Auto Calculate Domain Pricing For Year 2-10 Based on 1st Year

[Rangka Kacang]

Hello.

As mentioned in the title, I'd like to know is it possible to do this task automatically or is the feature missing? For your information, I currently have 143 domains listed but all of them only have first year pricing. I'd like to generate prices for year 2 to 10 automatically for each domain extensions with a single click or something (current year multiply first year), so I can offer Year 1-10 for sale instead of just year 1 or manually multiply them 1 by 1, that's tedious.

Another question is, is there a limit on the numbers of domain that can be listed? Because I'm unable to add anymore extensions after I've listed out 143 domains for sale so far. The next domain didn't get save.

Thank you.

[brian!]

1 hour ago, Rangka Kacang said:

As mentioned in the title, I'd like to know is it possible to do this task automatically or is the feature missing? 

it's somewhere in the middle - it's an existing feature that is undocumented (AFAIK - other than a brief mention in the v7.5 release notes), and has been badly developed in a number of ways.

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• Bulk TLD Pricing Management - New bulk management features have been added to make working with large numbers of extensions and TLDs easier. Found in the 'Setup > Products/Services > Domain Pricing page, a new Bulk Management panel allows you to make changes to domain pricing, grace period and redemption period settings for groups of TLDs at a time.

1 hour ago, Rangka Kacang said:

For your information, I currently have 143 domains listed but all of them only have first year pricing.

i've got a horrible feeling that you should have added the 2-10 year pricing at the time - either manually or using the built-in feature.... trying to add them now, at this stage, might not be simple.

1 hour ago, Rangka Kacang said:

I'd like to generate prices for year 2 to 10 automatically for each domain extensions with a single click or something (current year multiply first year), so I can offer Year 1-10 for sale instead of just year 1 or manually multiply them 1 by 1, that's tedious.

as described previously, there is a new bulk management feature in the Domain Pricing page - with that, you can set a 1-year price in the default currency, tick the 2-10 year checkbox and it will calculate those years as multiples of the 1-year price... it adds pricing for that TLD for all enabled currencies (whether they were previously enabled in that TLD or not).

however, what it seemingly doesn't do is take an existing 1-year price for that TLD and multiple it for the other years - you have to enter the price (reg/renew and/or transfer) again in that bulk management panel, then tick the checkbox next to the TLD(s) that you want to change and then save changes... now, if you have multiple TLDs that are priced the same, this will save you some time... but if your TLD pricing is varied (which is highly likely), then this feature is next to useless - because you'll either end up having to enter the pricing again via the bulk management, or finding an alternate way to change multi-year pricing.

I can't think of an alternate addon that would do this - the Bulk Pricing Updater wouldn't do it as that's for existing clients prices (and it's bugged anyway, so I wouldn't use it); there is at least one addon in Marketplace that recalculates prices daily, but I think the prices have to exist in the first place (e.g it wouldn't add multi-year pricing if it were missing) - but you could check that with the developer as I might be wrong; there was a jQuery hook, for a previous version long-ago, that added a multi-year recalculate button in the domain pricing popup window and I think that worked well on v5, but with either v6 or v7, it fails.

the last resort might be multiple SQL queries (because all this really is are updates to the tblpricing database table), or a PHP script that does it for you in bulk.

1 hour ago, Rangka Kacang said:

Another question is, is there a limit on the numbers of domain that can be listed? Because I'm unable to add anymore extensions after I've listed out 143 domains for sale so far. The next domain didn't get save.

that's a known issue that has existed for at least the last three years - it's a PHP setting that you will need to increase (basically your domain pricing form submission is too large with your current settings) - the thread below should help...

 

[Rangka Kacang]

Thank you and I really appreciate the detailed explanations. I solved this problem already and I feel grateful, excellent job. I wish you a nice day ahead!!!