Advanced Pricing Formula

(Formerly Variable Math)
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Feature Description

The Advanced Pricing Formula element is great for products and services that require you to customize the math of a product or service using variables.

For example: $productOne x $productTwo / 30

Table of Contents

Benefits, Features & Use Cases

How It Works

How to Activate & Use This Feature

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Step 1. Add Advanced Pricing Formula

To add Advanced Pricing Formula, first click on the "Advanced Pricing Formula" button (formerly Variable Math)

Settings & Options

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1. Element Title

First, you can create a title for the element.

2. Customization

Now, let's dive into the interesting stuff... By default, the Advanced Pricing Formula element creates 2 products that you can change or customize easily. You can change the product's name, value in price, max quantity and a type of front-end element to control this product.

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3. Add Items

You can also click on the "+Add Item" button to add more products

Advance pricing formula Example

4. Total Calculation

Now, here it comes the real power of the Advanced Pricing Formula element. With the "Total Calculation" field, you can create math operations (+, -, *, /) to operate with all the products/services you created. For instance, in the next image we are calculating the shipping cost based on the product dimension (width, height, length)

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And we are multiplying each value to get the total calculation:

Result

And this is the end result!

Adding Calculation Parameters to the Advanced Pricing Formula Element

(Input fields)

Direct Addition

Add a Slider, Quantity Input Box, or Checkbox directly to the Advanced Pricing Formula element.

Link Existing Elements

 Link any existing element within the cost calculator form to the Advanced Pricing Formula element.

Link Section Totals

Connect to any section total within the form to include its value in the calculation.

In the latest versions of Stylish Cost Calculator, you can link other elements as a variable in Advanced Pricing Formula. The calculated value of the element will be the value returned by the variable. Use the “[+] Link Element” button to add an element as a variable.

Advance pricing formula link section total

3. Section's Total

You can also add a section's total to the variables list.

Writing Formulas

You can write formulas in a JavaScript like syntax, use * to multiply the variables. Here are some sample formulas.

Input1 * (1.15)

Advanced Options of Advanced Pricing Formula

Default 0 Value

Enabling this option will set the value of variables that have not returned any value set to 0 and will let the formula execute. If not enabled, the formula will not execute until all of the variables becomes available. 

We would like to encourage you to try it out. Many users find solutions to complex problems that didn’t even occur to us. 

Video Tutorials

Additional Information

Special Notes

You may want to read about our Fee & Discount Adjuster element that is used for triggering fees/discounts, charging base fees, adding percentages to the end of your total, converting totals to monthly pricing, and much more.

Related Features

Fee & Discount Adjuster

This feature is for businesses looking to adjust their pricing dynamically.

Limitations

WooCommerce Shipping Functionality – SCC will not pay the fee to a shipping option in WooCommerce. We recommend you use the shipping rate functionality of WooCommerce that is built-in.

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