the variable size of the item they are ordering. This MIVA Merchant module is used to calculate prices on items which are priced, e.g. by the foot, by the inch, or other units of measure. This is particularly useful when the store owner does not want to have a pull down select list of infinite values.

The module also eliminates the common hack that stores have used which involved using the number of the items added to the basket to adjust charges. This module allows the customer to specify two dimensions (e.g. length and width) as item attributes on the product screen (PROD) and still be able to order more than one of that item. Not for upsell products. For example, ordering four 8" X 10" picture frames involves entering 8 in the length attribute and 10 in the width attribute and entering 4 in the add to basket quantity input.

The store owner determines the storewide number of free units (if any), and the lowest and the highest values that can be used in the measurement. The store owner can also use price groups to vary the dimension pricing for applicable customers. The attributes type is usually text but could be select list pull down. It cannot be a template. The attribute prompts can read whatever the store owner desires to direct the customer to enter the numeric measurement. If you are using our Attribute Prompt vs Code module, that prompt will also display on the basket, invoice and emails instead of the attribute code. The store owner's settings are configured in admin.

The customer enters the dimensions to form the combined units (dimension 1 plus dimension 2) and the module calculates the price based on the calculated units times the price of the first dimension attribute.