Your Lightspeed eCom (E-Series) store allows adding price per unit values to products you sell online. This way, you can let your customers know how much one unit (gram, liter, etc.) of your product costs and how many units come in a product. For example, if you’re required to do so by the law of your country.

This information will be displayed on the product page:

Price per unit setup in eCom includes three steps:

1. Enabling Price per unit in your online store.
2. Naming Price per unit fields.
3. Specifying Price per unit values for products and/or product variants.

Enabling Price per unit in eCom

First of all, you need to enable the item price fields in your online store.

To enable Price per unit:

1. In Retail POS, navigate to Online > Settings.

2. In the General tab, click Cart & Checkout.

   

3. Enable the Show price per unit toggle:

   

4. Save the changes.

That’s it! Price per unit is enabled in your online store.

Now you can name Price per unit fields according to your needs.

Naming Price per unit fields in eCom

By default, Price per unit fields in your online store are called "Units in product" and "Price per unit".

You can set any other names you need. If you sell products in bottles, you can name your fields “Liters in the bottle” and “Price per liter.'' In case you're selling several items in one pack, you can have "Items in pack" and "Price per one item".

Price per unit fields are, in fact, product attributes, so you can assign different Price per unit names to different product types if you need. You can also leave these fields with their default titles for some product types.

To rename Price per unit fields:

1. In Retail POS, navigate to Online > Overview > Go to eCom (E-Series).
2. In your eCom admin panel, go to Settings > Product Types.
3. From the list on the left, select your product type (by default, it’s “General”).
4. Enter the name you want to use into the Units in product field (e.g., “Liters in the bottle”).

5. Enter the name you want to use into the Price per unit field (e.g., “Price per liter”):

   

6. Click Save.

That’s it! You have set the titles that will be displayed in your online storefront for the Units in product and Price per unit fields.

Now you can specify Price per unit values for your products and/or product variants.

Specifying Price per unit values for products in eCom

After you enable Price per unit in your online store and name Price per unit fields, you can specify the Price per unit and Units in product values for your products.

To specify Price per unit values for a product:

1. In Retail POS, navigate to Online > Overview > Go to eCom (E-Series).
2. From your eCom admin panel, go to Catalog > Products.
3. Choose a product or create a new one.
4. Go to the Attributes tab.
5. In the Units in product attribute field, enter the number of units your product has.
6. In the Price per unit attribute field, enter the product's price per unit.
7. Save the changes.

That’s it! Price per unit information will now be displayed for customers on the product details page in your online store.

If your company address is German and a customer from Germany visits your eCom storefront, Price per unit fields will also be displayed on the product grid.

By default, Price per unit values for product variants mirror the values that you set for the base product. So if you set Price per unit values for your product, the same values are applied to all its variants. You can set individual Price per unit values for your variants if you need.

Specifying Price per unit values for product variants in eCom

You can set separate Price per unit values for each of the variants your product has. Otherwise, they'll inherit these values from the base product.

If your product does not have variants, or you want to keep all your product variant Price per unit values identical, you only need to add the values for the product itself.

After you add Price per unit values for individual product variants, customers will see values for the default product variant when viewing your storefront. When they select a specific variant on the product details page, the values will be adjusted. If your product does not have a default product variant, Price per unit values for the base product are displayed at first.

To specify Price per unit values for a product variant:

1. In Retail POS, navigate to Online > Overview > Go to eCom (E-Series).
2. From your eCom admin panel, go to Catalog > Products.
3. Open the product for editing and go to the Options > Variations tab.
4. Find the variant you want to add Price per unit values for, then click the pencil icon next to it.
5. Click on the arrow next to the Price field.
6. In the first field of the Price per unit block, specify how many units (grams, liters, etc.) your product variant contains.
7. In the second field of the Price per unit block, specify how much one unit (gram, liter, etc.) of your product variant costs.
8. Click OK, then Save.

That’s it! You’ve added Price per unit values for an individual product variant.

Now, when a customer selects this variant on the product page, they will see the Price per unit information for it.