Thread: Fractions of Products

Has anyone had success with fractions of a product? A potential client sells their product by the yard, so base unit would be 1 yard. However, users will need the ability to purchase 1/2 a yard or 3/4 of a yard. Now, we could obviously switch this to use 1/4 yard as the base product, however I was hoping it would be simple to modify the system to allow "0.25" or "1.75" to be entered instead.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Modifying the page to allow fractional quantities wouldn't be that difficult, but that's not all there would be to it. You'd then have to modify all of the pricing logic, the shipping logic, inventory control, etc. Making the lowest common denominator of all the fractions you're willing to sell as the base quantity is really the easiest way.

Yes, I have contracted to make this change. I first did it on the 5.9 version and have been running this since 2006. I am currently having the change made for version 7.1. You can see the 5.9 version at www.quiltbasket.com (yes, we sell fabric). Anyone else intereste in fractional support?

We did a solid and fairly non-intrusive modification for version 7.1.1.0 and version 8.0.0.0 in which you can order fractions of a product, say, you are ordering lengths of fabric. What it also does is decrement inventory and a remainder column so that your inventory is always within a unit of 1. This way, inventory can stay in check. It would require you contacting me because it's much too difficult to try to walk through on the forum.

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This is exactly what I'm looking at for my client (who is also a quilting store funnily enough). We need to be able to sell fractions of a product (measured in metres). How do you go about doing this? I also notice that on Quilt Basket, the minimum quantity is set to a decimal amount as well. We will also need this feature.

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Thanks