Hello Shopify Developers.
I'm a newbie on Shopify. How can we add a tab in product pages as Dimensions? Through this tab, we should be able to edit and change the dimensions for each specific product.
Would you give me a suggestion to do that? please teach me.
Best regards, Siva.
Shopify is not designed to allow customers to enter custom dimensions and have that affect the final price of the item.
However, this can be accomplished in principle through some roundabout steps, which involve a hidden priced product and a fair bit of javascript and the use of line-item properties to link everything together.
If you're feeling ambitious and want to make such a system yourself, the basic flow would be:
Create a product that either has a $0.01 value (or whatever the lowest denomination is in your currency) or a value of whatever the cost-per-smallest-unit that you want to sell by
Update your store templates so that any products that are marked as a component product (via tags, metafields, product type, or whatever you choose to go with) do not get displayed on collection pages, search results, etc.
For your product pages that need custom dimensions, you will need to create any relevant input fields and add whatever formulas you need to convert user inputs into units of your component product
When the item is added to cart, you will need custom javascript to add the correct quantity of the component item at the same time that the main/visible item is added to the cart. At this step, I would recommend adding line-item properties to both items that would identify that they belong together.
You will need to update your cart to hide the component product and add its price to the main/visible item for display purposes, and the quantity-update and item-remove features in your cart to make sure that when the main/visible product is updated or removed the component product is updated appropriately as well.
This can be quite the undertaking to try to take on yourself, so if any of the above steps seem daunting I would strongly recommend looking for an app in Shopify's app store that can do these steps for you. There are a lot of product option/customization apps available, and many of them have free trials that you can take advantage of to see if they meet your needs.
Of course, if you have the skills and ambition to take this project on, great! The above flow should hopefully get you started, and if you need further advice on any specific step feel free to ask another question.
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A product in my store (e.g. a fine art print) has a base price of £20 and it has multiple customizable options (size / framing) that are added as additional items to the cart (e.g. Small [£0] / Medium [+£10] / Large [+£20] or Unframed [£0] / Framed [+£10] )
I have to do it this way because some products have more than 3 variant options (Shopify only supports 3)
These additional items that represent the customization options for the base product are added when the customer adds the base product to cart, but the additional products representing options are hidden to the customer in the cart.
At checkout however all is revealed, the base product appears with 2 additional items along with their additional prices. Not ideal but OK!
However, it occurred to me that there's nothing stopping a tech-savvy nerd from grabbing the variant ID of the additional items and sending a POST request to /cart/update.js that removes them from the order during checkout.
The customer just reloads the checkout page and they've just halved the price they have to pay!
I need to prevent this from happening.
I don't suppose there's a way to validate all the items in the cart when the customer requests the checkout page?
If that's not possible, how do other Shopify stores get around this issue?
If you are on the Shopify Plus plan there are two things you can do:
During checkout validation - use Script Editor to check the cart contents and if it's invalid, set the base product quantity and additional products to 0. This will prevent customers from checking out.
Post checkout validation - use Shopify Flow to cancel the order after it's placed and if it's invalid
But that's a lot of development, especially when you are not familiar with it, it will be hard to go through and make it work as expected (covering all edge cases). It's possible to create a such script but analysis of all possible scenarios and writing a code for it will take some time. If I were you I would consider an app that creates bundles as a single item. Adding such a bundle to the cart takes a few seconds to process as the app is making some admin API calls in the background but it solves your problem. I cannot promote any paid solution on StackOverflow but you will easily find something - there are plenty of solutions in the app store.
The decision comes down to your estimation + possible change requests and fixes vs. the cost of the app on a yearly basis
I am a shopify partner, I am trying to get around the the variant limits of shopify by coding an app and also because my client has a complicated formula for calculating the price. I don't have a problem with the part that adds the information for my variants to the order, however when I want to modify the price based on the user selection, it doesn't seem an easy task to do.
I came across couple of apps which does the same thing by adding a new product or variation which is not optimal for my use case, is there any app that does the job without adding extra information to the database, if so, how?
Qualified Yes
Unfortunately, Shopify doesn't give us a lot of options to edit prices of items dynamically. Here are the two options that I know of that will allow you to adjust the price of a product directly - however, both have limitations.
Using Shopify Script Editor
If you're working with a Shopify Plus merchant, you can use the Shopify Script Editor to dynamically adjust the prices of products, provided that the direction you adjust is down. You cannot increase the price of a product using the script editor - so for your use case, the list price would have to be the most expensive possible price that the item sells for, which you would then discount appropriately using the app.
Using draft orders
Using an app, you can use Shopify's Draft Order API to create an order with custom discounts and/or create completely custom items that are independent of the products set up in the product database.
The basic flow for this is that when the customer clicks 'checkout' you halt the normal navigation, send the cart contents to your app, create a draft order with the appropriate pricing, then supply the front-end code with the draft-order checkout/invoice URL so that you can send the customer there instead of the normal checkout. This has several limitations, however, including that prices of existing products can only be discounted, not increased, and the fact that Shopify will not allow a customer to use discount codes on a draft order invoice - once an order is set up this way, Shopify's assumption is that all prices are final.
Disclaimer: Sorry if someone sensible doesn't like a response with a link :) I'm not related to this app I'm just a user.
On a project with complex pricing, we use the app Wholesale Pricing Discount by Wholesale Helper we liked because is easy to import multiple pricing by-product and relate it by customer.
this app does not multiply the products, they use customer tags. maybe that can give you some guidance.
An important rule on Shopify is you can't increase the price by API on an order, you can just reduce i
I'm trying to code a solution for a client, that doesn't wish to use apps. We need to be able to limit one of our products, so there only can be one of it in cart at a time.
Is there an easy way to achieve this without an app?
I'm fairly known in JS, HTML and basic liquid solutions. Is it possible to create a pure liquid solution or do we need javascript aswell? The store use ajax cart, which we need to keep.
Thank you,
Magnus
Any time you have a call to add to cart, ensure the quantity is 1
Any time you have a call to add to cart, first ensure that item is not in the cart
When you render the cart, take all the inputs for updating the cart away. Allow only delete.
With that, you can hope that for the most part, customers will only ever have one of something in the cart.
You can then focus on removing any ability to change the quantity when adding to cart, and ensuring that when checkout is selected, items do in fact only have a quantity of 1.
No Apps needed.
I am about to display a rack builder in my shopify.
The users can set various customization like the number of rows and columns and the size of each cell and its door option for each cell.
The problem is that I would like to know how to enable variable price for that product. I think I cant use variant product as it will be limited in number.
This will require quite a lot of customisation.
First you will need to split your rack elements into separate products:
doors
rows
columns
sizes
You will need to enter variants for each of the different elements.
Once you are done with that you will need to create a page that allows you to customise the product showing the options from the product elements you created above.
You will need to collect the product customisation with JS and add the appropriate amount of each element to the cart.
In case the customer have the option of manual input and the price is changed based on that ( for example the size of the wood ) then the functionality will become even more complex.
Long story short it will be hard to code, the administration will be complex and the user experience won't be nice.
Another way will be to look into some APP that can help you with this, but I'm not sure if there is one that has this kind of functionality.
Soon I'll be working on a project that amounts to what is essentially an e-commerce app for configured products. This question is about ways to implement pricing schemes that can change from day to day, so we want to get the pricing logic out of code and into a database, but not in a way that causes the database to do all the work.
The basic idea is this, there are 5 attributes. You pick an option from each of those attributes. Then you start adding products to your cart. All the product you add will have those 5 attributes tacked onto them (the attributes will affect the pricing). Once you've added a product, you can apply modifications to it (the attributes will also be applied to the modifications).
So, what we've got at this point is a product (which has a fixed base price) with some information about it (that will modify the price), and zero or more modifications (which has a fixed price) and some information about them (which will modify the price). Modifications can also incur additional charges. For instance, if company A uses this software and they price their items using: BASE_PRICE + $50 * NUM_WHIRLIGIGS and the item has a modification that adds a WHIRLIGIG, that will have to be reflected in the price.
Do you know of any examples of different pricing systems that I might find useful when determining how to set this up? Do you have better ideas?
My current best thought is below, you can skip it if you're not curious about the particulars of the method and just want to get right to the answering!
For any given item (or collection of items) the company could use a special interface to set up pricing formulas which would then be interpreted and evaluated at run-time.
So for PRODUCT_A, the company might put in something like BASE_PRICE + WHIRLIGIG_UPCHARGE * NUM_WHIRLIGIGS. And the software, when it comes time to price it, would look at how many WHIRLIGIGS the item has, as well as how many WHIRLIGIGS are added by any modifications.
Does anyone have experience implementing this kind of interpreter? How did it turn out? Was it difficult/troublesome?
Thanks in advance for all the awesome input I'll sure I'll get. :P
Typically, this is usually handled with product bundles which have components. So a product with 5 additional subcomponents would not be base + 5 * addon, but SUM(base, addon, addon, addon, addon, addon).
So your product table may either be self-referential or there is some kind of link table which says which sub-products are allowed to be attached to which products.
In my experience, pricing is usually stored on a product/customer or contract basis, so that's another table.
Then the actual orders themselves contain product bundles. If the order is a quote, then the pricing is frozen (up to the expiration of the quote).
When an quote or order is turned into an invoice, at that time the pricing is either locked in from the main pricing or the quote, depending upon the pricing timing paradigm.