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Overview

Option-Based Pricing allows you to define pricing based on a range of characteristics of a product and the options chosen. It also allows you to create packages consisting of various products. Option-based pricing is an advanced feature and will only work if MightyMerchant has installed it on your site. Please contact us if you are interested in using Option-Based Pricing. Sites that use Option-Based Pricing will have an Option Pricing Grid at the bottom of the "edit item" page.

Basic Rules

1. The group label is required.

2. Items in a group must all share the same "price type" (either "Base Price" or "Surcharge"). "Base Price" is the price of the item. A "Surcharge" is added to the "Base Price" to calculate the final price of a product.

3. Items in the same group must have identical group labels. We recommend using copy and paste to set the group label.

4. Only one group can be set as the "base price."

Example: If you are setting up a product like "Jet Tub" and it comes in three configurations you would do this:

All other options (such as color or texture) would be set as "surcharge." Note: If the product does not have different options for the base price, then you can enter the price for the item in the product price field and set all options as "surcharge."