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bwalz
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Posted - February 12 2013 :  17:33:17  Show Profile  Visit bwalz's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Is it possible to change prices on all products globally by percent? the prices will need to change occasionally across the board.

Also, if running two sites on one database can the prices be different using the same products from the same database on the different sites? This would need to be done by percentage as well.

devshb
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Posted - February 13 2013 :  05:28:04  Show Profile  Visit devshb's Homepage  Reply with Quote
If it's a straight-forward case of changing all the product prices, then that can be done by executing a command in sql, eg:

update products set cprice=cprice*1.1 where cprice is not null

(to increase all prices by 10%)

and/or:

update products set retailprice=retailprice*1.1 where retailprice is not null


you might also find this very useful:
Bulk Product Updater for VPASP - BYZ089:
http://www.bigyellowkey.com/bulk-product-updater-for-vpasp-from-bigyellowzone-byz089.asp

as it lets you do things like increase/decrease prices by percentages or amounts for certain categories or other searches etc, and it also lets you see what the proposed changes will be and which products they'll hit via a test run.

One thing you need to be careful about is that if you increase your prices by 10%, and then want to reduce them again later, then decreasing them by 10% will NOT give you the correct result as that 10% will be 10% of the new price, not the original price. For this reason it's often useful to set your "base" product price up in, say, price2 so that you can always draw from that base price for your calculations.

eg:
update products set price2=cprice
update products set price3=retailprice

so that you've got an easy-to-reference/use backup of the prices prior to change.

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bwalz
VP-CART New User

USA
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Posted - February 14 2013 :  07:02:35  Show Profile  Visit bwalz's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thank you Simon for your response.

The addon you have definitely will work for me in one case but I also need to run two sites off one database using the same products but different pricing. Can this addon help to do that?
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