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Mar 2013

Hi, I am trying to set up pricing discounts based on quantity ordered. This seems like a common type of thing, so I can't imagine there is no way to do it in E-Junkie. Can you help me figure out how to do it? I've been playing around with adding a product and the variant options, but nothing seems to work.



Please advise,



Sarah

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Hello Sarah,



This can be done with our discount feature. You can create automatically applying discounts that kick in after certain quantities are ordered. To do this go to Seller Admin > Add/Edit E-junkie Cart Discounts.



Start by selecting one of the products you would like to discount in the Product menu (you can also select All Cart Items if you wish).



Then give your discount a distinct Discount Name. This is for internal tracking so do not ever use the same name twice or you will just overwrite your existing discounts. If you want to make a series of discounts that kick in for higher quantities that is fine, you may want to name those something like "Quantity Discount 1" then "Quantity Discount 2" and so on.



Leave the Discount Codes field blank. This means the discount automatically applies when the other conditions are met.



Set Min Item Quantity to the minimum order amount before the discount kicks in. You'll notice there is no Max Item Quantity but there does not need to be. If you want to make a higher discount for higher quantities just do so and set it to have a higher minimum. Our system will select the most appropriate discount on based on the size of the order.



You do not need to set expiration dates or max use or any of the other conditions.



For the discount, bear in mind that product discounts are locked at flat amounts. If you wanted to give 10% off the price of an item you can do so, but you will need to type in the flat amount based on the product price rather than the percentage. All Cart Items discounts can have percentages.



Once you have created such a discount you should see it listed in your cart and sales logs as a "Current Promotion" when the conditions are met.



As a final note, be sure that you are using our recommended Add to Cart buttons for this, since the other options don't support our discount features.

Thank you very much for the help. I really appreciate it. Your quick response is one of the things that makes me want to stick with E-junkie. You guys are awesome :)



Here's my follow up question - Is there a way to take wholesale orders? I would be ok with setting up as two different products, but it needs to do two things: (1) Not charge sales tax; (2) allow buyers to submit their sales tax certificate # (ideally as required). How would you recommend I set this up?



Thanks,



Sarah

Yes, you can do that by setting up the wholesale version as a separate product, and leave Sales Tax/VAT disabled for that product. For the tax ID, you could enable "Variations which tell more..." for the product, which would allow you to define a text field that would be included with the Add to Cart button code:

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

Great that works fine. Although, I wish I could make it required to fill out the field before the order would be processed.



One last question: When creating the product, I have checked the box for shipping, but it only asks for the zip code. I need the entire shipping address. Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?



Thanks again!



Sarah

We don't have a built-in way to make a Variations option field required, but that could be done with some javascript validation in your page -- e.g., this one's fairly simple:

1http://validatious.org/1



Our cart only needs the buyer's country and ZIP/postal code to calculate shipping charges; the full shipping address would be collected during checkout.

That seems odd because how will PayPal or Google checkout know which products require a shipping address? It doesn't know if the person is buying a digital product or one that needs shipping - right?

That would be determined by the Shipping/Buyer's Address setting for each product. If the buyer's order has any products with that setting enabled, then when we send that order to checkout, we tell the payment processor to collect a shipping address during checkout.