Re: Help to set up a promotion

[David E. Jones]

-David


On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Great, glad it worked out. So did you end up creating a new action, or changing the way the candidate counting works? I guess I'm mostly wondering if there is an enhancement that could go in to make this easier for others in the future.

David,



Thanks,

Jacopo


David E. Jones wrote:

this message is just to let you know that your hints about how to implement a new action to handle this kind of promo turned out to be of great help.

The general idea with these sorts of promotions is that each quantity of each item can be used either as a qualifier or a benefactor of the promotion. My guess is that addPromoQuantityCandidateUse is returning 0 because the two items are already use up as qualifiers, and therefore can't be benefactors. So, this is a case where you would have to write a special promo action to handle the scenario so that the items are both qualifiers and benefactors. There are some others that are like that.

-David
On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

David,

thanks for your answer, please see my comments inline:

David E. Jones wrote:

So, what you want is a promotion for buy A and B get 20% off both.

I don't think we have a promotion implemented like that. You can see in the actions what your options are, like buy X of certain products get 50% (or 100%) off of one of them, or the Gift With Purchase where it adds a product with a certain discount to the cart, etc. What happens with the rule you setup? I guess it may do nothing, I'm not sure if it is designed to handle that, but you can always walk through the code and see what it is/isn't doing (ie see if the conditions evaluate to true, and see what the action tries to do).

Yes, your guess is right, it doesn't do anything.


I still cannot figure out why...

Jacopo

The two conditions are both true, but the actions is not run because the ShoppingCartItem.addPromoQuantityCandidateUse(...) returns a 0.0 value

-David
On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Hi all,

I'm having hard time to set up the following promotion:



Example:
product A: unit price $100
product B: unit price $200

if they are both added to the cart:
product A: unit price $100, adjustment $20, line amount = $80
product B: unit price $200, adjustment $40, line amount = $160


I tried to implement it with one promo with two conditions:



and one action:



The problem is that:

a) the above promotion is never applied


Here is an example of it:

"If product A and product B are to the cart, then apply a 20% discount to product A and a 20% discount to product B" cond 1: "X Quantity of Product", "Is", quantity=1 for "Rule Product"=A cond 2: "X Quantity of Product", "Is", quantity=1 for "Rule Product"=B action: "X Product For Y% Discount", quantity=1, amount=20 for "Action Product"=A,B b) if I use one condition (instead of the two above) the 20% discount is applied to one of the product only and the amount is then splitted and assigned to the two items in the cart!!! https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/catalog/control/EditProductPromo? productPromoId=10000

Any hints?

Thanks,

Jacopo

You can test it by creating an order and adding product "A" and "B" to the cart. I've also tried to setup two different actions or to setup two different promotions with the same rules but one action each (one for A, and one for B), but without success.

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