Add Ability to Override Calculated Gallery Price
Damon Bates
Greetings. This is my up-vote. Galleries should cost a client less than a la cart prints and this should be automated. Packages of products (eg: a pkg of canvases, desk prints and acrylic blocks) should, intern incur additional savings over just a gallery collection. ie...buy-more-save-more should be automated at multiple levels Thanks in advance
Christine Ellis
Definitely a must-have. I order and sell "clusters" from Simply Color and they sell them at a discounted price so I can sell them at a discounted price as well. I only do IPS so I don't have to worry about a client changing something, but yes if anything changes, it wouldn't be the same cluster so it would have to be the a la cart prices. I hope you can get this real soon.
Chris Scott, Co-Founder
This is a great one. We've talked about this quite a bit, the ability to "override" a calculated price.
Here are the two biggest questions that come up for us, I'd love anyone's feedback:
- If you put an "overridden" gallery on the wall, then change something, do we then revert back to a la carte pricing? My gut says "yes". We're basically treating that overridden gallery as its own product. Any changes to that product and it's just not the same product anymore.
- If someone just happens to design their way into a gallery that has an overridden price, do we give them the lower price? This has a fair bit of technical overhead to constantly be watching to see if someone "accidentally" designs a discounted gallery and could slow the server down considerably.
Amber Foster Smith
Chris Scott, Co-Founder: I really would love to see this one implemented! The vendor I work with gives quantity discounts on the same frame finish and size. So when creating a gallery wall collection the a la carte pricing is different from what I would actually want to price it at.
#1 : Absolutely! If one thing changes then it would need to go back to a la carte pricing. The discounted price would only apply for the EXACT same combination.
#2 : Personally we are the only ones who design the galleries and do not offer that option to our clients. I would say to only offer the discounted price is if you purposefully select that collection. If someone stumbles upon it then it would be up to us to extend that discount. I personally don't think it would be worth all of the extra on your end.
Trevor Lucy
Chris Scott, Co-Founder: Hey Chris! I think this feature would be beneficial all round yes and I'd love to see it as long as it gets me out of my current quandary. I'd use it in this scenario where I'm ordering the Art Panel Multi's from Loxley Colour (https://www.loxleycolour.com/walldisplay/edge-to-edge/art-panel-multi#sizes).
Re point 1 - As soon as you make changes to the 'overridden' gallery, then it is a different product so absolutely revert to the normal a la carte pricing.
and re point 2 - If someone was to stumble upon the discounted product layout, then I don't see the problem with offering it to them. I'm not losing out as I have a cheaper cost price and the customer is happy as they end up saving money so it's a win win really. Happy customers mean good referrals. I'd rather make a sale and a happy customer than work with a slow server!! :)
I would have to say that, thinking about point 2 - I would be using this against a fixed and rigid product with multiple image windows all jointed together. For this reason, I think I would need to have my sizes and arrangements available in a different product range than the standard Art Panels as such. Or would it be possible to have each 'arrangement' as a product line so that to change all of the sizes its just a drag of the corner on all of the image windows?
I'd like to work with the 5, 7 and 9 panel options within this range. The 7 and 9 options have 3 different price options, whereas the 5 panel options has two layout types, each with a small, medium and large, like thus:
Small - 1@ 6x6 and 4@ 8x6
Medium - 1@ 8x8 and 4@ 10x8
Large - 1@ 10x10 and 4@ 12x10
Type B
Small - 1@ 6x6, 2@ 8x6 and 2@ 8x8
Medium - 1@ 8x8, 2@ 10x8 and 2@ 10x10
Large - 1@ 10x10, 2@ 12x10 and 2@ 12x12
p.s. I don't envy Cyrus' job :)