2 products and discounts

[jjones]

Hi,

The service looks great, and I'm ready to use it, except I just can't figure out if this is possible. I've searched the forums and gone through the help but I haven't quite found this scenario.



Here is what I'm trying to do:

I have 2 products (software) - 1 sells for $49 and 1 sells for $99



I'd like to use the Add to Cart functionality for each product. When the user chooses their quantity I'd like to provide a discount like this:



For either product 1 or product 2 I'd like to do the following:

-On cart, if Quantity selected = 1 - apply no discount

-On cart, if Quantity selected between 2-5 units - apply a 10% discount to the total price

-On cart, if Quantity selected between 6-10 units - apply a 20% discount to the total price

etc.



Is this possible? If so I'll be signing up.



Thanks.

Jim-

[austin457]

Yea, I'm trying to pretty much setup the same thing. If there is already a way to do this, I haven't figured it out yet. I think it would be a nice option for e-Junkie to make a slight change on the Cart Discounts page. If they would add a "Maximum Order Amount" in addition to the existing "Minimum Order Amount", I think it might help to setup a sliding percentage discount such as this. Then we could establish a price range to apply each level of discount to. That might be a simpler approach for them than creating something that bases the discount on unit qty. Either way I'd be happy.

Input?

[austin457]

I had thought of trying this method earlier, but because you can only apply one Cart Total and one Shipping discount per cart, I didn’t think it would work. I've been trying it out during the night, and so far it seems to work.

It seems the cart is “smart” enough to select the correct coupon to apply when you have multiple coupons available for automatic application.

Thus if you set up the following in the Cart Discounts / Gift Certificates:

$0 - $10 = no discount

$10.01 - $20.00 = %5 name = “Coupon 1” code = blank

$20.01 - $30.00 = %10 name = “Coupon 2” code = blank

$30.01 - $40.00 = %15 name = “Coupon 3” code = blank

etc.

Note: By leaving the Discount code field blank, the coupon gets applied to the whole cart automatically.

I had originally thought to try to “stack” the coupons, but that seems unnecessary. As I said, the cart seems smart and selects the highest coupon available and applies it. The only drawback is if you use percentage such as I did in the example, it will continue to apply the greatest coupon. In other words, the actual discount $ amount will continue to rise as they add items to the cart with no cap. If you use a set dollar amount for a discount, you won’t have this problem.

Very important to remember this solution will apply to your entire inventory since it is applied to the whole cart.

To break it down by the item, I tried setting up discounts on each item individually (View/Edit/Delete Product). Third screen, called More Options, has a field to enter discount codes. You would have to enter values for every item on each one’s More Options page. I thought you could enter a pre-made discount name in here (from the Cart Discounts page), but it didn’t work. The only thing you can do is enter a name and a dollar amount. This name would have to be entered in the discount field on the cart by the customer. I guess it could be good for promos, but not so good for an automatic bulk discount rate such as I (we) are trying to set up.

I’ll play around some more, but I think that might be all we can do with this setup.

Still looking for input…

Austin

[jjones]

Austin,

Thanks for trying to figure this out. I'm not sure I follow how this could work for 2 products. It seems like a discount can be setup and applied automatically for the entire cart only. So you'd just be setting minimum total order amounts where the discount would kick in, correct?



But if the user mixed and matched products in their cart, then the discount (based on total cart order) would be correct.



Product 1 price: $50 (discount at 2-5 units = 10%, 6-10 units = 20%)

Product 2 price: $100 (discount at 2-5 units = 10%, 6-10 units = 20%)



------Cart------

Product 1 qty: 6 (eligible for 20% discount)

Subtotal: 300



Product 2 qty: 3 (eligible for 10% discount)

Subtotal: 300



Total Order: 600

------------------

Ideally it would calculate like this:

Product 1: 300 * .80 = 240 (20% discount applied)

Product 2: 300 * .90 = 270 (10% discount applied)

Total Order: 510



But, with e-junkie, the best we can do is apply some fixed rate discount at the $500 minimum - we can't do a "blended discount" it seems.

[austin457]

"It seems like a discount can be setup and applied automatically for the entire cart only. So you'd just be setting minimum total order amounts where the discount would kick in, correct?"



Correct



As for the rest, that is the problem I was referring to. We have no way of applying an automatic discount based on the ITEM or qty. The only automatic discounts are based on total dollar amount. The only item specific discount that we can apply requires the user to enter a discount code name (that you have to create for each item and then give to the customer). This code has no calculation value. You give it a name and a dollar value, and the customer enters the name in the cart to get it applied.

Also, remember- the cart can only automatically apply ONE discount on order total. I think you can stack the manually entered code discounts, but I’m not certain.

In my case, I can make the existing setup sort of work for me since I only have 4 products with the same price. I would have to use dollars instead of percentage to avoid the no cap issue.

To avoid the hassle while I was figuring this out, I created a 5th item that I call a “combo” special that consists of the 4 items, and I gave it a fixed price that looks like a discount. That might be an option for some, but the downside to this method is the virtual item is still an item that you have to create a button for and thus it counts as an item in regards to your e-junkie account limit.

I know I’m being a bit repetitive, but just trying to keep the thread clear for anyone following.



… we can’t be the first ones trying this- anyone care to add?

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