How to Override Configurable Product Price with Simple Product Price in Magento

While dealing with configurable products in Magento, the price of associated simple products are completely omitted. Sometimes when working with complex products, you need to ignore the price difference set for associated simple products and rather want to override price of configurable product with simple ones. This task is a bit tricky and lead to custom code in Magento.

Here, I will share the code to Override Configurable Product Price with Simple Product Price in Magento

1. Put following code in config.xml for observer.

                
             
                
                    
                        magecomp/observer
                        simpleProductPrice
                    
                
             
      

2. Add following functions in Model/Observer.php.

public function simpleProductPrice(Varien_Event_Observer $observer) {
        $event   = $observer->getEvent();
        $product = $event->getProduct();
        $qty     = $event->getQty();
        $selectedAttributes = array();
        if ($product->getCustomOption('attributes')) {
            $selectedAttributes = unserialize($product->getCustomOption('attributes')->getValue());
        }
        if (sizeof($selectedAttributes)) return $this->getSimpleProductPrice($qty, $product);
    }

    public function getSimpleProductPrice($qty=null, $product)
    {

        $cfgId = $product->getId();
        $product->getTypeInstance(true)
            ->setStoreFilter($product->getStore(), $product);
        $attributes = $product->getTypeInstance(true)
            ->getConfigurableAttributes($product);
        $selectedAttributes = array();
        if ($product->getCustomOption('attributes')) {
            $selectedAttributes = unserialize($product->getCustomOption('attributes')->getValue());
        }
        
		$childProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type_configurable')->getProductByAttributes($selectedAttributes, $product);
		$id = $childProduct->getId();
		return Mage::getModel("catalog/product")->load($id)->getFinalPrice($qty);
    }

Hope this tutorial helped you to override configurable product prices with associated simple product prices. Let me know how you have used this functionality in your Magento and feel free to ask your questions through commenting, I’ll be glad to help you!