Buy 3 get 1 free discount

[peatbog]

I need to implement a buy 3 get 1 free discount. This topic http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3083 has a reply that suggests that I can enter a discount that can do that: "We can now support setting discount thresholds by the total unit-quantity in the cart".



However, when I go to Add /Update discounts, I can only add a discount that applies to the Item Total not the Cart Total.



So what I'm looking for is a method to apply a 33% discount on nominated items when the total item count in the cart is 3. Is this possible?

[E-junkie_Guru]

This help page explains our discount settings in detail:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.discounts.htm



When you set up a discount in Seller Admin > Cart Discounts, the Min. Item Quantity would determine a minimum order threshold a buyer's cart order must meet to qualify for the discount. For discounts applied to All Cart Items, the Min. Item Quantity counts the total quantity of all items in the buyer's cart. For discounts applied to a specific product, the Min. Item Quantity counts the quantity of just that item in the buyer's cart.



Note that a 33% discount with a Min. Item Quantity of 3 would effectively be a "buy 2 get 1 free" or "get 3 for the price of 2" deal, since the buyer would be ordering and receiving 3 items but only paying a price equivalent to 2 items. A "buy 3 get 1 free" or "get 4 for the price of 3" deal would be a 25% discount with a Min. Item Quantity of 4.

[peatbog]

Ok, thanks. I presume from the definition of the discount that the discount gets applied when any 3 items are in the cart?



So lets say that the customer buys three items:



1 CD

1 Song "....ABC...."

1 Song "....XYZ...."



In the above case the discount would be applied to the CD for which a 33% discount was defined, even though the discount is only defined (and intended) for CD purchases, e.g. an incentive to buy more CD's. The purchase of 2 individual songs will set the cart item total at 3 and the system would apply the 33% discount on the CD purchase. Am I correct?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

In your example a cart wide 33% discount would be applied to each item. So the CD and both songs would get 33% off.



There is not a way to setup a discount that applies to a group of items, so you would not be able to setup a discount that will only work with CDs. You could make product specific discounts, but the limit is then for that specific product, so for the discount to work, the buyer would need to have 3 of the same CD in their cart.