Different price for logged in users

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Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 24/10/2022 16:21:24

Hi there.

I have the following business requirement.

Anonymous users can see products but not order them. The price they see is the standard recommended retail price
Logged in users can see products and order them. The price they see is a standard price for all logged-in users but differs from the retail price.

So, each product will have two prices and depending on whether you are logged in, one or the other will be shown.

Using Swift, what is the easiest (read fastest/cheapest) way to implement this? I can still change the integration so if needed I can extend the products endpoint to include the second price, or use the ProductPrices endpoint to return two prices for each product.

I can think of a few solutions:

1. Custom price provider that looks at the standard price or a custom field for a product.

2. Using the price matrix, and forcing all users in a specific group to which a separate price applies.

3. Use the "Amount from field" option on a product discount. This is probably the simplest; but it feels wrong as it's not a discount.

Are there others?

Thanks!

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Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 25/10/2022 10:53:34

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Hi Imar,

I am assuming you are not using Live Integration, and just batch integration. In my opinion the best scalable way would be the Price matrix because:

You don't need any dll nor custom template changes
You have UI access to manipulate the data
You can generate Smart Searches to populate user groups (or have them be integrated)
- This technique is also useful to drive shipping methods, payment methods, permissions and whatnot - we've been using it more and more

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

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Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 27/10/2022 08:23:20

Thanks Nuno. That's what we ended up doing. It just meant more work on the integration to get the custom prices in the GetPrices end point which we tried to avoid. But longer term it seemed to be the better option.

Imar

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 27/10/2022 10:25:25

Hi Imar

A product can have a "Informational" price in the price matrix - and that will show up on the product viewmodel a long with the 'real' price.

The informational price would be the RRP and is informational only - will never be the real price.

BR Nicolai

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 27/10/2022 10:26:59

It is the property "ProductViewmodel.PriceInformative"

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 27/10/2022 16:34:21

Thanks Nicolai, I had tried that, but when I do the anonymous user sees the product's price, and not the price from the matrix marked as informative anymore. Not sure if that's Swift or anything else doing that.

Imar

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 27/10/2022 16:35:59

Oh, I think that's what you meant with "Swift currently do not support price informative " in the other thread. Makes sense, thanks.

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