Product options & price

Hi,
This one might sound a bit complicated so bear with me..

I have a product combo/package deal which when bought together is a better price. I have this listed as €100 but have special price of €70. This is fine, you can see the saving.
On this product page you can also add other items to make a bigger saving. eg item "x" is €50 when purchased on its own, but only €40 when added to this package.
How can I show the original price and the special price? eg original and special price needs to update.

eg:
value of goods €100
special price €70
add item "x" worth €50 for only €40 (now value of goods is €150 and special price is €110)

I have multiple options to add.

Thanks
James

You can search with very few words at a time for combination/quantity/discount and variants, and narrow the outcome.

Consider that at some (easily soon reached) point you might as well lower prices or give a package deal as a package product.

All the items are available separately in my store, so I want to show a saving when more is purchased.

You're essentially aiming to apply traditional quantity discounting to customer-customized assortments of quantity onesies with a diversity of base prices, albeit without delaying other customers meanwhile. True, that would make a car salesman's day, but imagine trying that on an ordinary register clerk in an ordinary bookseller or grocery, not to mention on people behind you in line. You would have the advantage of automation but the headache of double-checking at intervals to ensure that nothing jumped tracks.

Search "assortment combination quantity discount" returns nothing, lopping combination returns "3 results (0.30 seconds)" at
http://www.google.com/search?q=assortme ... encart.com
where one entry is this thread but look at the other two.

Thanks for the info,
maybe what I need is to be able to configure the product, like some pc stores do (dell).
so start with a base item, and add extras.
Just means the saving wont show..

Another tack that Dell and virtually all other computer makers sail is to treat machines as packages (at least Stateside, and that owes partly to U.S.A., F.C.C. type-approvals, partly to keeping the business end of rampant confusion down to a dull roar). You cannot ordinarily ask them what it costs extra "just" to change the hard drive, THAT hard drive comes in a different "model" with yet other changes. There the manufacturers (faced with type-approvals) choose the packages, whereas independent builders can, will, and do put together whatever you want, but even there they give a package price. The savings will show if you increment the extras in relation to the base item.

This would be a good extension, but according to latest comments its not working so well.
Seen anything similar?

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... load_id=31

The comment made on 2013-03-05 is not ecstatically encouraging, but the extension itself seems to address only ordinary product options, not an option to gang products together into a custom discount package (unless you went overboard making all products options of one another; and wound up lost-at-cart). No, not similar, and none for your quest.

It looks like I will have to re-think the discount system a bit..
Maybe initial product discounted and add options at normal price..
Basically, I have a product which combines several items (which are for sale individually on the site) as a starter kit, then other items are added to build up the kit.
The idea of offering a discount of each item when combining was to up-sell, the whole "oooh, thats cheap when I buy this, I will get it" notion!

All it took was the magic word, kit, that's the right track, prepackages, kits, kit prices . . .