Unit Price Modification Medusa Cart

[oblique sentinel]

Hey @burnt wolf what you want i think is custom line item prices. Where the default bheaviour is for the line item unit price to be derived from the variant price, you can create a custom api route and workflow, to add an item to a cart, overriding the default behaviour with your own logic.

Here is an official guide showcasing how to do this in the context of real time Precious metal pricing API: https://docs.medusajs.com/resources/examples/guides/custom-item-price

In your particular case, it is a matter of deciding inside your workflow, how you are going to access these json files and match them with the corresponding variant, to override the unit_price

[burnt wolf]

Id be happy to just "hardcode" a product to the cart, but it wont let me modify unit_price, for good reason im sure.

[oblique sentinel]

But you already have this vendor and auto site generation implemented with Medusa? I am trying to understand your ucrrent setup vs what you are trying to achieve

[burnt wolf]

Yes, the json file generates the storefront with items and prices.
I can then add items , to the cart.
I do that by using a generic product with the variant ID for all json items.
That product item is then modified to change reflect the json data, but Im only not abble to modify the unit price.

[oblique sentinel]

so in Medusa you only have 1 product entity which includes all of the objecs in the JSON file as variants? As i said, the default addToCartWorkflow computes the unit_price based on the variant price.

If this is not what you want, then a similar approach to that of the guide i shared i think will be enough

[burnt wolf]

Think it worked 😫

Thank you

[oblique sentinel]

glad to hear that, did you go for the custom workflow route>

[burnt wolf]

This MedusaJS is one complex beast lol

[oblique sentinel]

Looks good to me

complex, but also allows to do really complex stuff with ease as long as you know the framework. And even when you don't know something, the amazing community has your back 💪

[burnt wolf]

Yeah I think I have built alot of "custom" stuff, which I maybe didnt have to do!
Guess can close 😄

or suspend lol