Description

“price-calc” is a WordPress plug-in that shows a nice inter-active price calculator form on any post, page or widget content. You can set up a set of product variations and freely define a price structure.

Once configured, it’s as easy as placing the simple

[price-calc]

mark-up anywhere in your text.

Features are:

• AJAX user-experience,
• different options for each general product type,
• a fully configurable price structure,
• instant price calculations appears on screen while the user fills in the form,
• displays a detailed cost estimate on screen,
• optional printer-friendly window pop-up,
• optional email delivery to customer and/or your company.

More info at this plugin’s homepage.

Usage Example

This example shows a price calculation form for a virtual tailor-made dog house vendor.

Download

Download the ready-to-be-installed plugin here (directly from the official Wordpress plugin directory).

Installation

• Upload the plugin directory `price-calc` to the wordpress plugin directory (usually `/wp-content/plugins/`)
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress administration page

Configuration

On your WP administration screen’s sidebar the new “Calculator” menu will appear. The “Prices” screen let’s you define all possible price.

To add a price calculator to your post, page or widget contents simply write the following code:

[price-calc]

If you have several product variations, the price calculator will appear as a step-by-step form where the user has to choose the general product variation first. In the second step the full form with all further options is loaded.

However, if you would like to display a price calculator for a given product variation directly, then use the following syntax:

[price-calc variation=<variation-id>]

Where

<variation-id>

is your variations internal identifier. In our example this would be, for instance:

[price-calc variation=dog]

Right now, the configuration for price and form structure and calculation formula is text-based. The corresponding syntax is described in this external document.

Support

Please use the forum at http://www.thickthumb.com/forums/forum/price-calc for bug-reports, suggestions, doubts or comments.

License

This program is free software, published under the GNU General Publice License, version 3 (GPLv3).

Real-world usage examples

• http://www.leemeta.si/ – calculate the price of a translation (Slovenian site)
• http://www.superiorcarports.com/calc – Superior Carports
• http://www.legalizacijagradnje.com/naknada-za-legalizaciju-bespravne-gradnje/ – Dizajn et cetera d.o.o (Croatian architecture office)
• Let me know and I place your site here!

Credits

Thanks to Brandon Hopkins from AfterHim Media for allowing me to re-use code made for his company as work for hire.

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