Editable Kits User Group Mapping - New User Group Price Base Tag Unavailable?

In the Neto product inventory you can set pricing so when a customer from user group 1 purchases the item as part of the kit, they pay user group 2 pricing.

However on the frontend, the pricing shown to the customer is still user group 1 pricing. This defeats the purposes of lower pricing as if they add the item to the cart they would be happy buying the product anyway and they may as well be paying full price.

Is it possible to get this changed so the user will see the correctly mapped user group pricing or does anyone have a work-around solution I can implement into the code to get it working immediately? I've checked all the price base tags and unless I've missed something none of them show the mapped user group pricing. And I can't find any base tag that shows the updated user group for each product so I don't see any way to adjust the code to make it work.

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Erik Merkley

This is interesting... and complicated. I haven't used editable kits, and you may be one of very few people to combine them with multiple user groups.

I'm not sure editable kits support user group pricing on their components. From what you are describing, you see User Group 1 pricing on the product page, but then when you choose options and add it to your cart, you see the price made up from User Group 2 prices. Is that right? Do you have a live example I could see? And maybe a screenshot of the setup in the control panel?

Chris Chapallaz (1057)

When mapped, in the checkout, it definitely uses the mapped pricing. It has no effect on the Calculate Price From Components in the control panel.

If I manually update the pricing, the Neto Advanced Config Option will auto update the pricing back once per day. I like this option as this avoids me having to keep an eye on all kits when any price is changed.

So they are definitely still relevant and handy, I just wish I knew how to access the base-tags related to them. In the meantime I have just set up to auto-calculate the 5% off on certain groups that have an internal name including "Discount" in the template file. I am sure they must be there somewhere as the discounted price appears in the cart.

Chris Chapallaz (1057)

Thanks Erik!

This is great, I haven't tried it yet but I'm confident it should work.

Now my only issue is mapping a user group to the same user group. I.e. if someone in user group 2 wants to buy the product, then the control panel will only allow them to buy at group 1 pricing, or mapped to a different user group other than their own..

I.e. user group 2 can be mapped to user group 1 or 3, but not their own otherwise it won't save.

Oh well, the kits are mainly for retail customers anyway. It seems like such a simple fix for Neto to make but I presume it's not something they would be interested in changing.

Thanks for your help mate!