Hello all. I am new to MC and still reading through the manual, but am having a bit of trouble trying to find a needed feature.

I have a store that sells custom embroidered items, and depending on the number of letters or numbers the customer requests, the price needs to update to show a final total.

Example - I sell a plain shirt for $10.00.
Custom embroidering is an option the customer can choose, and using a variant, it adds $1.00 to the total price, but ONLY for the first three characters.
After the first three, there is a charge of .50 cent per char.

Say the customer buys a shirt with the name James embroidered on it.
The total cost would $12.00.
How do I go about having MC add this up?

Obviously, personalization will allow me to add a text box that allows the customer to enter the custom ebroidered request, but MC has no interaction in this area with the total price.

Is there a way to set up MC to see the added characters and add them to the final total?

Hi Loz...welcome to the forum!

I can't think of a way that currently could integrate with the personalization field for exact price markup. Maybe custom programming would be the answer.

You could have the variants be a drop down of # of characters with associated prices and then a personalization for text. This means you rely on the customer to count the characters and select the appropriate add-on cost.

My best suggestion is to use Variants AND Personalization. The customer chooses the number of characters from the drop down menu (with prices) and also fills in the Personalization box.