WooCommerce Prices By User Role

• created: 04/22/2016
• latest update: 07/08/2016
• by: Festi-Team
• email: support@festi.team

WooCommerce Prices By User Role Plugin provides opportunity to establish different prices for each customer group. Also you can do only product catalog without prices and show custom notification instead price.

There are several requirements for use of Negotiate Prices.

1. WordPress 3.8.x; WordPress 3.9.x; WordPress 4.0.x; WordPress 4.1.x; WordPress 4.2.x; WordPress 4.3.x; WordPress 4.4.x
    
2. WooCommerce 2.1.x; WooCommerce 2.2.x; WooCommerce 2.3.x; WooCommerce 2.4.x; WooCommerce 2.5.x
   Should be installed WooCommerce Plugin
    
3. A WordPress WooCommerce compatible theme
   The WordPress theme you use must properly integrate WooCommerce templates. That means using hooks (for advanced users/developers) or using our catch-all woocommerce_content() function inside your theme.

WordPress Plugin Uploader

You can install Prices by User Role via the WordPress plugin uploader without unzipping the file:

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel

2. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New

3. Click Upload

4. Click Choose File and select the woocommerce-prices-by-user-role.zip you downloaded from CodeCanyon

5. Click Install

6. Navigate to your Admin Panel -> Plugins

7. Under WooCommerce Prices By User Role, click Activate

FTP

You can also install WooCommerce Prices by User Role via FTP:

1. Decompress the woocommerce-prices-by-user-role.zip  file you downloaded from CodeCanyon

2. Find the woocommerce-prices-by-user-role folder (this directory is created when you unzip the file)

3. Upload the woocommerce-prices-by-user-role folder to your wp-content/plugins directory

4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress admin panel

General Settings

1. Navigate to Prices By User Role Section in under WooCommerce, tab “Settings”

2. Hide Add to Cart Button - hides Add to Cart Button for unregistered users

3. Tick Option “Show Prices only for Registered Users” if you need to hide prices.

4. Text for Non-Registered Users – here you can type in text which will be displayed for unregistered users. If you need use links or custom style, type html text

5. Hide Prices for User Roles - tick  the user roles for which you want to hide price

6. Text for Registered Users with Hidden Price - here you can type in text which will be displayed for user  roles with hidden price. If you need to use links or custom style, type in html text

7. Discount or Markup for all Products - choose discount or markup for all products. This value will be subtracted (discount) or added (markup) to the Regular Price for all products

8. Pricing Roles - here you can see user groups that will be displayed for each product. To activate new group for individual pricing just check box with user group name.

9. Display the Regular Price on Product Page  - here you can enable displaying discount info for  registered users with special price on product page and on cart page. User will see something similar to the following

(Img 1):

Img.1    

Watch this video to understand how to add your role prices for WooCommerce product type "Simple":

Setup Role Price for "Simple Product"

After you are done with the settings, open your product (Edit Product or Add New), you will see the new price field (Img 2) for all active user roles. Type in your price and save the product:

Img 2

Watch this video to understand how to add your role prices for WooCommerce product type "Variable":

Setup Role Price for "Variable Product"

1. Add new role or check existed one (Img 3)

2. Go to Product > Edit > Variations tab 

3. Add new role price for each variation  (Img 4)

4. Save product  

Img 3

Img 4

You can disable Prices by User Role discount for individual products. Please open Product > Edit >Check box for "Disable Discount" to ignore Price By User Role discount and Update Product

Watch this video to understand how to hide prices for certain roles for separate products:

• You need filter the products by certain category

• Select Bulk Actions "Edit"

• Mark with checkbox the user role, for which you want to hide the category

With Import Products feature you can import Simple, Virtual, Downloadable, External and Variable products from CSV. You can import CSV files with free structure, without header or with dummy columns names, and custom separators. Plugin will automatically determine appropriate WooCommerce product fields to map CSV columns or you will be able to do this manually.

How Should File Look Like

Prices by User Role import CSV hasn’t strict requirements to import file fields. When creating new products, you definitely will include the fields to maximally describe them: name, description, category, feature image, price, SKU, stock, product type, visibility, etc. You will get product created having minimum details in the file, though you should always care about informative product catalog and enrich it with all necessary specifications.

When your Prices by User Role import is dedicated to product renewing, you do not need to import all the related details, only product identifier and fields to be updated, for example SKU (identifier), price and description.

The file uploads the next data:

• Images via a URL (Requires allow_url_fopen or cURL on your server)

• Featured Image

• Attributes, categories and tags with hierarchical (Add new one if they don’t exist)

• Import Custom Fields

• Map any CSV column to any Product field

• If you include a header row, the plugin will attempt to map column values to product fields automatically.

• Validationfor multiple-choice fields (fields with a limited set of valid values like yes/no, instock/outofstock, etc.)

• Dollar signs, commas, etc. are stripped out of number fields like prices, weight, length, width, height

• If SKU already exists, existing product is updated rather than inserting new product.

• If SKU already exists and importing images, will skip duplicate image imports.

• Locale settings are supported to better handle importing files with special characters and other alphabets.

Also please view samples of CSV file:

Simple_products_example.csv

Variable_products_example.csv

Import: Step by Step Tutorial

To import products into WordPress navigate to Prices By User Role section under WooCommerce, tab “Import Products” and folow the steps:

Step 1. Source Selection

If uploading data stored locally, you should paste path to it (browse local folder and choose import file). Also you can enter the URL where it’s uploaded

Check “First Row is Header” option if the first row in your file contains columns names

Note: If you include a Header row into the file, the plugin will attempt to map columns to product fields automatically. If you don’t you will need to map all columns manually.

Step 2. CSV Field Separator (Delimiters)

Data in .csv file are detached by delimiters and on this step you should indicate what exactly CSV field separators are used in your case.

Preview data to be uploaded and confirm procedure pressing “Confirm & Run Import” button below.

Prices by User role import from .csv being completed, you will get import logs, showing what changes have been implemented for each updated product.

Update products notes:

• Existing simple product is detected by SKU. If you don’t include the SKU in the file, the new product will be added even if product with such name already exists.

• Existing variable product is detected by Parent SKU. If you don’t include the Parent SKU in the file new simple products will be added instead of updating variable product.

• The new attribute won’t be created if you import products with the attribute that already exists. New variations will be added to the existing attribute if they are present in the file.

• The image won’t be duplicated if the SKU and the image already exist and the option Skip Duplicate Images is checked.

Update prices for all roles

$prices = array(
    'group1' => 100
);

update_prices_by_roles($product_id, $prices);

Get all prices for product

get_product_prices($product_id);

Get user price for product

get_price_by_user_id($product_id, $user_id);

How to change "Savings" text?

To change the text you can by yourself using localization. Please read instructions how to translate contents here http://wplang.org/translate-theme-plugin/ . 

Or just use http://poedit.net/ to do this. In this case your steps should be the following:

1) download and install Poedit editor http://poedit.net/
2) run Poedit editor and open the language file with .po extension from /woocommerce-prices-by-user-role/languages
3) click on the string you wish to edit and type the text you'd like to appear instead http://www.screencast.com/t/pmxpPhgQRlfB 
4) save new files according to your WP localization https://wpcentral.io/internationalization/ 
5) go to ftp to the folder yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-prices-by-user-role/languages and insert here new .po and .mo files

How to add new user?

1. Go to Admin Panel > Users (yoursite.com/wp-admin/users.php)
2. Add New User
3. Regardless of that setting, you can manually create new users here.

• Username (required) - Enter the username of the new user here. This will also be used as the Login name of the new user.
• E-mail (required) - Enter a valid e-mail address of the new user here. The e-mail address must be unique for each user. If a published post or page is authored by this user, then when approved comments are made to that post or page, a notification e-mail is sent to this e-mail address.
• First Name - Enter the first name of the new user here.
• Last Name - Enter the last name of the new user in this text box (the display name defaults to first and last name).
• Website -: You may enter the new user’s website URL in this text box.
• Password (twice) - Enter a password for the new user twice here, once in each text box.

• Send Password? - Check the box to Send this password to the new user by email.
• Role - Select the desired Role for this User from the drop-down box. Default: Administration > Settings > General - New User Default Role
• Add User - Click this important button to save the new user’s information into WordPress’ database. If you don’t click this button, the user will not be added. A flash message at the top of the screen will advise you that the new user has been added.

Import Question: What will happen if I load simple product which already exists?

Simple product will be updated if SKU already exists (if the simple product already exists and SKU is mentioned in the file product data will be updated instead of creating a new product)

Import Question: What will happen if I load variable product which already exists?

Variable product will be updated if Parent SKU already exists (if the variable product already exists and Parent SKU is mentioned in the file product data will be updated instead of creating a new product)

Import Question: What will happen if I load images which already exist?

Duplication of images will be skipped if SKU and the image already exist

Import Question: Which data could be loaded by Import option?

List of Importable Attributes:

• post_title (Name)

• post_content (Description)

• post_excerpt (Short Description)

• post_status (Post Status — Publish, Draft, Trash, etc.)

• menu_order (Menu Order)

• comment_status (Comment/Review Status — Open, Closed)

• ping_status (Trackback/Pingback Status — Open, Closed)

• _regular_price (Regular Price)

• _sale_price (Sale Price)

• _prices_by_roles

• _tax_status (Tax Status)

• _tax_class (Tax Class)

• _visibility (Visibility)

• _featured (Featured)

• _weight (Weight)

• _length (Length)

• _width (Width)

• _height (Height)

• _sku (SKU)

• _downloadable (Downloadable)

• _virtual (Virtual)

• _attributes

• _variations

• _stock (Stock)

• _stock_status (Stock Status)

• _backorders (Backorders)

• _manage_stock (Manage Stock)

• product_cat (Categories, by Name or ID)

• product_tag (Tags, by Name or ID)

• product_shipping_class (Shipping Class, by Name or ID)

• Custom Fields

• Product Images (By URL or Local File Path)

• _button_text (Button Text, for External Products)

• _product_url (Product URL, for External Products)

• _file_paths (File Paths, for Downloadable Product)

• _download_expiry (Download Expiration, in Days)

• _download_limit (Download Limit, an integer)