One product different prices

  • Resolved Cristian

    (@mastix)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hello:

    I want to set up a store that sells digital files (photos). But the price for the photo depends on the use. For example Personal use 10$, book cover 50$, commercial use 100$.

    How do I set this up. I suspect that by variable product, but in reality the product is the same. It is the customer use of it that will make him choose a price on another. It is called Rights Managed images.

    Variable products as far as I know need a product Id by their own, also every product a distinctive url and every subproduct also a different image.
    But that is not what I want. I have 1 product, un download link when purchased, one product image but 5 or 10 different prices depending on the usage of the product.

    How can I make this work?

    Thank you for your help

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  • Hi @mastix!

    I understand that the only variation in your case is the license, and according to that the item’s price changes. I suggest you still go with the ‘variable’ product type.

    Variable products don’t need to have a different image for every variation; you can provide just one in the main listing.

    Also, the IDs and URLs remain the same. These do not change. You have the option to define different SKUs; but that is irrelevant as you are selling digital products.

    Reference: https://woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/

    With this setup, you’ll create different license variations with different prices. Users will select their license, pay the applicable amount and download the image.

    I found this useful video that shows the process of creating the variable product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lalb-8G05Z8

    Let us know if you have questions or if you need further steps.

    Best!

    Thread Starter Cristian

    (@mastix)

    Hi Pranav:

    Thank you for your input. Unfortunately I found that variable product do need a link and name , if I leave those blank the client does not get the downloadable link. So if I have 10 price variation my CSV/Excel sheet gets populated with 10 different rows of new products (yes they refer to the same Google Drive archive) but I have 10 new lines and now I don’t even know how to star with the Excel formulas to not mess everything up.

    Because manually it is easy to generate, although impossible because it would take me years to write the data of every photo when I have thousands. And with Excel i have no idea now how to cope with 10 different products every time. For sure an action exists, and I will have to investigate.

    When I have exported to CSV I see that the ID of every variation is different, so I guess that they are considered every one a product by their own. Correct?

    It would be so much easier if it was considered 1 product(simple) but with different pricing options.

    Best regards and thanks for your help.

    Cristian

    Hey Cristian!

    Thank you for providing more details. That is correct, a URL and name will be required for each variation; but, it can be the same for all variations.

    When I have exported to CSV I see that the ID of every variation is different, so I guess that they are considered every one a product by their own. Correct?

    At the UI level, the variations are created and managed under a single product listing. As far as I know, CSV files can’t contain hierarchal information; so, the variations might be getting exported as separate product listings.

    It would be so much easier if it was considered 1 product(simple) but with different pricing options.

    I get your point, you’re looking for a simple product that only allows you to add a dropdown for the license and accordingly change the price of the product.

    So, you can use WooCommerce’s Product Add-Ons extension. Using this extension, you can set a dropdown for custom values like licenses, and also introduce different prices for each option (as shown below).

    Note: If you want to try our products, please note we have a 30-day refund policy. If the product doesn’t work the way you need or you think another product would work better, we are more than happy to offer a full refund. You can read more about our refund policy on our website here: https://woocommerce.com/refund-policy/

    If you have questions or if this doesn’t solve your problem, let us know.

    Best!

    Thread Starter Cristian

    (@mastix)

    Hi Pranav:

    Thank you very much. This is looking good and could work with what I need if in the CSV files it doesn’t populate it with 10 more entries for every product (like it was a new product) because managing it is more complicated if you are no CSV/Excel expert like me. I have enough complication creating the CSV sheets with the product images,high res image links, etc to add now 10 more rows by every files because of the variation.

    I hope one day Woocommerce can have direct uploads and entering fields in batch. I think you will make very happy thousands of little shoppers that go now to Shopify because woocommerce is much more complicated.

    But thank you for the tip and I hope i can make work it out for my future shop

    Best regards

    Cristian

    Thread Starter Cristian

    (@mastix)

    Well Finally I discarded it because in reality with this kind of add-ons you have a price and then add on it. That is not what I want . There is no initial price. The price is in a drop down but not added. It has to be the final price. I could price all items a o$ but that would be also weird.

    For image licenses, Woocommerce is not ideal at all. You have to go the variable product route and then you complicate yourself with CSV/excel files because sudenly your product is multiplied by ten with different names etc. So making formulas in Excel to apply to the other single products is also not easy.

    It would be much easier for WooCommerce to create a global price list for all the products, upload them in batch and be done with it. And not this complicated route.

    So far very disappointed and frustrated with the difficulty and hops you have to make with Woocommerce ??

    Pranav R.

    (@pranavrana89)

    Hey Cristian!

    Well Finally I discarded it because in reality with this kind of add-ons you have a price and then add on it. That is not what I want . There is no initial price. The price is in a drop down but not added. It has to be the final price. I could price all items a o$ but that would be also weird.

    Yes, you can add an initial price of $0 for your products and then specify license prices as flat rates.

    I understand that initially showing the product price as $0 doesn’t make sense, and can cause confusion for the end user. A solution to this would be to hide the initial price of $0 (as shown in the screencast): https://d.pr/v/gUN9re

    This way, your users will only see the license price.

    It would be much easier for WooCommerce to create a global price list for all the products, upload them in batch and be done with it. And not this complicated route.

    I understand that you are trying to create a CSV file for uploading the data and to avoid creating multiple rows for different variations.

    Please correct me if you are trying to achieve something else.

    If you try this plugin, it will give you multiple options. Your CSV will only have one entry per product as this is a simple product.

    However, the product options needs to be uploaded separately; these are stored with the key ‘_product_addons’ in the table ‘wp_postmeta’ (screenshot attached for reference).

    I hope this helps. Let us know if you have questions, or if you are referring to something else.

    Best,

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