Better Together Contribution Support Thread

[natefromdetroit]

Has anyone had difficulties getting this to function? I have uploaded the files and added the code manually and with the admin plugin and it wont add the discount at checkout. My goal is to get category 3 to have 60% when buying anything from category 1. I've tried product to product code as well. No discount is showing in the shopping cart. Anyone had this and resolved it or know what I could be doing wrong? I followed the install to its every detail. :lost:

[DogTags]

Zencart 1.3.7.1

I've looked at various discounting modules and I'm not sure which one will do the trick.

I'd like to offer combinations of two and three items where:

1. If you buy A, you get a percent discount on either B or C or Both.

2. and....where the discount-module has quantity ceilings/maximums, and then default item pricing takes over - meaning, over certain item quantities (per type of item) - the item's regular sliding pricing (through native zencart) applies.

Perhaps there could be quantity ranges like this:

If you buy 2-4 of A, then you get percentage discounts on 3-6 of B and/or percentage discounts on 1-2 of C.

However, what I'm trying to avoid is where a small quantity of A is ordered so as to trigger too big of a discount on large quantities of C.

Meaning, if 1 of A is ordered just to get a 50% discount on 1,000 of C, on top of any native sliding discount in the zen item pricing.

I can see that many of the discount modules can have a MINIMUM required quantity, but can any of the modules also have MAXIMUM quantity - so as to create bracketed discounted groupings? Maybe it's just a case of creating further tiers out to 0% discounts.

Many thanks

[swguy]

Response by PM.

[Decostyle]

I've spent the whole morning trying to figure out why the discounts weren't working and finally I figured out that I was using a Linked product ID. You have to be using the main category ID of the product or category otherwise the discounts don't work.

Has anyone had difficulties getting this to function? I have uploaded the files and added the code manually and with the admin plugin and it wont add the discount at checkout. My goal is to get category 3 to have 60% when buying anything from category 1. I've tried product to product code as well. No discount is showing in the shopping cart. Anyone had this and resolved it or know what I could be doing wrong? I followed the install to its every detail. :lost:

[swguy]

As a reminder, all my contributions have extensive help where common installation problems are discussed. Decostyle, your problem is discussed in FAQ number 5.

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca...ether.html#faq

[Decostyle]

Thanks for the reminder Swguy. I installed Better Together awhile back then forgot about it, and installed some more modules on top of that. So I wasn't entirely sure if the problem was because of the additional modules or not.

After reading through your help article... am I correct to think that if I have Better Together set up correctly using parent categories, if the customer buys from a linked category, they will still get the discounts?

As a reminder, all my contributions have extensive help where common installation problems are discussed. Decostyle, your problem is discussed in FAQ number 5.

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca...ether.html#faq

[swguy]

You must refer to the parent category (not the linked category) in your add_ statement. And be careful about using the Marketing text - see the notes in the page I gave you for ideas on how to do this.

[ifss]

Hi there,
Just read the posts and have used my "search tool" in Chrome, but I couldn't see an answer.

Can this be used, or altered to allow for previous orders.

The situation:
My customers have purchased (A) over a 2yr period. We are now upgrading the product to version (B), we want our existing customers (A) to be able to purchase (B) at a discounted price.
A = $20
B = $30
Customers of (A) need only pay $10 for (B)

We can do a work around, mail out to the customers a coupon code (run an SQL Report then mail merge) with a discount, however it runs the risk of abuse, even with safeguards in place (limited number, limited use etc).

However I like this module and have use of it down the track and over the next few months we will be doing this for a number of our products.

Thank you.

v1.51

[swguy]

No, it doesn't take into account historical purchases, only the current purchase.