Use pricing from simple child products

If you use configurable products and have different pricing for each option, then you might want to set prices on the Simple products associated with your configurables.

By default, Magento will use the price you set on the configurable product, for all pricing: normal, special price, tier price etc. If you want to set different prices for more expensive product options, you have to go to the "Associated Products" tab of the configurable product, and set extra pricing for the options, that will get added to the configurable price - see more details in the Magento documentation.

Supported extensions

To use this feature, your store needs to have one of the following extensions:

1. SCP

2. Simple Product Pricing

Step-by-step guide

The default Magento setup described above may prove tedious if you have many different prices. Instead, you can choose to disregard the price of the configurable product, and use "price" and "special price" from the simple children.

1. You need to install one of these two extensions:
   1. SCP http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/simple-configurable-products.html

   2. Simple Product Pricing http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/simple-product-pricing.html
      
      

      Installing these extensions will affect your live site - all prices for configurable products in catalog and checkout will be changed to use prices set on the simple children only!

      
      
      

2. All configurable pricing in the website and shopping feed will now be meaningless; you need to set price (and special price if needed) on each simple product
3. You don't need to configure anything else; just re-generate the feed and the new pricing will be in place
   1. simple children will have their own separate prices
   2. if you include the configurable in the feed, it will have the minimum price from its children, but it's own special price