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List products based on price?
Question
Is there a way to allow a user to view products based on price?
For example, a drop-down menu with price ranges. The customer selects a range and you are presented with products matching that price range.
Answer
This isn't directly supported, but there are two ways of getting this functionality.
1. Without Coding
The first way would be to have a new category called 'View by price', then sub-categories of 'Up to £10', '£10-£20' etc. Then for each product, they could exist in both their normal category, and in the special price category.
Now, on the front end, the customer has a way to browse by price. You could optionally build in your drop-down menu statically with a bit of HTML on the skin to jump to the correct category display based on which option was picked.
The downside of this is obviously you have to manually enter the 'price category' each product goes in to, which could be a hassle if you are frequently changing your catalogue.
2. With Coding
The other option would be to add the functionality on to the search.asp script. With some ASP knowledge this isn't a hard job to do. You'd then have an instant way for customers to view products by price. As in method 1, you could then build a static link list or dropdown to redirect to the correct search page based on a customer selection.