Variation Price [+£5] Issue – just a thought that might work?

[Willis]

I have noted that a few people, including myself, have concerns about the way variations with price changes show up on the page, with squared brackets [+ £5] revealing the amount each variation product has increased in cost compared to the base price set for the product. I understand that the system works by adding the figures together, and therefore it needs to be there, even though for customers it can look confusing. I’m just wondering if there is possibly a way of changing the colour of the font for the [+ £5] text to match the same colour as the background – so that it would resolve both issues, ie, the amount would be there but the customers would not see it?

Also, I did read a little while back that there was possibly going to be an update on the way ‘variation’ prices show on the page – is this still the case and do you have a rough idea of when this would likely to be available.

[admin]

Recently I have made a change to the plugin that should help with this. The product price now gets updated and the total price is shown to the customer dynamically when the customer selects the variations.

More details here:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/updating-price-field-when-selecting-a-variation

[Willis]

Excellent – really appreciate your work on this update as it will be a massive help.

Could you let me know roughly when it will work for Fancy10, as that’s the one I want to use it with.

Many thanks.

[admin]

I have updated the extra shortcodes plugin. If you download a new build of the extra shortcodes plugin now you will get this dynamic variation price update feature with fancy 10 product display template.

[Willis]

Thank you very much for this update. It’s great that it now updates the ‘Price’.

Is it possible to remove the [+£5] part in the squared brackets from the select dropdown? That bit is very confusing for customers, as they keep asking is that amount in addition to the price. If it has to be there for the purposes of the calculation, is it possible to disguise it in CSS by making the text the same colour as the background?

[Ivy]

You can change the “+” character to something else like “Add” but you can’t remove it totally. Look for the “Variation Addition Symbol” field in eStore settings to configure this.

The price is needed for the variation to work properly.

I don’t really understand why a customer would get too confused since it is a standard practice. You can see examples of this on sites like Apple, Dell etc. You will see they all show the amount that will be added to the price for selecting a particular variation. I would actually get confused if I choose a variation which costs extra but the price amount wasn’t shown to me anywhere.

[Robert]

I have a similiar issue, where I want to dynamically show a different price, but don’t want the select to show anything about the price. In my case, it is for a special discount program that is explained elsewhere on the page. Not sure if this is what others are looking for, but I was able to accomplish this by using the label attribute.

The original code in the get_variation_and_input_code function (eStore_button_display_helper.php file line 99) is:

$var_output .= ‘<option value=”‘.htmlspecialchars($tmp_txt).'”>’.$tmp_txt.'</option>’;

If you change it to:

$var_output .= ‘<option label=”‘.$pieces2[0].'” value=”‘.htmlspecialchars($tmp_txt).'”>’.$tmp_txt.'</option>’;

I believe it works. I’ve only tested this in IE, but was wondering if this could be an added option (something like show or hide variation string).

Thanks,

Robert

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