[ic] User Specified Price?

Robert Smith rsmith@crepsunited.com
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:56:50 -0500


    Why not set up a "Donation" as just like a "Gift Certificate". IIRC,
Gift Certificates cost $1.00. The user can choose to buy 15 of them in order
to get a $15 gift certificate. So just set up a "Donation" product that
works the same way, except it doesn't give to customer anything.

Hope this helps,
Robert Smith

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Palm" <stevep@sga.org>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] User Specified Price?


> > > > > We would like to offer the customer an opportunity to make an
> >> > > extra donation, amount specified by them, along with any orders
> >> > > they place.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is this easily do-able, to have a product with a user-changeable
> >> > > on-the-fly price?
> >> > >
> >> > > If not, what other options might exist?
> > > > >
> >Seems to me like a whole Pandora's boxe when you start letting
> >customers name their prices and build custom items; I'm not even sure
> >how one could know what is or is not valid.  What about returns?
>
>  Returns?  On a donation?  :-)
>
>  The whole point of this is to allow people who are getting books
>  from our non-profit organization to easily make an extra contribution
>  along with their order.  There is no product to ship in this case,
>  nor is there any concern over returns.
>
>  I still haven't been able to think of a way to pull this off....
>
>  For a while I was looking at [fly-list], but that only allows you
>  to reference (from what I read) an existing catalog item, as it
>  exists in the products database.
>
>  I think I need a [fly-item] where I can specify an item at will,
>  basically giving it a SKU, description, weight, price, etc....,
>  and putting it in their cart.
>
> --
> Steve Palm <stevep@sga.org> * SGA * Loves Park, IL *
> http://www.sga.org
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