Pricing in the Panel
Pricing is a tab inside the GUI section, because a price is built from the same choices the panel collects.
The formula it works to is straightforward:
base price, plus the amounts on the options chosen, plus any formulas, plus any parts the configuration includes, multiplied by a set multiplier if you have one.
You turn it on in the Pricing tab and set the base price there. The amounts attached to individual options are set on the options themselves, back in the Controls tab, since that is where those options live.
To show the total to your shopper, add a Price element in the Layout tab. It can show an itemised breakdown, which is worth doing.
Read this properly before you sell
Pricing is the part of 3D Bits where a mistake costs real money, and it has its own section covering how to set it up, how a configured price becomes a real Shopify charge, and what to check before going live.
Pricing is the place to go, and Setting up pricing is the walkthrough.
Your product's own price, and the base price
Under the base price the tab draws a short table. It is the most useful thing on the page, and it is worth learning to read:
| Row | What it means |
|---|---|
| The product's own price | What the Shopify product the configurator sits on costs. |
| Base price | What you typed above. |
| Products already in the base price | Any linked parts you marked as already covered by the base price - Bundled parts charging only, since Product lines refuses them. |
| The shopper sees | The total for the cheapest configuration. |
| The cheapest cart can collect | The least the cart could actually charge for it. |
With Product lines charging, Shopify charges your product at its own price, so the base price is the product's price: the first two rows should be the same. When the base price is below the last row, the cheapest configuration could not be added to a cart at all, and the tab says so in red.
Publishing refuses while no variant of the product costs the base price, and names the product. The project page can set the product's price to the base price for you, or you can change the base price here to the product's price. Variants at other prices still publish, with a warning naming what a shopper choosing each one pays.
What sits in this tab
Formulas price continuous choices, such as a width slider, using an expression over the shopper's values. This is what makes anything sold by size, length or area chargeable. Each formula can carry its own condition, so it applies only when it should.
Quantity control nominates one of your controls as a multiplier for the whole configured price - the way you price by area or by running metre.
A quantity control multiplies the price of one configured set. It does not change how many you ship. If you want a shopper to buy six of what they configured, add a Quantity element in the Layout tab instead.
Disable options that cannot currently be sold checks the real products behind your priced options and parts when the page loads and while the shopper configures. When something is out of stock it moves the shopper to the nearest configuration you can sell and says what changed, and it greys out any choice nothing can make sellable - or, where checkout still charges the price you published, whose price no longer matches it. It never changes what anyone is charged. You can write the message a shopper sees. See Linked products.
Save the configuration on the order writes the shopper's choices onto the order as line item properties, so your team can read what to make.
How this will charge is a summary of the way the current setup will actually collect money. It is the quickest way to confirm you have set things up the way you intended before publishing.
The neighbouring tabs
Parts is where the things the product is made of live - the pieces you ship and charge for, and the ones you only need on the works order. Parts used to sit in this tab and now have their own.
Settings holds two things about how a configuration is remembered: the Order snapshot, an image of the configured scene attached to the order, and the shareable link, which keeps the shopper's selections in the page URL so a link restores them.
PDF Reports turns a configuration into a document, for the shopper or for the workshop.