Different Prices Based On Role

I agree. I would be REALLY HAPPY to see this feature.
This would make the e-commerce side of drupal as useful as most other CMS systems shop systems.

This can be done now, but only at the global level.

see administer > store > settings > payment > adjectment.

Price based on role was on of the out of the box features that I really liked about VirtueMart/mambo-phpshop.

I think the most common complex pricing scheme is retail/wholesale with quantity breaks.
For example:
Widget A:
Qty 1: Retail $5 Wholesale: $4
Qty > 10: Retail $4.50 Wholesale: $3.25
Qty > 100: Retail: N/A Wholesale: $3.00

There may be other pricing schemes where you tiered-levels of customers, but I think that is just an extension of the above.

Things to think about for implementing this:

• Do you REQUIRE a separate set of prices for each role?
  Probably not, but how do you identify which price gets precedence? A user will likely be both a 'wholesale customer' and an 'authenticated user'.
• If a wholesale price does not exist does that mean the retail price applies?
• The tax module would have to modified to deal with different roles. Wholesale customers are generally tax exempt (at least in the US).
• Specials or sales have to be defined for each price level.
• In general, business 2 business sites need to gather different data: company name, tax id, purchase order#, etc

What else?

This is related, but not the same as this issue:
http://drupal.org/node/62097

This code provides this functionality:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/recidive/

Here is a module tentatively called role_pricing.
It adds the ability to supply a role based discount for each product and allows for multple roles to have a discount.
It is written for 4.7 because I am going to deploy it on a 4.7 site.

Originally, I wanted to allow prices instead of discounts (i.e. deltas), but I could not figure out how to do it.

Do NOT use this on a real site! It is still in the very early days.

The version posted has the function role_pricing_view commented out. You need to remove the comments for the module to work.

fixing component

Guys,

on v3, there is a module called role_discount.

regards,

massa