Package Deals

[Twister47]

Been taking a look around the forum and havent been able to answer this question yet.

How do I setup sales so that for example, if the user orders Item A and Item B together a discount is applied, that wouldnt be if they ordered the items seperate?

Or other variations:
-Item B is free when ordered with Item A.
-Items A, B, C when ordered together is a set price.

Thanks

[Merlinpa1969]

this isnt available in zen cart at this time

[zenned]

what a GREAT idea!

[LEP]

Twister47 --

The simple solution is to create a 'phantom' product, maybe in a separate category, that contains the package of items at a single price.

Say you want to sell a matching necklace, earrings & brooch seperately, or all together as a set. You create the individual items, & then a fourth product with all three included. You can put whatever price for the group you want, give it special shipping, whatever.

AFAICT, the only place this breaks down is tracking the quanity of items in stock, which you'll just have to deal with. But to the customer it's dead easy.

Of course, it doesn't work at all for 'mix & match' sets, where the customer creates the package. But the way you stated the question, it'd work fine.

-- Larry

[wilt]

You may also want to check out the observer class docs. in the wiki.

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Observer_Class

[wrong]

Eureka!!! I've figured out how to do this... sort of.

For this example we'll pretend that you want to offer customers this deal: If you buy product A, you get $3.00 off product B. For simplicity's sake, Let's say Product A and B both individually sell for $10.00, but if you buy one you can get the other at $7.00.

Customers will have to put both product A and B into their shopping cart at full price, then enter a coupon code which will be applied. So first we have to create a coupon.

Use the Coupon module (Gift Certificates/Coupons > Coupon Admin) to create a coupon. For the "coupon amount," enter the dollar amount you wish to have taken off, in this case $3.00. In "coupon minimum order," enter $20.00 -- so the cart will have to be $20.00 or greater for the coupon to even work. Enter the rest of everything, dates etc, to your desire. Click preview and create the coupon.

Now we have to set it up so that the coupon only applies to the item we want it to.

Go back to the Coupon Admin screen. Click your new coupon, then click the "Restrictions" button. In the "product restrictions" section, create restrictions for both products A and B and make sure you "allow" them. Next comes the annoying part: you have to create restrictions for every other item in that category, and "deny" them. This prevents the coupon from being applied to any order above $20.00 regardless of what's in the cart (i.e. if you don't do this, a customer could put two each of product C ($10 each) in the cart and the coupon would still be valid). One way to avoid having to do this would be to create a new category which ONLY had the items you wish to put on sale in this manner. Then create a category restriction for that category and "allow" it, and a category restriction for every other category and "deny" them.

Now we're almost there... there is one small flaw that I haven't been able to iron out. Say a customer puts product A in their cart at $10. Then they put product C in their cart at $10. At this point if they choose to enter the coupon code it would apply the coupon and subtract $3 even though product B is not in the cart. This requires a certain amount of experimentation on the part of the customer -- I would venture that most customers wouldn't think to try this -- but certainly some would. It's a risk. But hey, if they are adding product C and then apply the coupon, that's $7 extra you earn that you wouldn't otherwise have earned if they'd only bought Product A.

Wow, I'm sorry that was so long and verbose. My first time giving advice on here. If anyone has any thoughts on how to improve this, please email me!!

[wrong]

To eleborate further --

It'd be great if future version of ZenCart allowed conditions to be set for coupons based on boolean operators (and, or, not, if/then), similar to the way the "find" feature works in some operating systems, and in fact, the "Search" function here in this very forum to some extent does this. So for instance, you could set a coupon up so that it applied as follows:

IF:
Condition 1: Product A is in the cart
AND:
Condition 2: Product B is in the cart
THEN:
Coupon: Apply discount of $3.00

Another neat feature would be if, at checkout, you could set custom greetings to greet the customer based on what was in their cart. So if they have Product A in their cart but not product B, you could set a message to come up that said "Special deal!!! Since you are buying product A you are eligible for a special discount!!! Click here to add Product B for a special price of only $7.00!!!"

My two cents.

[SarahL]

I agree that something like this would be good too - even if you could do a sale on number of items :)

[Noutje]

On OSCOMMERCE there is also a contribution Dangling Carrot. This can add a product to the cart when the order total reaches some value.
Then you can add a free product when ordering for more dan e.g. $200,--
Or nomal price is 39,95 but when ordering for more than $200,-- the product is only $9,95.
This product is shown under the cart contents in shopping cart with an add to cart button.
Also when the order total is not reached yet under the shopping cart contents a pic + text is shown "Just spend for $xx.xx to get ...."

This would be a nice feature for Zencart too

[Ajeh]

NOTE: when setting restrictions ... often adding the
Category Top Deny

will allow much more flexibility and require less settings for a situation where only one or two products or categories are allowed ...

This was added in the v1.3.x series for this purpose ...