Better Together Contribution Support Thread

[albertomrubio]

Hi,

I have a question and sugestion. I have installed your module as I found it very very interesting. CONGRATULATIONS. But just one concern at least for me.
You know that some of as uses Discount Groups, and others like my self that uses the Discount Pert Itemes Per Group prices. The problem is that a 2x1 or what ever offer based on the listed price is good for the business, the problem is when you sell to at the same time to "final customers" "reselleres" and or "distributors". one 2x1 offer based on price list for example 10 USD is ok, but when you have a Price group for 50% off price list, for exaple "Reselleres" then with your module they will have 10USD plus 50% off - 5USD plus 2x1 - 2.5 USD per item..... Well to shot this out as i guess you may figure out what i mean. Is ther a posibility to avoid a Better together offer to some Group Price or for all of them by default?

[swguy]

If you want to avoid double discounting, you should modify your per item per group logic to not discount items you have Better Together discounts on. You will have to ask whoever supports that code how to make that change.

[albertomrubio]

Ok, Thanks for the reply. I will try tofigure out how to do this. One more question. Is there a posibility to list all Better Toguether products on one list just like Specials items?

[swguy]

Not right now. I have toyed with this idea in the past, but the trouble is, it's hard to make it relevant. If you are looking for gardening tools, you don't really care that diapers are discounted when purchased with baby food. That's why the marketing text on the product page is the promotional mechanism I have suggested - the customer has already drilled down and indicated his interest. That's the optimal upselling point.

Nevertheless, thank you for the suggestion, and I'll think on it some more.

That Software Guy

[swguy]

I've had a change of heart on this. Look for a new optional download in late September providing this functionality. I think I'd like to keep it separate because not everyone wants it, but it definitely has value.

Scott

[swguy]

Is there a posibility to list all Better Toguether products on one list just like Specials items?

OK, this is now ready. Right now it's just a zip file on my website; I guess if people like it I'll submit it to the download area, but I wanted to keep it out of the main contribution so that people would have a choice of whether or not to use it. Here's the zip:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/promo_better.zip

and if you want to see what it looks like before installing it, here's an example:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/swguy...together_promo

Scott

[swguy]

Better Together 1.5 has been released and is available in the download area.
It builds on the introduction of tpl_better_together_marketing.php (as the way to add marketing text to the product info page) in the following ways:

- The marketing text has been consolidated to a single div named
betterTogetherDiscountPolicy. This div is only created when it is needed,
so you are now free to style it with a border. If you have styled
"discountPolicy" and "discountPolicyReverse" (the previous names), please
incorporate this name change into your stylesheet.

- Some wording changes have been made to the marketing text to further
clarify the discount being offered. If you have made changes to the
language file, you will want to install the new one and merge your changes.
In particular, the change noted in post 97

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...7&postcount=97

is critical for two for one category discounts, and must be installed. Other
changes are required to align the marketing text with how the code actually works.

The core contribution does not include the "Promotional Page" described in the previous
post, which is packaged separately and is available as a free download off my site.

Thank you,
That Software Guy

[swguy]

If you are using Better Together and want to use Google Checkout, please upgrade to Better Together 1.5a. A bug was detected in the process() routine in ot_better_together.php that makes Google Checkout unable to determine the discount. Of course, you will also need to be running Google Checkout v1.4.1_beta2 (or better), which contains the fixes required to make Order Total modules work.

If you have made significant changes outside of the setup() routine and just want to merge in this change, look for the string 'value'. You will see

   'value' => $this->deduction);

Change this to

   'value' => $od_amount['total']);

So the whole block should look like this:

          $this->output[] = array('title' => $this->title . ':',
                                 'text' => '-' . $currencies->format($od_amount['total'], true, $order->info['currency'], $order->info['currency_value']),
                                 'value' => $od_amount['total']);

Thank you,
That Software Guy

[MikeyG]

swguy,

this mod was working okay and I have just added a second promo and now I get this error regardsless of how many promos it only goes if I take all promos off the module ot_betther_together.php file

error is

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /secure/f/mydomain/includes/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php on line 457

odd it should suddenly occur. I have even taken a new copy of the file from the down load incase I had deleted something by error.

But still get issue. Look forward to your help and thoughts

MG

[swguy]

Typically this indicates a brace or bracket imbalance.