Can't set quantity discounts

[HeleneWallis]

I've done this and made it work in the past, but for some reason I can't get it to work now. I've set pricing by attribute to yes, and I've entered the quantity pricing correctly (I believe) as 1:27.50, 50:27. In other words, if someone buys just one of these, they'll be charged $27.50, and if they buy more than one, the price should drop to $27.00 each, up to 50 units. Nobody is ever going to buy that many, so 50 seemed like a safe upper limit. I'm not seeing the quantity discount for quantities greater than one. What am I missing here? The instructions seems straightforward, but it isn't working as described.

[mc12345678]

Would help to have more information about this setup:
Current price of the product.
Is it priced by attributes?
Are the attributes in attributes controller marked as discounted?
In the setup of quantity discounts: what is the discount type?
How is the "discount priced from"?
Is the product on sale or in a special?
Does the discount as far as quantity depend on multiple quantities of the same set of attributes or only dependent on the quantity of the base product?

What I see in the setup is that by identifying the "lowest" discount as 1:27.50 is that the purchase of 1 will be given the discount until a quantity of 50 is applied.

[swguy]

... I've entered the quantity pricing correctly (I believe) as 1:27.50, 50:27.

Quantity Discounts aren't entered as colon separated pairs.

You set quantities and discount levels on a special screen that looks like this:

https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/produ...ity_discounts/

For your case, use Min Qty 2, Discount Value 0.50.
Discount Priced from: Price, Discount Type: Amount Off.

Then purchases of 2 or more will get $0.50 off each.

[HeleneWallis]

The product price always has been $27.50. We'd like to offer a quantity discount (because we used to also sell it in a larger size for a better price and can no longer get the boxes for the larger size). So we would like to offer a quantity discount for buying more than one of the only available size.

I did change it to pricing by attributes when I was trying to get this to work. I have the pricing breakdown in the 'Attributes Qty Price Discount' field, if that's what you mean by 'Are the attributes in attributes controller marked as discounted?'

I'm not sure what your next question means. I entered the two prices in the Qty Price Discount field so I would have thought that established it as a quantity price discount. The discount is from what multiple quantities of the product would cost without the discount. In other words, right now, if someone buys two of them, they will be charged $55.00. I'd like any quantity greater than one to be charged $27.00 each rather than $27.50 each. This is neither a sale nor a special, but a permanent quantity price discount.

I understand what you're saying about a discount being applied until a quantity of 50 is reached, but that's not how the FAQ explains setting it up, nor how it worked for me before.

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....iscounts-Field

[HeleneWallis]

Quantity Discounts aren't entered as colon separated pairs.

You set quantities and discount levels on a special screen that looks like this:

https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/produ...ity_discounts/

For your case, use Min Qty 2, Discount Value 0.50.
Discount Priced from: Price, Discount Type: Amount Off.

Then purchases of 2 or more will get $0.50 off each.

It appeared to me that the Price Manager was intended for situations where a discount of some sort was applied across an entire list of products. That's not the case here. I have only three products that need to be discounted by quantity.

[swguy]

OK I see - you were looking at help on Attribute Quantity Discounts.

Products Price Manager discounts individual products according to the quantity purchased.

[HeleneWallis]

OK I see - you were looking at help on Attribute Quantity Discounts.

Products Price Manager discounts individual products according to the quantity purchased.

Possibly I misunderstood the distinction between the two features, but I was going by the explanation in a previous question about it. I will try setting it up with the Products Price Manager instead.

[swguy]

If you really just want to discount sales of 2 or more of this product by $0.50, use Product Price Manager as described above.

One possible reason attribute quantity discounting wouldn't work is if you have Admin > Configuration > Attributes > Enable Qty Price Discount to false. I'm not sure, but because you're not really discounting attributes, you don't have to use attribute quantity discounting.

[mc12345678]

And now that some of the settings have gotten addressed (whether the end result is achieved or not), I wanted to point out that for testing to be sure to go all the way to the cart with the product being added. There are/were some configurations in earlier ZC versions that would not display the correct initial value on the product information page with I think 1.5.5 being the last version to really have that problem.

[HeleneWallis]

If you really just want to discount sales of 2 or more of this product by $0.50, use Product Price Manager as described above.

One possible reason attribute quantity discounting wouldn't work is if you have Admin > Configuration > Attributes > Enable Qty Price Discount to false. I'm not sure, but because you're not really discounting attributes, you don't have to use attribute quantity discounting.

It's working now, thank you. My impression from reading other people's questions about the Products Price Manager was that it was intended to give a discount for all items in an order (or for all items in a category) if some specified benchmark was met, and that the Attributes Pricing should be used when only individual products needed to have a price discount. I see how to use it now for individual products.