Just out of curiosity, can you apply other conditions to the manual promotions so that they only appear in the drop down when those conditions are met?
Thanks Scott On 26/10/2007, Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott is right, > > #2 is now supported in OFBiz (since last week). > Just create a standard promotion and when you associate it to the Store, > set the "manual only" flag to Y > It will appear in the "manual promotions" drop down in the order entry > screen. > > Jacopo > > Scott Gray wrote: > > I think Jacopo improved the manual promotions things recently, might pay > to > > check the commit logs from the past week and also the dev list. Not > sure > > about the management thing but it should be pretty easy to create a > report > > that pulls up the manual promos and who gave them out. > > > > Regards > > Scott > > > > On 26/10/2007, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> suggestion: > >> have the promotions for a product show and use a check box to apply. > >> setup of a max discount per order that is based on the gross profit of > >> the order. this would allow the OE personnel to select discount but > >> allow management to keep a certain profit margin. > >> this would be calculated on the fly as the OE adds and deletes Items > >> from the order. > >> > >> > >> Dave Tenerowicz sent the following on 10/25/2007 4:29 PM: > >>> We have an OfBiz client who wants to allow special pricing for > products > >>> - available only at the order takers discretion. This does not apply > to > >>> orders received via the web which will use standard pricing. > >>> > >>> 1) One way to handle this would be to create multiple marketing > packages > >>> with the special price as the default price, and allow the OE person > to > >>> select one of these manually, if they wish. This would be cumbersome, > >>> but workable. > >>> > >>> 2) Another way would be to use manual promotions, to provide a > discount > >>> for the product or perhaps all the products in the category (simpler > >>> from a rule maintenance perspective). The OE person would then select > >>> and run the promotion manually. To me this seems a better approach. > >>> > >>> In either case, management wants to ensure that they can track how > many > >>> of these discounts are given and who gave them - so they can exert > some > >>> management control over excessive discounting. > >>> > >>> Is there any better way to accomplish their objective- both in terms > of > >>> ease of use and management oversight? > >>> > > > > >
