I'm building a website for my client, who is selling patio covers. These patio covers can be configured by the customer, involving a lot of different attributes. Think of color, material, finishing options etc. That's why I purchased your composite products plugin, to try and achieve that.
Now, the thing I struggle with is this. The price is defined by the width of the patio cover PLUS the depth. So, a patio cover 4 meters wide and 2 meters deep costs €1371, but when you increase the depth to 3 meters it'll cost you 1758.
In the ideal situation, site visitors get to choose the width first, and then the depth. Those 2 options combined will result in a price. However, with only the composite products plugin it seems like I can only use product variations with both width AND depth in them. If I'll configure it like that, visitors will have to choose from 70 (!) variations, instead of 10 in the WIDTH step/component and 7 in the DEPTH step.
Please find here an example of what I'm trying to achieve:
For your case, I think you should try our WPC Product Options plugin. We have just released it on the WordPress repository for free.
Now, you can create your patio cover as simple product. And add fields for the depth and width. You can configure additional price for each fields.
For example, if a standard 1x1 cover has the price at $20, I create a simple product at $20. Now, you will need to calculate how much each extra meter will cost for the depth and width to add up to the final cost you need. I will take 1m depth as $12 and 1m width as $13.
Then add two fields as in my image:
When customers choose the depth and width in the frontend, the final price will be the sum of the product price and the add-ons. The price of add-ons will be synced with the main product's quantity as well.
We are about to release a new plugin called WPC Price by Quantity for WooCommerce very soon, however, since your products need the price based on the variation, not the main product's quantity, so I think it will be better if you configure the additional prices as add-ons like this.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Hi there,
I'm building a website for my client, who is selling patio covers. These patio covers can be configured by the customer, involving a lot of different attributes. Think of color, material, finishing options etc. That's why I purchased your composite products plugin, to try and achieve that.
Now, the thing I struggle with is this. The price is defined by the width of the patio cover PLUS the depth. So, a patio cover 4 meters wide and 2 meters deep costs €1371, but when you increase the depth to 3 meters it'll cost you 1758.
In the ideal situation, site visitors get to choose the width first, and then the depth. Those 2 options combined will result in a price. However, with only the composite products plugin it seems like I can only use product variations with both width AND depth in them. If I'll configure it like that, visitors will have to choose from 70 (!) variations, instead of 10 in the WIDTH step/component and 7 in the DEPTH step.
Please find here an example of what I'm trying to achieve:
https://www.solundo.nl/tuinkamer/?product=1392
Is there any way I can achieve something similar like in the above link? If so, how? If not, what is the closest thing I can get to that?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Jeroen,
For your case, I think you should try our WPC Product Options plugin. We have just released it on the WordPress repository for free.
Now, you can create your patio cover as simple product. And add fields for the depth and width. You can configure additional price for each fields.
For example, if a standard 1x1 cover has the price at $20, I create a simple product at $20. Now, you will need to calculate how much each extra meter will cost for the depth and width to add up to the final cost you need. I will take 1m depth as $12 and 1m width as $13.
Then add two fields as in my image:
When customers choose the depth and width in the frontend, the final price will be the sum of the product price and the add-ons. The price of add-ons will be synced with the main product's quantity as well.
We are about to release a new plugin called WPC Price by Quantity for WooCommerce very soon, however, since your products need the price based on the variation, not the main product's quantity, so I think it will be better if you configure the additional prices as add-ons like this.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Best regards.
Janilyn T. - WPClever Support Agent
Hi Janilyn,
Thank you for your elaborate response, very kind. I'm afraid the pricing is not lineair, and thus I cannot make that approach work.
Thanks anyway!