Hi I would like to ask how should I do, or which way I should go to achieving the following..

I am helping my client to build an apartments rental site. Generally is like booking a hotel, but we have one room, but many locations.
Generally I can manage to build the functions, but I am getting stuck or confused on one of the issues. Pricing.

My client wants to set per item (location) a completely different pricing scheme. Generally speaking, there will be 3 prices, high, regular and low. They want to assign the price to different date range.

i.e.
House one, from Jan 15 to Feb 23, they want to rent it as the peak season price, from Feb 24 - Oct 3 regular price, rest are low season price, and the dates are going to be customizable.
House two, other day ranges, with different price.

I am wondering, how should I approach to this feature.

In my mind, either somewhere we can set 3 prices, and has a date picker which I can choose the dates, and when populating the price, it check the dates etc. Which might be very complicated.
They other way, is with one price, the highest price set in the system, and we create discounts for each product, different discounts amounts for different period of time.
But I can’t find a field or somewhere to set , where to set the discount period, is it I can just use the date tab in EE?

I am still brainstorming about this, can you please give me some advice, and point me a direction? Thanks!

I am still brainstorming about this, can you please give me some advice, and point me a direction? Thanks!

At present I don’t really suggest using CT for this purpose. Though it could probably be used for this, it’s not something that I have enough experience in to provide you with good guidance. There is however, a software product that works with CartThrob (and works standalone as well) Called MoreEvents. You can read more about it here: http://cartthrob.com/cart/products I’m n.ot sure if it would be ideal for you or not. Really, I’d consider the rental of a day an event more than a product. MoreEvents might be able to help. I’m not sure.

Hi

Thanks for the reply.
I have taken a look into moreEvents before purchasing Cartthrob, I don’t think it fits my project, anyways, thanks and I actually wanted to know, for multiple pricing schemes.

Is it easier to do it with multiple price field, then filter it at front end? or create discounts?
But I actually can’t find how to set a discount for a particular period, can you show me?

But I actually can’t find how to set a discount for a particular period, can you show me?

I think all you need to do is set the entry and expiration date in the Date tab on the publish page.

ifonly - 23 June 2012 12:38 AM

But I actually can’t find how to set a discount for a particular period, can you show me?

I think all you need to do is set the entry and expiration date in the Date tab on the publish page.

Yes, I managed to create a discount, but it applies to all product, how and where do I set it to a particular product?
And how can I show the discounted price?

Thanks!

To set discount for a particular product I don’t think you need to be using discounts. On the product entry page set the price, say €100, and set the original price - say €110. Then on the front end show both with a line through €110.

If you want to use discounts you have to use the product entry_id - see Amount Off Product discount as an example that asks for entry_id. Unfortunately there is no way to show the discounted price on a product page, all you can do is this: http://cartthrob.com/docs/tags_detail/discount_info/index.html

Thanks, thats what I need!