Installation options

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For some products installation is free. For others it's Price On Enquiry (POE). What are the alternative methods for defining and displaying installation costs?

• The Installation Cost ( ACF field installation_cost ) is available in the Installation cost and Options discount meta box for each Product.
• For Brands there's an Installation Cost ( overrides global install cost ) ( ACF field installation_cost_override ) that's defined in Price per sq ft.
• Note: I'm not sure what's meant by overrides global install cost.
• It's set to 5 for Passmores ( post ID 2334 ), but (at least some) of these products have Installation cost defined.
• Currently 61 Deponti products have an Installation price optional upgrade. For each of these products the price is set to 0. The Description is "PRICE ON ENQUIRY".

When a Deponti product is displayed the user sees two Installation sections. The first is for the optional upgrade. The second, which appears after the building removal section, indicates that installation is FREE, when the Installation Cost is 0, or you have a choice when it's not zero. Here I've set it to 100.

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Requirements

• When there's an optional upgrade section entitled Installation the logic to display the second Installation section is not required.

Proposed solution

• This second section is implemented in installation-addon.php
• When $installationStatus is false this section is not displayed.
• The first section is implemented in addons-main.php
• It contains generic logic handling each of the optional upgrades.
• We can add a line of code to set $installationStatus to false when the title of the area is set to Installation.
• The second installation section would therefore be omitted.

<?php if ( 'Installation' === $addon['title_of_area']) { $installationStatus = false; } ?>

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Note: I'm not sure what's meant by overrides global install cost.

• I believe the logic to set a global install cost has been removed.
• The value obtained from the options table ( options_install_cost_per_square_foot ) is 10.
• This is overridden by the installation_cost_override for the Brand.
• For 119 of the Products the Installation cost is set to 0 - FREE UK installation
• For 751 it's a value other than 0 - giving the buyer a choice
• Except when the 'Installation' optional upgrade will display the PRICE ON ENQUIRY box
• I can't see where the Installation cost defined for the Brand is used anymore
• The Installation cost for the product overrides the value set for the Brand.

This was confirmed by checking the Installation costs for products in the Passmores brand.

So, there are two options remaining:

1. Use the Installation cost in the meta box
2. Use the optional upgrades method for POE

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Requirements from an email on 28th June.

Regards to Deponti and Lugarde, global base work and installations should be removed as I have entered those Manually.

Although when entered manually, figure of "0" needs to be removed. On the description price on application written.

Proposed solution

• Instead of displaying the figure of + £ 0.00, we can simply not display it on the option when the value is 0.
• This can be done by hiding the price using CSS.
• This can be done regardless of the description displayed below the checkbox.
• The zero value will be shown in the cart and checkout pages.

There are other options where the price is 0.

eg For https://gvg.co.uk/store/deponti-bosco-veranda-4060x3000mm/#options_area the zero cost options are:

• Colours
• Gutter
• Posts
• Two of the roofing options
• LED Lighting

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Delivered in v1.3.0

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On Friday, Yasmin called regarding having the ability to set Price on Application ( aka Price on Enquiry ) against the product without having to create an optional upgrade.

In the live site, the ACF Options value for Installation (free) had been set to Price on Application. When viewed on the front end this appears as

It's not possible to deselect the check box.

See https://gardenvista.co.uk/store/alton-broadwell-10-x-10-ft-summerhouse/#options_area

The previous version of the text was FREE UK INSTALLATION.

The number of products with a particular value for installation_cost are:

Qty	Installation cost
338	blank
119	0
41	420.00
21	350.00
etc	various

Notes:

• The FREE installation logic applies when the installation _cost is either blank or 0.
• This is approximately one third of the products.
• In order to set an Installation option for Price on Enquiry the current method is to use the Optional Upgrade.
• There are 61 Deponti products that use this.

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The logic that deals with the installation_cost post meta field is in template-parts/shop/addons/installation-addon.php

When the $installCost is 0 the FREE display is as in https://github.com/bobbingwide/vgc/issues/40#issuecomment-1188804603 else it displays the No installation and Installation radio buttons.

If required the logic could be extended to support Price on Application / Enquiry. This could be done by another checkbox in the Installation cost and Options discount metabox or by setting the value to -1 ( for example ), which would trigger new logic to enable the user apply for a quote.