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Shopping Cart Operations => Support => Topic started by: cookie on January 11, 2014, 05:56:53 PM

Title: How does "Discount" work ?
Post by: cookie on January 11, 2014, 05:56:53 PM

Hi,

Anyone helping me understand how does "Discount" work !??!

Is it a fix amount only or could be also applied as % ?
What about products with options? Does a discount apply to final price (say I have a starting price of zero and final price is given by options and options combinations only or ?!?!

THX

PS: Yes, I read the docu .. it does not clarify the issue

Title: Re: How does "Discount" work ?
Post by: abantecart on January 11, 2014, 09:21:53 PM

Discount is applied on product subtotal including option price

If you use coupons you can apply % on the transaction.

Not sure if you looked at below manuals:
http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/38-admin-user-manual/sales-menu/coupons
http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/31-admin-user-manual/catalog-menu/products#Promotions%20Tab

Title: Re: How does "Discount" work ?
Post by: eCommerce Core on January 11, 2014, 09:50:42 PM

For product discount you can set up discount based on quantity selected. You need to set up minimum qtty for discount to apply and product price in this case. There is no % discount here.

Also you can set up special price discount on product in general, without connection to quantity. You set up final price here. Not %

Title: Re: How does "Discount" work ?
Post by: llegrand on January 11, 2014, 10:22:14 PM

Cookie,
Here's an abantecart site (not mine) that has discounts set up - this is a link to one of the items - if you change the quantity order you will see how the pricing changes, and carries over to the order page.
http://wholehealthbeautystore.com/natural_body_defense-anti_inflammatory (http://wholehealthbeautystore.com/natural_body_defense-anti_inflammatory)

Lee

Title: Re: How does "Discount" work ?
Post by: cookie on January 12, 2014, 10:27:26 AM

Thank you all for your feedback!

I did not look at coupons for this particular issue but yes, I've read the other documentation and it said nothing about options and products with options.

Conclusion: it is actually NOT possible to apply a discount on a product build out of priced options only, even for the simple reason that one cannot know the final price in advance as it depends on the kind and amount of options chosen by the customer. And as long as I do not know the final product price it's not possible to decide in advance about a certain fix amount to be applied as a discount.

It remains the workaround with the coupons which in certain situations only could be a solution.