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jashut-gmail - 8/13/2009 12:17:48 AM
   
Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
hi,

I am setting up ecommerce site. The prices of products should differ by visitor region.

please suggest.

thanks

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kentico_helenag - 8/13/2009 7:46:05 AM
   
RE:Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
Hello,

Could you please tell me how you would check the visitors region?

There is a possibility to set up the exchange rate between currencies: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/ecommerceguide/exchange_rates.htm

Or to use a system of discounts: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/ecommerceguide/discounts_overview.htm

Or set up a special taxes for particular countries: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/ecommerceguide/tax_classes.htm

The current version of Kentico CMS allows only one basic product price (in default currency) but I think you could find a workaround with the mentioned possibilities.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova
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jashut-gmail - 8/13/2009 3:58:30 PM
   
RE:Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
Thanks for your reply and appreciate fast response,

Currently I am looking at IpDatabase to find region of visitior.

I have in my mind 2 things

1. To create entirely different website and redirect visitors at global level say (session start)

2. Create new culture and get copy of whole site but change only prices for product (if that is possible.)

open for any other ideas.

cheers
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kentico_helenag - 8/17/2009 6:48:06 AM
   
RE:Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
Hello,

I should note you that products are shared across all sites so you would need to have several copies of products (with different prices) according the area in both cases you mentioned.

This article could help you to handle IP to country process: http://devnet.kentico.com/Knowledge-Base/API-and-Internals/How-to-redirect-site-visitor-to-other-location-in-.aspx

By the way, I am not sure about the security of your task. If the visitor uses a proxy (it seems he/she access the site from a different IP) it will use different prices. It would be easy to cheat to have lower prices on your site.

However, I will suggest a new feature to have a possibility to generate product prices dynamically by code. It would help you very much.


Best regards,
Helena Grulichova
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jashut-gmail - 8/17/2009 4:24:34 PM
   
RE:Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
Thank you very much.

1. The link you sent is a great help. But I don't see a method to get the regions or state whit in the country. My application need show different prices for different states (city) with in the country.
Also how frequently i need to update the ip database to have reasonable accuracy.

2. As products are shared, may be i will go for 2 different installations.

once again thanks for you response and waiting for you reply

cheers
Jash
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kentico_helenag - 8/18/2009 8:32:22 AM
   
RE:Ecommerce: Different prices for regions in one country
Hello,

1. Unfortunately, this functionality works only for countries. The different functionality you would need to develop by yourself.

2. You may use two installations but the problem with several copies of one product will remain. Either they will be in one installation or everyone in separated installation. You may clone products by API for example but if you change a detail on one product it will be needful to update the clones, too.


Best regards,
Helena Grulichova
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