title: Shopify Wholesale Pricing Using Compare At Price Field
body: <p>We have a merchant requiring wholesale pricing on a per product basis. The built in Shopify promotion engine can obviously handle a store wide percentage discount for a specific customer group however this merchant has a specific requirement to set a wholesale price on a per product / variant basis (ideally with no promotion code requirement). We have looked at all of these <a href="http://support.shopify.com/customer/portal/articles/75449-can-i-offer-wholesale-" rel="nofollow">suggestions</a> but none of them seem like great solutions.</p>
  
  <p>Our question is, is it possible to do something along the following lines:</p>
  
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  <li>Set the "Compare At Price" field to the wholesale price (we understand this is not its intended purpose but this is the only other available field)</li>
  <li>Edit any templates to not use the "Compare at Field" for its original intended purpose (some themes do not display this field if it is less than the selling price in any case).</li>
  <li>If the customer is part of the wholesale customer group then in the "Cart" template, modify the price the customer actually pays to be the "Compare At Price" rather than the normal "Selling Price". Or in the product template itself when the customer clicks on "Add to Cart" that a similar check like is done with the relevant price used (based on their customer group).</li>
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  <p>In other words is it possible to alter the price in liquid to something other than what is stored for a particular variant in the database? Or are there any other suggestions on how to solve this wholesale problem without creating duplicate items or duplicate stores?</p>