How do I create multiple pricing options for an item?

Since the earliest days of DonorPoint, you’ve been able to create Multiple-Price Options, price models that prompt the user for a selection - member/non-member pricing, giving levels or selecting an event package from multiple options. All these had in common some prompt to the constituent and a price per option. But setting up and maintaining multiple price models was a pain. You had to create a custom dropdown. Once there were levels you could not edit the dropdown names. And the whole model was limited to fixed amounts. So given input from multiple customers, and our own fundraising experience, we retooled the multiple pricing model.

Price levels are simply specified by name and price - no need to create a custom dropdown property. The naming and prompt on the form are clearly visible and easily editable. Variable price levels, free, round up models, etc. can be added as options. The control on the form can be a dropdown or radio buttons. Radio buttons can be arranged horizontally or vertically. Let’s take a look at how it works. Let’s say we want a donation item with multiple defined levels, and “Other”:

image.png

We create this as a new Price in the Item and Pages editor - either the popup or the full-page editor, by hitting the ‘+’ button next to the price selector for the item:

The basic options for a Multiple Pricing Option are:

  • Label - what the constituent will see on forms where the price of the item is listed
  • Internal name - what you will see in the price selector for items
  • Prompt text - text shown above the options
  • Price Levels - we’ll see that in about a paragraph below
  • Select Type - either Dropdown Menu or Radio Buttons

Hit Create New Price Level as scene below to get started adding a new price:

Then we can create Price Levels by name and amount and hitting create:

Price levels can have a name or not - if the name is given it will be part of the option presented to the constituent. But you can just select prices if there is no additional meaning to them. You can also create new fixed prices, free prices and variable prices for the levels by hitting the + sign next to edit pencil in the picture above to choose a different price level like below:

So our complete set of prices for this donation item are:

Price levels can be edited, reordered or removed using the standard icons next to their entry on the list of price levels. Changing the Select Type to dropdown does what you think it does. Don’t forget to hit create to complete your multiple pricing levels and then save after completion. Your options will look like below to the donor: