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we had a site update this morning. It gave some unexpected problems at first with the model upload, but we fixed those later this day. We released the following feature:

Markup per Material
As Bart already announced in his newsletter, we extended the new markup and material editor page to be able to set markups per material now. You can also set the markup per material on the normal product details page, by selecting the material and entering the markup.


Besides that we had several bugfixes:

- Changing the countries of the billing address on the checkout page did not work.

- The 3D viewer popup did not work anymore for model owners due to the new description editor of the last release.

- There were some rounding issues for prices incl VAT in the gallery. They sometimes didn't match the correct price on the product details page.

- The left column on the markup and material page was not scrollable, which wasn't very userfriendly, so we made them scrollable.]]> barrys 2011-01-18T20:05:53-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22778&th=4369#msg_22778 ]]> dizingof 2011-01-18T20:23:11-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22783&th=4369#msg_22783

Cheers,

Stijn

]]> virtox 2011-01-18T20:36:04-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22802&th=4369#msg_22802 barrys wrote on Tue, 18 January 2011 20:05
Markup per Material
As Bart already announced in his newsletter, we extended the new markup and material editor page to be able to set markups per material now. You can also set the markup per material on the normal product details page, by selecting the material and entering the markup.

Ehh, can we get a checkbox too that says "same markup for all materials" or something in the product details page, because it's a bit of work to manually have to type in a markup for every material.
And if Shapeways suddenly adds a new material, what markup will that have then? I hope it doesn't default new materials to 0...
In the product details page it seems I have to hit save for every markup per material I want to change, too.
Also, I can't easily make use of the "To all" feature in the markup inventory page when I have WSF disabled.
Perhaps a textbox for "minimum markup for all materials for this item" which automatically brings all markups for the item to at least that amount? That could be a friendly solution for setting the markup across all materials.]]> Kaetemi 2011-01-19T08:33:17-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22811&th=4369#msg_22811 Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T12:13:07-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22813&th=4369#msg_22813 Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T12:49:13-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22814&th=4369#msg_22814 Michiel Cornelissen wrote on Wed, 19 January 2011 12:49
I was able to do the mark-up per material on the product page (nice!), but not on the inventory page with the overview. Is that intentional?


No, it should definately work on the inventory page. What was exactly the problem?
- did it not save?
- couldn't you edit the markup?]]> barrys 2011-01-19T12:54:16-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22815&th=4369#msg_22815 Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T13:13:13-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22816&th=4369#msg_22816 ]]> virtox 2011-01-19T13:14:30-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22817&th=4369#msg_22817 It needs to be pressed for the markup to be saved.]]> barrys 2011-01-19T13:16:20-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22819&th=4369#msg_22819 Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T14:06:59-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22825&th=4369#msg_22825 ]]> gibell 2011-01-19T15:01:21-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22826&th=4369#msg_22826

]]> Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T15:04:10-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22827&th=4369#msg_22827 Michiel Cornelissen wrote on Wed, 19 January 2011 15:04
I think there's a 'use for all' button already. And I'm really happy with the mark-up per materials!



Yup, but only in the full inventory page, not in the item detail page. And it doesn't work when WSF is disabled.
Setting all the markups in the item detail page is not fun.
I'd just like a textbox where I can type in the minimum markup for all materials for an item (and that would also serve as the default markup when new materials are added), that would save a bit of work. ]]> Kaetemi 2011-01-19T15:06:25-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22830&th=4369#msg_22830
Also is it possible to enlarge (based on window size) the inventory layout for big screens like Michiel noted?

Cheers,

Stijn]]> virtox 2011-01-19T15:48:37-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22835&th=4369#msg_22835
Oh and to be able to set the sale price instead of the mark-up. I think a lot of people wanted individual mark-ups so that they were all priced the same, and days like today I don't want to do math ]]> Youknowwho4eva 2011-01-19T18:27:26-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22837&th=4369#msg_22837 price in dollars, ex VAT. If I understand correctly, most territories outside of the Netherlands won't ever pay the VAT, right?
So, it would save me a lot of math if I would see that (price in dollar ex VAT) as a default in the inventory matrix. Makes sense?
]]> Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-19T19:53:29-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22839&th=4369#msg_22839 Magic 2011-01-19T20:42:20-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22845&th=4369#msg_22845 stop4stuff 2011-01-19T22:11:50-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22846&th=4369#msg_22846 Michiel Cornelissen wrote on Wed, 19 January 2011 19:53
Ok, let me chip in with a wish from my side as well. For some reason, maybe because I'm in the Netherlands, I see the price inc VAT in the inventory matrix. However, I've decided I will tune my prices to the most stable price seen by the largest group of people, which I believe will the price in dollars, ex VAT. If I understand correctly, most territories outside of the Netherlands won't ever pay the VAT, right?
So, it would save me a lot of math if I would see that (price in dollar ex VAT) as a default in the inventory matrix. Makes sense?



I just checked that - what you can do is clear all cookies then choose USA in the country field/flag while you are logged in to shapeways.

now look at the price markup details on any of your design page - you'll see the $ value , your markup and the total price excluding any vat.





]]> dizingof 2011-01-19T22:42:49-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22847&th=4369#msg_22847
]]> 2011-01-19T23:04:27-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22856&th=4369#msg_22856 Michiel Cornelissen 2011-01-20T07:09:34-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22939&th=4369#msg_22939
Here's why;
Upload model... fine
Set materials... fine
Set markup... not fine, on the model page, you now have to set each and every material markup.
Going to the inventory page to set the markup for the model means waiting for the page to load all models, scrolling through to find the model, then setting the markup... saving changes take you back to your shop edit page.

If anyone has not set the markup per material and just set the one markup thinking the markup is set across the board... they're thinking wrongly and possibly losing out.]]> stop4stuff 2011-01-23T17:49:55-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22965&th=4369#msg_22965
Thanks!

Bart]]> bartv 2011-01-24T13:01:36-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22967&th=4369#msg_22967
It should be pretty easy to code for.. if you enter say 20% in the markup box, detect the % and then do the calcs.]]> stonysmith 2011-01-24T16:44:04-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22972&th=4369#msg_22972 stonysmith wrote on Mon, 24 January 2011 16:44
I know it's been mentioned before, but this is a perfect example of why a percentage based markup would be a wonderful thing.. enter a single % and apply it to all materials.. then go thru material by material if you wish and tweak the prices.

It should be pretty easy to code for.. if you enter say 20% in the markup box, detect the % and then do the calcs.


+1 to adding a % markup (for all or just selected materials)

]]> stop4stuff 2011-01-24T18:03:38-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=22982&th=4369#msg_22982 fixed sale price.]]> trompevenlo 2011-01-24T20:52:09-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=23053&th=4369#msg_23053 (Give the developers some 24" screens please!)

Two minute with firebug I got this :


(censored )

I just removed the weird fixed pixel (wtf?) size constraint on the matrix.

Please add an option to filter out non-public models.

I can only move products up one row at a time?
Please add buttons for top and eight rows up etc.

Please make the save button so, it does not leave the page.


And please take the row principle from the material matrix, make it vertical and implement that on the product page.
Hidden mark-ups on the product page leads to errors, we might miss an entry.


Cheers,

Stijn]]> virtox 2011-01-26T16:31:30-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=23065&th=4369#msg_23065
There's a number of other suggestions here that I want to implement, and I really like the ideas for percentage markups and fixed sales prices... ]]> 2011-01-26T20:03:20-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=23127&th=4369#msg_23127
Thanks for the feedback on the CSS. The first thing I'll be able to implement is to increase the fixed width of the material matrix to about 960px. We tried to set it as a percentage but that interfered with some other things, so for now I'll make this partial fix first.

I think it will take a couple of iterations to get this page working as smoothly as I'd like, so rest assured more changes are coming!

-Ben]]> 2011-01-27T22:56:28-00:00