Variable pricing for quoted services with Formidable Forms?

By: James Dewey | Asked: 02/23/2024
ForumsCategory: General questionsVariable pricing for quoted services with Formidable Forms?
James Dewey asked 9 months ago
We're thinking about using FF for our translation services website. Something like this:

-The customer will select up to three potential vendors (translators) from their search/filter results and click "Get my quote(s)"
-The vendors are notified and submit a form, in turn, for how much they will charge for the translation
-The customer can log back in, select which translator they want, and process the payment

So for example, let's say I (a customer) need a file translated from English to Spanish. Michael, Jim and Pam all appear to meet my qualifications, so I pick all three. Michael says he can do it for $212, Jim $300, Pam $350. I check back in the next day, am presented with my three options. Michael's my man, so I pick him, go through some sort of checkout process and am charged the correct $212.

I think all of this is generally possible with Formidable Forms, but the part in bold is the part I'm wondering about: How does the website know to charge $212? -- I've worked with plenty of online shopping carts before, but those all involved physical products. This is not SKU-based and the pricing will change case-to-case. I do not want somebody to have to log into the admin dashboard and manually create invoices -- this should be done automatically whenever Michael submits his form with the $212 quote. I don't necessarily need to be told exactly how to do this, but I just want to know if it's possible within the confines of Formidable Forms.

Thanks a lot!
1 Answers
Victor Font answered 9 months ago
I would create a vendor form and store the data in a look up table. You may not be using SKUs. but in this case the vendor and rate is the product. Think of the lookup table in the context of inventory. Once a client selects a vendor, you can use the lookup table rate to populate the invoice and charge the client accordingly.

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