Wholesale and regular prices with Drupal Commerce

A client of mine wanted a shopping cart that serves her regular and wholesale customers. The trick is her wholesale prices are different per product, so need to be manually entered. Here's how I configured that in Drupal Commerce

Create Wholesale User role

  • Create a user role wholesale

Create your Product

  • Go to /admin/commerce/products/types or Store » Products » Product Types and create a type of product you need. in my case it is Essential Oil
  • For this product type click on manage fields
  • Add a new field of the type Price. I called my Wholesale Price with machine name field_wholesale_price
  • Configure the field as needed for your currency
  • Go to Manage Display for the same product type and make sure that Wholesale Price appears before or after Price field, don't hide either one of these fields

Create product display

  • If you haven't done so go to Content Types and create a content type that will hold the product display. Mine was Essential Oil Display
  • Under Manage Fields add a Product Reference field and select the appropriate product type; in my case it is Essential Oil

Pricing Rules

Now let's set some product pricing rules for the cart.

  • Go to /admin/commerce/config/product-pricing or Store » Configuration » Product Pricing Rules
  • Add a new pricing rule and call it Wholesale
  • Under Conditions add a new condition User has role and select wholesale; Save
    This says the the rule will only apply to users with the wholesalerole.
  • Add another condtion Data value is empty and select commerce-line-item:line-item-id; check off Negate and Save
    We are checking that a line item in our cart is not emtpy; evaluation will stop here if cart is empty.
  • Add condition Entity has field the entity is commerce-line-item and field value is commerce_product
    We are checking that the entity in the cart is a commerce_product to assertain that we are working with expected data.
  • Add another Data value is empty condition and select commerce-line-item:commerce-product as a selector; checkoff Negate and Save.
    This checks that commerce_product is not an empty object. Note if we don't do these checks the fields for the commerce_product will not appear in subsequent conditions. This is the enforcement of graceful failure rules by the Rules module.
  • Add condition Entity has field and select commerce-line-item:commerce-product as an entity and set field as field_wholesale_price; Save
    This checks that we have a wholesale field
  • Set the last conditon Data value is empty and set commerce-line-item:commerce-product:field-wholesale-price as data to check; check off Negate and Save
    This checks that our wholesale price field has a value, else the ruleset fails to apply.
  • Add new Action and select Set the unit price to a specific amount. Data selector is commerce_line_item; set amount to data selector and set commerce-line-item:commerce-product:field-wholesale-price:amount; leave Price Component Type as Base price and Price Rounding as you see fit; Save

Configuring proper price display per role

I took the path of least resistance and hid the non-applicable price via CSS.

  • Configure the product settings to display both prices.
  • Update your theme to add a class to the <body> based on user's role (snippet for it below).
  • Then in CSS I do something as follows 
    
.field-name-field-wholesale-price { display: none; }
.role-wholesale .field-name-field-wholesale-price { display: block; }
.field-name-commerce-price { display: block; }
.role-wholesale .field-name-commerce-price { display: none; }