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i don't know the cgi command to call the product price, but i'd imagine you'd just go into the file with the "out of stock" (someoen will post the file name), and after the "otu of stock" you'll insert a <br> and then the cgi string that calls the price.

What is making your PandoraStocks site operate so slow?

What is your thinking regarding showing the price on something out of stock? What is the thought process of why you think there is a need to show it?

theblade24,03/02/2006 10:03:36 AM wrote:

What is your thinking regarding showing the price on something out of stock? What is the thought process of why you think there is a need to show it?

As osluk pointed out, every store owner will have a preference.

My thinking behind it is that I want my customers to come back, after noting that I offer a good deal on whatever product happens to be out of stock at the moment. As a shopper myself, I go nuts when stores don't show price tags. So, I want to offer better service to my customers. Also, by displaying a price for out of stock items, I reduce the chance to be bombarded by emails of people asking me how much something will cost when it is back in stock.

just my 2 cents...  

Thanks for the help guys,...

theblade24, the reason for the site being so slow is likely the servers. My site is aimed for the UK and so it resides on servers based in London. If you are far away from London I imagine that could slow it down. Also my site is pretty heavy, something that is a bit of an issue and will need to be resolved. With regards to your question as to why I want to display out of stock item prices is the exact reason as stated by osluk - basically a visitor is more likely to come back if they know the price and do not necessarily need to purchase straight away. I think it is just more friendly to the customer.

Mr. Pink, thank you for your solution however I had thought about that way round and realised it doesn't cover my needs. Using (CGIVAR)product_regprice(/CGIVAR) will only ever display the normal price for the item regardless of weather the item is on sale. Most of the items in my store are on sale where the regular price is the rrp and the sale price displays as 'our price'. In order for the price to dynamically display the actual price we sell an item at, either just a regular 'our price' if the item is not reduced or an 'rrp price' & an 'our price' if the item is reduced, I've had to edit the ste_prod.pl file within the modules library in CCP. If anyone is interested I have put the code below that I am now using:

Find the section 'Ste Prod Show Price' in the ste_prod.pl file.

Then change the section under:

#########
######### If the product is inventoried and it is out of stock,
######### we display a message instead of the price.
#########

to this code:

} elsif ($useinv eq "Y" && $inv <= "0") {

if ($sale > "0" && $status eq "S") {

$display_sale = "Y";
$display_price = "N";

if ($sale < "0") {

$sale = "0.00";

$sale = sprintf("%.2f", $sale);

} else {

$display_price = "Y";

}
} ######### End of if statement.

&display_print('ste_outstock');

Note that this won't work for items that use other price styles such as volume based prices etc. I only use regular prices and sales prices on my store and with this modification each individual item now displays the appropriate price (sale or regular) below the 'out of stock' message.