Plugin maybe? Not sure if this exists :)

[Davek0974]

I use WooCommerce on my store and tonight ran into an issue that can only get worse as stock range expands...

I have a range of products, lets say i have 50 products in one group, each product has 10 variations that are different RSP's - I want to change the prices of ONE variation in each of the 50 products so i need to load the product, expand the product variations, edit the cost and save, rinse and repeat 50 times.

So, is there a way or plugin that will allow me to use price categories or price bands - i'm not even sure what it would be called, maybe centralised pricing - just have the prices listed as ABCD in the products and in a separate area a page that says A=£5, B=£10, C=£13 and so on - then to change price i only one place to edit and all listings will reflect that change????

I'm sure its been done for large shops but no idea what to search for???

Thanks

 

[cumbriawebsolutions]

Sounds like a good idea to me, in short setting global pricing based on a variable really. If it's not been done I might have a look at it, we've got some customers using WooCommerce and this could be a useful addition!

 

[Davek0974]

It would certainly save a whole lot of time, especially for large inventories.

It matters not what the options are called, could be Price1, Price2, maybe just allow user to decide and create own list, on the product variation page you could have a drop-down box option of "Use Price Variable A, B, C etc or allow a cost to be entered as normal.

I was hoping there would be something running already but interesting if you will look into it

Thanks

 

[cumbriawebsolutions]

Going to take a look at it now, who knows we might have a solution before too long!

 

[matlob]

I'm looking for a solution to this too. PW bulk edit seems to offer a solutiion but not tried it yet.

 

[Alan]

I'm working towards something similar using a spreadsheet update to Woo using the WP rest API. Not there yet but ...

 

[Davek0974]

It just seems such a simple idea, thats why i thought it would already exist

Faster and easier than even spreadsheet editing.

Seems not

 

[Alan]

maybe centralised pricing

So I'm thinking this is what you are asking, sorry to be dense.

You have a set of price codes e.g.

Low
Medium
High

In the product instead of using a value you can use a code. So you can then independently change the value of the code and it is reflected across the site.

This may well be possible as a plugin. You say no such plugin exists? If it did exist what commercial value would you put on it i.e. what would you be prepared to pay for the increased efficiency? Plugin approach is always preffered commercially if it has a market opportunity.

The alternative approach would be spreadsheet but doesn't have to involve editing manually, i.e. you add a custom field per product for the price code, the spreadsheet script extracts automatically based on the custom field, prompts you for a new price and then bulk updates the prices. Whilst I could easily build such a script monetising it ( for me ) is more tricky.

 

[Alan]

p.s. a quick google finds https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-dynamic-pricing/

which appears to have category pricing

 

[Davek0974]

p.s. a quick google finds https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-dynamic-pricing/

which appears to have category pricing

Thanks, it would need to be applied to the variable product variation price not the category - i did see this plugin but seems to be mostly concentrated on discounts.

 

[Davek0974]

So I'm thinking this is what you are asking, sorry to be dense.

You have a set of price codes e.g.

Low
Medium
High

In the product instead of using a value you can use a code. So you can then independently change the value of the code and it is reflected across the site.

Thats it

 

[zed_uk]

I used a similar thing before in open cart, the nearest thing I can find is the dynamic pricing plugin, there is this I found by typing in price bands to the wordpress directory but not used it: (can't add link as I'm a new member), just search plugins for price bands for woocommerce

Maybe try that? Not rated yet though