How to Display Price Difference Between Options Using Additional Price Codes

Content

Overview
Supported widgets
How to set up price difference display
Using additional price codes alongside price code patterns
Troubleshooting

Overview

The price difference display feature lets you show the price impact of each option directly in the configurator, so end users can see exactly how their choices affect the total price in real time.

The price difference is always shown relative to the currently selected option. If a user has Without arms selected, switching to With arms shows +$100. If they switch back, Without arms shows –$100. The display updates dynamically as the user makes selections, so customers are never surprised by a change in the total.

Price difference display in the configurator — the price adjusts relative to the selected option

Example use cases:

Upgrades and add-ons — a chair with or without armrests, a desk with or without a cable management tray
Express shipping — offer standard vs. express delivery, with the surcharge shown immediately on the option (e.g. +$100 for express)
Material or finish upgrades — standard fabric vs. premium leather, where the premium option shows its upcharge directly on the swatch or button
Service add-ons — extended warranty, white-glove installation, or custom engraving shown as a clear price addition

To enable this display, you must use additional price codes assigned to each option value. Price code patterns alone are not sufficient — see Using additional price codes alongside price code patterns for details.

Supported widgets

Note: Support for some unsupported widgets is planned for a future release.

Widget	Supported
Thumbnail (large and small)	✅ Yes
Filter (large and small)	✅ Yes
Multichoice	✅ Yes
Number button	✅ Yes
Radio plain text	✅ Yes
Radio list box	✅ Yes
Radio with thumbnails	✅ Yes
Slider	❌ No
Color picker	❌ No
Number scale	❌ No
Input	❌ No
Upload texture images	❌ No
Text engraved	❌ No
Print on demand	❌ No
Message	❌ No

How to set up price difference display

Prerequisites

Before assigning additional price codes to your options, make sure the codes exist in Market Cost Prices under Pricing. See Guide to Setting Up Pricing in Mimeeq's System for details on how to create and import codes.

For example, to show the price difference for a chair's arm options, you might have the following codes in your MCP:

Code	RRP
CHAIR-ARMS	$100
CHAIR-NO-ARMS	$0

Note: You can use the same codes already set up as price codes in the Additional price code field — you don't need to create separate codes. This is useful when you want to reuse existing codes purely for price difference display without changing how the total price is calculated.

Additional Price Codes set up in Market Cost Prices under Pricing

Step 1: Assign additional price codes to options

Go to Option Sets and open the relevant option set.
Find the option whose values you want to assign codes to.
In the Additional price code column, assign the relevant MCP code to each option value.

For the arms example, this would look like:

Option value	Additional price code
With arms	CHAIR-ARMS
Without arms	CHAIR-NO-ARMS

Note: If an option value has no additional price code assigned, Mimeeq automatically treats its price as zero when calculating the difference.

Additional price codes assigned to each option value, with Show Price Difference set to Yes

Open the product configuration.
Find the widget for the option you set up.
Enable the Price difference display setting on the widget.

Once enabled, the configurator will show the price difference next to each option value based on what is currently selected.

Price difference display across multiple option types

Using additional price codes alongside price code patterns

If you already have prices set up using price code patterns (e.g. {SeatSlider#priceCode}), you can still use additional price codes purely to drive the price difference display — without affecting the total price.

When both are in use, a toggle controls whether the additional price codes are also added to the total:

Toggle	Behaviour
On	Additional price codes contribute to both the price difference display and the total price
Off	Additional price codes are used only for the price difference display and do not affect the total

This is useful when your pricing is fully handled by price code patterns and you want to add option-level price transparency without double-counting.

⚠️ Important: If you enable price difference display on a widget but the options only have price code patterns — and no additional price codes assigned — nothing will be displayed. The price difference feature compares additional price codes only.

The Include Additional Price Codes in Total Price toggle in the product's Pricing/Codes tab

Troubleshooting

Price difference is not displaying

Check that the option values have additional price codes assigned in Option Sets. Price code patterns alone will not trigger the display.
Verify the codes exist in Market Cost Prices under Pricing.
Confirm the Price difference display setting is enabled on the widget.
Check that the widget type is supported — see the Supported widgets table.

Price difference shows $0 for one of the options

This may be expected behaviour if that option value intentionally has no price difference. However, if this is unexpected, check that an additional price code has been assigned to that option value in the option set.

Price difference is affecting the total price unexpectedly

If you are using additional price codes alongside price code patterns and do not want them added to the total, make sure the Add additional price codes to total toggle is turned off. See Using additional price codes alongside price code patterns.

Updated on: 09/06/2026

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