How can I use/setup Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+)
There was an extension to do this but I think it is only for Magento 1.3.
Tried to setup tiers in my Simple Products, but those do not show up, or do not activate when I add to cart from my Config Product page.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks.
Edit:
In my case, I would like to use the Tier Pricing FROM the Simple Product. and not use the Tier Pricing from the Config. Product
Configurable products do not use any of the information from simple products apart from the attribute values on which the configurable product is pivoted. That means that Descriptions, Prices, Images and other data can be changed in the simple products, and the configurable products will not be changed whatsoever.
Unfortunately, hacking the price of a product in the Magento cart is difficult, as it is refreshed from the record every time the page is loaded, so what you're trying to accomplish isn't going to happen any time soon.
Your best bet might be to write a short script that will grab the simple product prices and update the configurable product record periodically. This would not need to hack through the Magento logic to work.
Hope that helps. Thanks,
Joe
Joe is right about the configurable products. To do this you would need to use grouped products instead.
I've got a commercial extension for Tiered pricing, allowing you to apply tiered pricing rules across a selection of products. For example if you sell Soap and want to allow a customer to buy 5 of any soaps and receive a lower price it's quite hard to do this within Magento. This extension solves this.
See www.webshopapps.com for more extension.
Karen
For anyone reading this, use this free extension: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Matt+Dean/extension/596/simple-configurable-products#overview
It will take the pricing from the simple product the only downside is you manually have to come up with a way to show the tiers on the configurable product page.