Price Showing up as 0 when I use shortcode

Also when I click on the product cache option, I get a 404 error page. Very strange!

Fixed the 404 error page. That is no longer an issue.

Hi,
Not all product have a list price. This can depend on whether the product is from a 3rd party vendor or is an Amazon product, or just simply if the field was entered when the product was added.

Sometimes you can get the List Price by using the Parent ASIN in the request (when there are variants, as in your example, i.e., different colors and sizes). In your example, the parent ASIN is B00FQ5B49U and that does have a list price with it.

It is currently very difficult to get the Parent ASIN, however, so we are working on something to try to make it easier to find out which ASIN to use. When we have something, I will let you know here.

Warmest regards,
Don

Thank you so much Don

Usually we use LowestNewPrice as the code and it still ends up being 0.
I have a question, as an Amazon affiliate, depending on which price shortcode option you use..Do we have to state it somewhere that it is the lowest new price, or it is the list price….as these prices can vary quite differently.

Is there a shortcode to give you the current discounted price?

Thank you for your time

I don’t believe you need to state specifically if it is the List Price, Lowest New Price, etc., but it is probably not recommended to just put a price without saying what it is.

For example, if it is the new price and you are using the Lowest New Price, I would use something like, New from $99.99, or New $99.99 – then when they click they can see other pricing (when there is other pricing available).

Discounted price, is similar to Lowest New price, in that it varies from product to product and seller to seller (even with the same product). Many products lack a ‘Saved’ or ‘savedPercent’ price than List Price, so I would not really use it unless you are sure the products have it. The code for it is a long one:
Offers_Offer_OfferListing_AmountSaved_FormattedPrice
so the Shortcode would be:
[amazon-element asin="B00FQR93ZK" fields="Offers_Offer_OfferListing_AmountSaved_FormattedPrice"]
but it will probably return nothing more times than not.

Hope this helps some.
Warm regards,
Don

Thanks Don,
We forgot to mention that some of the prices are also showing up as a blank, not even a “0.” Do you know what might be causing this issue?

I would have to see some ASIN numbers and run a request on them to see what the issue is.

Post a few of them and I will try them out and see what I can find (include the locale you are using as well – i.e., .com, .co.uk, etc.).

Warm regards,
Don

B001KZ4WJE
B009LRV3SG
B00EZZKENY

all .com

The ones listed above are showing a blank

These ones are showing zero

B00JG2BYK8
B00EZZKENY
B00N2EVLZE
B00YSTEPFA

All when using Listprice

Thank you

Thanks. I will try to look at these this afternoon and see what data they return.

Will post results back here for you.

Warmest regards,
Don

thank you!

i’m not sure how https://shityoucanafford.com/ is able to pull the price to match the sale price.

creepyvegeta,
Can you check the new version (3.6.3 release a moment ago) of the plugin and let me know if anything has changed for you?

Thanks it looks like the prices are showing blanks instead of 0 now

creepyvegeta,
I checked all the ASINs you included, and it seems like almost all of them do not have a List Price associated with them. This is most likely because the seller does not enter the List Price (SRP) for those items. I also tested to see if using the parent ASIN in the case of the ZippyPaws squeakers, and that won’t work as it has not image associated to the parent ASIN.

The non-shortcode version looks for a list price and if it is not populated, uses the LowestNewPrice field. So, I can only suggest that instead of using ListPrice field, use ‘LowestNewPrice’ when there is no ListPrice.

I am going to take a look at a few things before the next update and see if I can modify it so the ListPrice returns the LowestNewPrice (or the Parent ASIN ListPrice if it has one) and also add the photo of the first variant when a parent ASIN has no image associated with it. I think, those two things may solve most of the problems.

Warm regards,
Don