oh, and to answer your second question. Yes, my clients are making good use of the discount system ... even though they complain ... they aaalways complain! Kidding :)
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:27:09 UTC-4, Marconius Cuthemustard wrote: > > The discounts system does work, but under some circumstances it is not > very intuitive. > > First thing, what do you mean by "coupon field is inactive?" For a > discount to be applied to anything, this means that the user must enter a > Discount/coupon code at checkout. Otherwise no discount will be applied. > > The second tricky thing is that automatic discounts are only applied > automatically (i.e the discount code field is filled in automatically in > the default checkout form template) if the discount is for all items in > your store. The other thing an automatic discount does, regardless of what > products it applies to, is to display a message on all the pages of the > discounted products saying something like: "you can get a discount on this > product if you enter the code 'discount-code' at checkout'. This is a > decent behaviour, I guess. > > The third thing about discounts is that, by default (as far as I know) the > customer can apply only one discount at a time via the discount code field > at checkout > > Oh and you can't really have more than one automatic discount going on at > the same time. If I understand correctly Satchmo will just choose one of > the discounts to make automatic. > > To summarize, yes the discounts work, but you gotta play within certain > constraints ... and careful not to remove the necessary code from the > templates. If there aren't efforts to improve this part of Satchmo already, > there probably will be at some point soon. > > On Monday, 3 June 2013 04:52:44 UTC-4, Paul Walsh wrote: >> >> I am trying to setup what should be a trivial discount: >> >> 1. 25% off all items in a category >> >> 2. If an item already has a reduced price, *don't* apply the discount. >> (bonus - the detect if the existing reduced price is less than 25%, reduce >> it too) >> >> But, I honestly can't even get Satchmo's Discounts to work. Not the >> normal ones, and not the auto ones. >> >> I am basically following this: >> >> http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/discounts.html >> >> - I setup a new 25% discount, for category "books" >> - I have auto discount on, and the coupon field is inactive >> >> My book pages already use the discount price filter - that is how, when >> we have reduced prices, I show a comparison of the higher price and a lower >> price, per item. >> >> I expect to see the discount price, 25% off the main price, showing via >> the discount filter. It does not - discount price still returns my normal >> price. >> >> >> >> Satchmo's built-in discount doesn't detect this... or, can it? >> >> Also, as a bonus, I'd actually like on those items with an already >> reduced price, to >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to satchmo-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to satchmo-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
