How to implement Group Discounts?

[MeltDown]

I'm sure that I'm unable to see the forest for the trees here but...

I've finally found the Group Discounts mod in admin/modules/order total. Once installed how do I add groups? How can I implement the discount percentages?

And just a couple other questions, as well: Will the discounted prices be visible in the shopping cart as the customer shops or just at checkout? What happens when the customer purchases sale items? What if they attempt to purchase a gift certificate?

Sorry to be such a pain - It's just that I'm anxious to setup a Rewards-type program and am having a hard time getting my head around the whole thing.

Thanks for any help you can offer

[pinetreecandles]

I'm sure that I'm unable to see the forest for the trees here but...

I've finally found the Group Discounts mod in admin/modules/order total. Once installed how do I add groups? How can I implement the discount percentages?

And just a couple other questions, as well: Will the discounted prices be visible in the shopping cart as the customer shops or just at checkout? What happens when the customer purchases sale items? What if they attempt to purchase a gift certificate?

Sorry to be such a pain - It's just that I'm anxious to setup a Rewards-type program and am having a hard time getting my head around the whole thing.

Thanks for any help you can offer

From admin:
Click on "Customers" then "Group Pricing"
setup your group name and give it a discount % and enter it without the percentage sign.

To answer your other questions:

They wont see the discount until they are into the checkout process. I think the second step they will see it. From what I can tell it will discount everything in the store by the amount you set. That includes gift certificates and sale items.

I'm just converting my store from osc to zen cart so I'm not sure if there is a mod that will do what you like for zen. I have one on my store with OSC that does that, but I think u will find overall, zen cart is a much better platform to build your store from. Just a pain to learn when you are used to osc.

[MeltDown]

From admin:
Click on "Customers" then "Group Pricing"
setup your group name and give it a discount % and enter it without the percentage sign.

To answer your other questions:

They wont see the discount until they are into the checkout process. I think the second step they will see it. From what I can tell it will discount everything in the store by the amount you set. That includes gift certificates and sale items.

I'm just converting my store from osc to zen cart so I'm not sure if there is a mod that will do what you like for zen. I have one on my store with OSC that does that, but I think u will find overall, zen cart is a much better platform to build your store from. Just a pain to learn when you are used to osc.

Oh there it is...! I knew it had to be right in front of my eyes.

OK so now I have a test group with a 10% discount. How do I put individual customers into that group?

As for my Zen: I think it's a great product and am certainly not going anywhere. This Rewards-type add-on has been the first mod that I've wanted to install that wasn't already more-or-less pre-packaged and ready to go. I have seen some really slick ones out there. I especially like when customers can see the discounts reflected in the shopping cart as they go. I believe that increases the amount they will purchase in one session. This is an order_total mod so I quess that isn't an option. It can be done individually with Quantity Discounts that is native to Zen. I wonder if that could be built on...

[swguy]

OK so now I have a test group with a 10% discount. How do I put individual customers into that group?

Admin->Customers->Customers->Edit, scroll to the bottom, change discount pricing group.

[MeltDown]

Admin->Customers->Customers->Edit, scroll to the bottom, change discount pricing group.

Thanks Scott - That did the trick. I also PM'ed you.