LiteCommerce:WholesaleTrading:Working with individual products
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Working With Individual Products
Defining wholesale prices on products
Wholesale Trading module implements a flexible discount program for volume purchase orders. You can set special prices for certain purchase amounts and certain customer memberships. You can specify as many special prices and conditions as you need.
Follow the instructions provided below to define a wholesale price on a product:
- Choose the 'Products' section from the 'Catalog' menu in the Administrator Zone.
- Find the product and click on its title to enter the 'Product Info' page.
- Click on the 'Wholesale pricing' tab to switch to the wholesale settings page of a product.
- Enter the discounted product price, product amount to which the decreased price should apply, and the membership condition.
- Click on the Add button.
The new wholesale price will now appear in the 'Wholesale price list'. You can define multiple wholesale prices for different conditions. To modify conditions and price of an existing wholesale discount, edit the corresponding fields and click on the Update button next to the record. To delete a wholesale discount, click on the Delete button next to it.
Setting up product access restrictions
Default LiteCommerce configuration makes the whole online store catalog available to all Internet users. Wholesale Trading module allows the store administrator to define product access restrictions for any product in the store. For each product in the catalog the administrator can specify members of which membership group(s) can see product information and price, and order the product. Follow the instructions below to define product access restrictions:
- Choose the 'Products' section from the 'Catalog' menu in the Administrator Zone.
- Find the product and click on its title to enter the 'Product Info' page.
- Click on the 'Product access' tab to switch to the product access settings page.
- Three sets of permissions are defined here:
- 'The product will be shown to' set contains the list of membership groups, whose members can see this product in the catalog in the Customer zone.
- 'The product price will be shown to' set contains the list of groups, whose members can see the price(s) of this product.
- 'The product will be available for sale to' set contains the list of groups, whose members can buy the product.
- Select membership groups that should be given the corresponding privileges. Use <CTRL>-click to specify more than one group. Choose 'All' to make a certain privilege unrestricted.
- Click on the Update button to save restrictions.
Customers that do not have enough privileges cannot see restricted information or perform restricted actions.
Defining product purchase limits
You can limit the purchase amounts of select products so that a customer could not purchase an amount which is lower than the minimal or higher than the maximal amount allowed.
Follow the instructions provided below to define product purchase limits:
- Choose the 'Products' section from the 'Catalog' menu in the Administrator Zone.
- Find the product and click on its title to enter the 'Product Info' page.
- Click on the 'Purchase limit' tab to switch to the product purchase limit settings page.
- Enter the minimal and maximal purchase amounts allowed.
- Click on the Update button.
To cancel purchase amount restrictions, unset the purchase limit values and click on the Update button to save changes.
If ProductOptions module is installed, product purchase limit applies to the total quantity of all product variants being purchased. |
Granting membership through product purchase
As a part of your store promotion program, you can choose to grant wholesaler or other group membership automatically to any customer who buys specific products. When a customer orders such a product and his order is processed and marked as' Processed', he automatically receives a membership associated with the purchase of the product for a specified period of time.
To define a membership to be granted through product purchase, take the following steps:
- Choose the 'Products' section from the 'Catalog' menu in the Administrator Zone.
- Find the product and click on its title to enter the 'Product Info' page.
- At the bottom of the 'Product Info' page find the 'Select membership to sell through this product' field and choose a membership for a drop-down menu.
- In the 'Membership validity period' field, specify the time period when this membership is to be valid. Once the membership expires, the customer's membership level is set to the one he had previously. Setting this field to '0' (zero) means unlimited time membership.
- Click on the Update button to save these settings.