Need a hand with discounts

[lynnora]

Hi,



I have a pattern shop in which I sell PDF sewing patterns. It has set discounts like "Buy 3, get 10% off", "Buy 5, get 15% off". "Buy 8, get 20% off". These are percentage based discounts with a miminum amount of patterns purchased.



That is all working perfectly.



BUT...



My new fabric shop is opening up in which I will be selling fabric, on the same website, too, and of course, I do NOT want people to use the PDF discounts on my fabric! How do I go about this?

I have been trying all day but can't work this out - I can't tell the discount to only apply to certain items (i.e. the PDF files), and not to the fabric?



Do I have to make 2 different E-Junkie accounts to make this work, and if so, is this possible? Or is there any other way I can work with this??



Thank you.

[lynnora]

I have tried to make a 'set' flat discount for every PDF item specifically, but this only results in the cart telling me 'You need at least 3 of these skirt PDF patterns for the coupon to work' - apparently, the minimum amount of items cannot be used when using a set discount for every item specifically.

[lynnora]

Tried all the flat discounts per item specifically again with a minimum amount and again it tells me I need to spend at least 20 dollar on that one PDF pattern. Is there no way to simply exclude items from your discount? That seems so strange. I'm rather dissatisfied at the moment.

[E-junkie_Guru]

This help page explains our Discounts feature in detail:

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



You can create a discount for All Cart Items that takes either a single flat amount or a percentage off the Item Total (pre-tax/-shipping subtotal) or Shipping+Handling total in the buyer's cart. These discounts cannot be restricted to include or exclude only specific items. If you require a Min. Item Qty./Total threshold to qualify for such discounts, that counts the Qty./Total of all items in the buyer's cart.



You can also create product-specific discounts, which alter the product's original per-unit price by a flat amount. You can use the same Discount Code for multiple product-specific discounts, so the buyer would only need to enter that Code once to markdown all items in their cart which have a discount for that Code; just take care you give each discount a unique Discount Name, as that's how our system distinguishes one discount from another. If you require a Min. Item Qty./Total threshold to qualify for these discounts, that would only count the Qty./Total of that particular item in the buyer's cart.



Short of having two separate E-junkie accounts for your PDF patterns vs. fabrics, the best solution I could suggest would be to use Buy Now buttons for your fabrics and Cart buttons for your PDFs. This would allow buyers to add multiple PDFs to the same order to qualify for your volume discounts, but fabric orders using Buy Now buttons would bypass the cart to take buyers directly to instant checkout for just that one item alone, and would thus be exempted from the cart-based volume discounts.

[lynnora]

That wouldn't be much practical though, as buyers want to purchase various yards of various fabrics. I think it's rather impractical you cannot exclude or include specific items to a discount code; I have seen I am not the only one bothered by that. Are there any planned fixes to this?

[lynnora]

I have another question. I have put the weight settings to grams as I'm from the Netherlands.

When I want to add a product that has variants with individual colors, it asks me to add 'ounces'. I assumed I could add 'grams' too, because I have changed my shipping settings to grams instead. However, this is not working.

[lynnora]

Variants:



Enter the details of each variant in the box below (one on each line) in the following format:

SKU,Price,Ounces,Stock,Option1Value,Option2Value,Option3Value







---> I can't put in ounces, because my settings are in grams. However, I did try to put in Ounces instead after calculation, but this is still not working together with all the shipping rules I made. Whatever I do, it calculates the lowest shipping price for no matter how many of these products I add.

[E-junkie_Guru]

The ability to group products for a discount is on our Wishlist for consideration as a possible new feature at some point in the future, but presently we have no projection of when or even if that feature would be implemented.



You can assume all weight-related settings will use the Weight Unit Preference you selected in your Cart Shipping Settings. That should have changed all labels for Weight settings from Ounces to Grams, but it appears we overlooked changing that in the Variants configuration example. Rest assured that if you'd selected Grams, whatever weight figure you enter in the "ounces" position for Variants would be treated as grams, no manual conversion necessary.



This help page explains our Variants and Variations configuration in full detail:

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