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Product options: display total item price for an option rather than +/- adjustment
Question
I want to use product options but have them show a total price for the item on each option rather than a +/- adjustment to the item's base price. How can I do this?
Answer
This isn't possible for logical rather than technical reasons. CactuShop supports multiple product options, so an item could be customizable in terms or colour, style, size, material, etc. each of which would have it's own dropdown menu.
The total price of the item depends on the selections of each of the menus. A certain colour choice might add $5, while XL size might add $10. Consequently it is not possible to show the total price for the item next to each colour choice as the total price of the item depends not just on the colour selection, but on other options selections such as size too.
Of course, if there is only one set of options (e.g. colour and nothing else) then logically it could be ok to have a full price next to each option in the menu, since there are no other options to affect the total price. In this case, the product should not be setup as an option product, but should be a 'multiple-versions' type. This allows each colour to be created as a separate version. These can be displayed in a tabular format or in a dropdown menu that shows the full item price.