I'm just getting started with Zen Cart and many things are not yet obvious to me. I'd like to be able to offer coupons for an arbitrary group of products. Is there any way to do that? Thanks.
Steve
I'm just getting started with Zen Cart and many things are not yet obvious to me. I'd like to be able to offer coupons for an arbitrary group of products. Is there any way to do that? Thanks.
Steve
Arbitrary how? As in products you chose at random?
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It might as well be random. There is criteria for choosing the products, but the criteria are not something that Zen Cart itself is in a position to evaluate. Mostly, it will be based on marketing incentives that I get from the manufacturer. I'll be using Easy Populate, so I hope to be able to flag the products in a field that gets imported by Easy Populate
1 Stick the Products in a Category together and mark that as the Category for the Product ...
2 Add miscellaneous Products as the restriction on the coupon ...
Linda McGrath
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Thanks Ajeh. Can I do that and still keep the products in their current category heirarchy? Also, could I prevent the new category from showing on the category menu?
Using linked products and then putting that category on the Discount Coupon's restriction ...
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Thanks again Linda. For the life of me I don't get the zen of linking products, so I asked how to do it by asking the question in the FAQs section.
However, I may have another approach that might work better for me. Optimally, these same products would also be the Featured Products. Unfortunately, Easy Populate doesn't support Featured Products and there doesn't seem to be a coupon restriction for Featured Products.
The solution requires treading in the land of MySQL, a place that I probably do not belong. After creating the coupon by normal means, I updated the zen_featured and zen_coupon_restrict tables to include the products. This seems to work, but I've only done a small amount of testing. Do you think that this will eventually be blown apart by landmines, or is this a workable solution?
Steve
What is it about Linking that you don't understand?
Linked products are single items that reside in multiple categories.
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The part that I don't get is how to create the link. In the sample install, I can see how products are linked. However, for unlinked products, that area is greyed out.
Admin->Catalog->Categories/Products
- find your product
- click on the "c" in the button-bar on the right-hand end of that row
- choose the category you want to link it to
- choose "Link" instead of "duplicate", and submit
Now you'll have "one" product that resides in multiple categories. The master will be the first category you assigned it to, unless you change the master by manually editing the product and changing the master-categories-id via the pulldown above the product-name and available-date.
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