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Re: [mv] Pricing based on customer status (with a few twists)
****** message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@my-books.com> ******
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Eran Binyamin Zeitoun wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Eran Binyamin Zeitoun" <eran_zeitoun@karmail.com> ******
>
> Hi!
> Let me donate from what i did... its not compleatly... and its not somthing
> like a real
> programmer (someone in the level of brigit funk or mike...) would do.... but
OK, could you please stop this. I just explained that I am NOT A
PROGRAMMER publicly and I don't want to be put in one sentence with
Mike Heins. That's a public embarassement for Mike Heins and a misreading
of my post. Sorry.
> its working
> so who cares.... (If some one will have some comments or improvments... you
> are welcome!)
>
> I hope it will help you somehow James... or anybody else.... since i couldnt
> find somthing
> at the mailing list when i started doing it...
>
> My case:
> We have diffrent kind of dealers... each dealer and his kind of price...
> Also each products group have diffrent price calculation....,
> Sometimes there is a need to a special add-on factor...
> so to get to the final price for a product the calculation
> goes like this: Price * ImportFactor * UserFactor * ProductFactor *
> PaymentFactor
>
> Price - The Basic Price (found in products.asc)
> ImportFactor - Since we import the products, each product have a diffrent
> import factor
> (cpu's 1%, Monitors 3%....), in the ProductsGroup
> Table.
> UserFactor - The special add-on factor for the customers
> (Blondes 4%, Brunetes 5%...)
> ProductFactor - When a special product should have a price raise or
> discount, we set it
> with this field in products.asc
> PaymentFactor - Since we support many payment methods... there is add-on on
> some of them
> (for credit card we chard 3% for the process... and so on)
>
> 1. I have added to minivend two tables, the first one is UserFactor table,
> where there
> i have group names and them factor... Same for ProductFactor...
>
> 2. I created a global sub, for handeling the calc...
> GlobalSub <<EndOfSub
> sub calcprice {
> my($costprice, $factor1, $factor2,$factor3,$factor4) = @_;
> my($price);
> $price =
> (((($costprice*($factor1+1))*($factor2+1))*($factor3+1))*($factor4+1));
> currency($price);
> return $price;
> }
> EndOfSub
>
> 3. for this explain, i will show how i handeled the results in
> results.html.. so whenever a product
> is displayed with the search result loop... there is a little mess going
> behind the html:
> [if value payment eq "0"][sql type=list query="select cash from ugroups
> where grp = '[value grp]'"]
> [value name="userfact" set="[sql-param
> cash]" hide=1]
> [/sql]
> [sql type=list query="select cash,
> impfact from pgroups where grp = '[item-field grp]'"]
> [value name="productfact"
> set="[sql-param cash]" hide=1]
> [value name="importfact"
> set="[sql-param impfact]" hide=1]
> [/sql]
> [currency][perl arg=sub
> interpolate=1]calcprice([item-field price], [item-field basefact], [value
> userfact], [value productfact],
>
> [value importfact])[/perl][/currency]
> [/if]
> (There are 3 possibilites for payment...., payment= 0 its cash, payment = 1
> its thirty days, payment=2 its sixty days)....
> [value grp] is taken from userdb database, and its the name of the group
> that user is belong to
> [item-field grp] is taken from products database, and its the name of the
> group that product is belong to
>
>
> I know its quite a bizzare way to do so...., but its working......
> I have only one problem.... i do all the calculation in the basket.html by
> myself...
> not using subtotal... i will be glad if someone will have an idea how can i
> set
> the price field of an item to item-price... so how can use the normal
> minivend
> tags (tax, subtotal, total) insted of my own....
>
> I hope it was clear (I still do not understand how i did it... but it
> works...)
> 8-)
>
> Eran.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "junglepost" <junglejj@swbell.net>
> To: <Minivend-users@minivend.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:49 AM
> Subject: [mv] Pricing based on customer status (with a few twists)
>
>
> > ****** message to minivend-users from junglepost <junglejj@swbell.net>
> ******
> >
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I am a medium skill level Minivend developer. I have done several
> > sites, and they all have this or that specific challenge. One of my
> > latest ones is racking my poor tired brain. If someone out there
> > could help me I will buy you a beer. Or mail you one, or something...
> > ;)
> >
> > My client wants to make his database available to both the public, and
> > to dealers. Dealers would usually pay 1/2 retail *but not always*.
> > There is a discount structure on some items that I will use common
> > adjust for (if I can under the circumstances). The discounts would
> > apply to both retail and dealer pricing schemes. This combination of
> > needs is making my set up process a little more difficult than usual.
> >
> > I have looked at several options on how to implement this.
> >
> > 1. Locale seems to be one option, but it is not obvious to me at the time
> > how to use it.
> >
> > 2. I could set a variable via a password page and try to do some sort
> > of [if variable...][perl config]
> > {config}{PriceField}='dealerprice';[/perl] [/if] type of thing
> > (dangerous??)
> >
> > 3. I could set up some sort of convoluted [discount] tags (this would
> > end up being messy and complex)
> >
> > Have any of you experience in this area? I searched the maillist
> > database and found a couple similar things, but nothing really
> > illuminating.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > James Johnson
> > flam@bigfoot.com (even though majordomo don't like bigfoot ;)
> >
> >
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