Need Hack: Add Custom Processing Fees to Cart

largelylivin · April 7, 2007

Is this possible, probable, soon to come, or not likely?

I need to allow buyers to pay an additional/optional custom processing fee. Reason: So people who want coffee mugs or tee shirts can get an appropriate photo with the background appropriately removed or simplified.

I doubt that you sell that many, but I am anticipating these will be hot items for me this summer.

Andy · April 7, 2007

largelylivin wrote:

Is this possible, probable, soon to come, or not likely?

I need to allow buyers to pay an additional/optional custom processing fee. Reason: So people who want coffee mugs or tee shirts can get an appropriate photo with the background appropriately removed or simplified.

I doubt that you sell that many, but I am anticipating these will be hot items for me this summer.

Why not just build it into your pricing?

largelylivin · April 17, 2007

Andy,

Boaters love T-shirts with their brand yatch on it. So much so that they sell tons of T-shirts and coffee mugs with generic photos that are customized with their boat name. Same thing for pure bred dog owners? Now, offer them the same thing with a photo of their own real boat or dog or whatever. At the right price you'll have t-shirts and coffee mugs flying off the shelf.

I cannot figure how your suggestion is much of a solution. What am I supposed to do charge an extra $15 for every T-shirt or coffee mug? I won't sell many that way. I just want to charge an extra $15 one time and then let them reuse the photo as many times as they want.

I also considered just putting an average charge across an assumed quantity sale but that doesn't work either. How can you justify thinking that a buying customer is going to buy an average of 6 mugs when most will really be ones and twos?

Is this an unreasonable request? Is it really really hard? Ok, then say so.

BTW 85 people were interested enough to read the thread.

Andy · April 17, 2007

largelylivin wrote:

BTW 85 people were interested enough to read the thread.

Hi, easy to handle! Why not just use google checkout, and set your own fees for the job. Collect the money, then make the images, and make them available for sale.

Examples on my site, NYC Workshop and also Portraits link.

Need Hack: Add Custom Processing Fees to Cart

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