buy one of "X" get a "Y" free (or discounted) sale

**surlyjake** · 28 Dec 2007, 01:51 AM

I'm trying to create a sale that will discount item "Y" when item "X"+"Y" are in the cart. e.g:

Motherboard: $100
CPU: $100
monitor+CPU= 150.

The modules dont seem to support this. any ideas?

**swguy** · 28 Dec 2007, 01:59 AM

This is what Better Together does. Check the downloads area.

**surlyjake** · 28 Dec 2007, 02:05 AM

Then again, i could use a reading lesson. thanks swguy. will better together 1.6 have a problem in a 1.3.5 install?

YES!!!

edited bc. i asked another stupid question. thanks swguy

**swguy** · 28 Dec 2007, 02:08 AM

Better Together 1.6 is fine with Zen Cart 1.3.5 as long as it was a clean install or a proper upgrade. One person reported a problem but she had not upgraded correctly from 1.3.0.

**surlyjake** · 28 Dec 2007, 02:11 AM

attributes with stocks mod will still work?

**swguy** · 28 Dec 2007, 06:53 AM

OT modules are pretty self contained, so AFAIK yes.

**surlyjake** · 28 Dec 2007, 07:07 AM

I have installed it, have the module activated, and have edited the ot_better_together.php setup(). but i cannot get any affect. i tried it using cat_to_cat and couldn't get it to work (and yes, i minded the difference between parent&top level category ID's. I used the parent ID's). When cat2cat didn't work, I specified two individual products using their product ID's, and tested by adding them both to a cart. no result whatsoever.

where can I even begin to troubleshoot what the issue could be? there aren't any php errors on the shopping cart screen. I haven't added the code to tpl_product_info_display.php yet, could THAT point me in the right direction?

FYI. I am using a dual pricing mod for wholesale pricing... and I use the stocks by attributes mods.

Thank you for your time.

**swguy** · 28 Dec 2007, 07:38 AM

You know this is an order total module and you have to go to the second page of checkout to see the discount, right?

**surlyjake** · 29 Dec 2007, 04:24 AM

well... i do now. thank you. I have it up and running now.

just some notes:

1.something that tripped me up was the path for includes/templates/CUSTOM/templates/tpl_better_together_marketing.php.
It might be worth documenting that "custom" should be changed to the propper name of your template. I know its obvious to the seasoned, but not to the noobs or those in a rush. (i qualify as both)

2. you might want to note is that you can adjust size, color, and otherwise with your template's css by adding

Code:

#betterTogetherDiscountPolicy{
font-weight: bold;
}

to your CSS. This will help make the marketing announcement more visible (i put mine in huge red letters!)
3. The readme says:

The easiest way to do this
is to open a shopping cart in another window, and just start adding
discounts...

maybe this would be a good place to say "open up a shopping cart, and go to the checkout page". Just one more way your Readme can help me overcome my slowness

4. It would be helpful to add a notification to the end of the marketing line. i.e. "discount taken at checkout, it is not visible in the cart". Personally, I would prefer it to be a separate string that i could put on a second line, and could control through css separately from the rest of the line.

I might have to hit you up for the rest of the code to include the discount while viewing the cart. Thanks again for your help and your expertly commented code.

**swguy** · 29 Dec 2007, 01:24 PM

Some of these things are in the extended help on my home page.

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca..._together.html

Take a look at this for more marketing ideas.

(1) is an excellent point, and in fact, it's in the READMEs for the newer things I've done; I just didn't add it to my earlier contributions. It's a very easy common mistake for new people.

Thanks,
Scott