I want to set up a wholesale area on my website:kennykreations.com
Only some items will be wholesale, not all products.
Currently the option that customers have to select when buying a product is Format.
Wholesale will require no format, but a number.
Will it be easiest to set it up as a subdomain so that when wholesale customers login, they only see the wholesale items?
Thanks, Lyn

Hi Lyn

An alternative would be the have the same pricing for retail and wholesale except for those products where they have real wholesale pricing for logged in customers.

Andy

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Hi Andy, the thing I am having the problem with is the choice that the customer makes.
Retail customer has to choose one of 6 formats - ART, DST, EXP, JEF, PES, VP3 - and they get an immediate download.
Wholesale customer will be ordering a number (1 or more) of design CDs, which will be posted.
So the product page that I currently have for retail cusomers does not work for wholesale; there is no option to nominate a number of Cds to purchase.
Thanks, Lyn

Could you set up a new category and set a login level so retail customers wouldn't have access but wholesale users with a login level could. The special products can then be added to that category.

Andy

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Sounds like a plan!
Thanks, Andy.
Cheers, Lyn

Hi Andy, I have set up a new category with login level 2, so can only be seen by customers with Wholesale login.
Is is possible to change the individual products page for the new category eg https://www.kennykreations.com/Antique-Rose-Quilt for the new category, so that I can allow customers to choose a number of CDs, and not a Format as is currently on the retail pages.
Thanks, Lyn

I think you would need to set up new products, wouldn't you? I mean you can't remove options from the same product depending on whether it was a retail or wholesale product, it would mean setting up a new product that is wholesale only.

Andy

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Andy, what I need for the new products is a different proddetail.php
Retail includes: $GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='productname,productimage,price,currency,options,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';
Wholesale includes:
$GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='productname,productimage,price,currency,quantity,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';
Retail product detail page needs options; wholesale product detail page needs quantity.
Is this possible? To set up a different proddetail.php for the wholesale products?
Thanks, Lyn

I think you should be able to use this in includes.php

https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46409

if(@$_GET['cat']=='12') $GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='productname,productimage,price,currency,quantity,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';

..where '12' is the identifier you'll find for the new wholesale category in the category admin page.

Andy

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Andy, thank you!
I will play with this over the next few days and let you know how I go.
Cheers, Lyn

Hi Andy, I have set up the wholesale products in a Wholesale CD category (15)

I have this is includes:
if(@$_GET['cat']=='15') $GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='productname,productimage,price,currency,quantity,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';

I have this in ectstyle.css
div.detailquantity{
float:right;
/*display:inline-block;*/
/* clear:left;*/
margin-top:15px;
width:25%;
}

div.detailquantitytext{
float:left;
display:inline-block;
padding:0px 10px;
margin-top:6px;
width:100%;
}

div.detailquantityinput{
display:inline-block;
}

div.detailquantityinput input{
border:1px solid #003333;
padding:6px;
}

On the proddetail page, there is no option to input Quantity.
https://www.kennykreations.com/Antique-Rose-Quilt-CD

What else do I need to do?
Thanks, Lyn

I thought that would work ok. As a quick test can you add another parameter there like this

if(@$_GET['cat']=='15') $GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='dateadded,productname,productimage,price,currency,quantity,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';

and let us know if the date shows_ Also make sure that lines comes after your main detailpagelayout paramter in includes.php

Andy

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Date does not show, Andy.

Looks like that may not be possible then. I can't think of an alternative off the top of my head but will give it some thought.

Andy

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Andy, I have been able to get a Quantity button on the proddetail page by setting up a Multi-purchase option in Product Options.
So I think this will work, but it nees some styling.
I will email you the wholesale login so that you can have a look at it and tell me what I can do to improve it visually.
Thanks, Lyn

That works well - good idea.

Try this in your css file

.detailmultioptiontext{width:260px !important}

Andy

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Hi Andy,
I have tried a different approach.
I have this in includes:
$GLOBALS['detailpagelayout']='productname,productimage,price,listprice,currency,options,quantity,addtocart,description,previousnext,emailfriend';
This works really well for the wholesale products.
On the retail pages, it shows Format options and also Quantity. I don't need Quantity there, but I don't see any way to delete it.
Not sure if this is possible.
If not, I will live with it.
Cheers, Lyn

I don-t see how you can just remove it for retail customers I'm afraid.

Andy

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No worries, Andy.
Thanks, Lyn