Hi,

Thanks for responding.

The discounts system does work, but under some circumstances it is not very 
> intuitive.
>
 
You can say that again. 

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.
>

Isn't the idea of auto-discounts precisely that the customer would not have 
to use a coupon code?
 

> 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.


Ouch. I am trying to apply to one category (and children).
 

> 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.
>

Do you know what template tag is used to show such a message?
 

> 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.
>

Sounds terrible, to be honest, and can only deal with the most trivial of 
use cases in the e-commerce world. I wish I'd investigated this issue 
further before using Satchmo (not the first time I've said that).

Thanks for your help though.
 

>
> 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 
>>
>

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