How can I show the base price on the collection page?

If your products in Shopify have a very low base price, or even are priced at zero, and the main part of the price is calculated by add-ons in the Live Product Options app, then you may apply the below solution to show the actual base price on your store.

Collection pages

The app does not run the price calculation on collection pages, this would require a lot of resources and slow down the page loading time.

Google channel sync

Sales channels are synced based on the product price in Shopify, the price of the app is not taken into account.

Solution

You can keep your product options configurations product price calculations unchanged, but at the same time you update the product prices in Shopify to match the initial price when the product is viewed on the Product page (so the base price + options price).

Example:

Base price:  100$
Options: 
 - Size:  20$ / 50$ / 100$
 - Color: 5$ /  10$

Price displayed on the product page:  125$

You then update the base price of the product in Shopify to the initial price on the page:

Next, enable the setting described below:

Deduct variant price from options price

In the App > Settings > Theme settings > Deduct variant price from price total

How it works:

Product variant price (base price) = 100.00$
Options price (all add-ons combined) = 150.00$
// When setting is disabled
Total = 100 (base price) + 150 (options price) = 250$
// When setting is enabled
Total = 100 (base price) + (150(options price) - 100(base price)) = 150$

With the setting enabled, only the difference between the base price and the total options price is added to the base price.

Note: this setting applies to all product configurations, only enable if the above calculation is desired.

Negative prices

If your base price in Shopify is set higher to what your product options calculate the total price to be, the app will not lower the base price automatically. If you want to let the app calculate negative price changes, you can reach out to our support team and we can enable this calculation for you.