Salemaker applied discount only to disabled products?

I set up a sale using Salesmaker, and after selecting some categories, and ensure they were selected and updated, I inserted the sale.

The problem is I noticed only products that are disabled because the stock is 0 are the ones that receive the sale discount while the others are not updated ...

I have daily updates of each product status, does this affect how salemaker is applied? How can I ensure new products in the relevant category are applied the same sale discount?

As I didn't receive any responses I totally deleted the Sale, and started from scratch this time making 3 separate Sales, but even then I run into a new problem, as in my notebooks category even though it's labeled 0.15%, when I list the products some had the discount while others don't?

Like this:

Categories / Products - Desktops & Laptops > Tablets > Android based

ID Categories / Products Model Price/Special/Sale Quantity Status Sort Action
56112 Preview 10" Android Tablet DHMITRAVELER10 $236.01 0 Status - Disabled 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
58157 Preview 10.1" Galaxy Tab 16GB DHGTP7510MAYXAB $581.80 0 Status - Disabled 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
58190 Preview 10.1" Galaxy Tab 32GB DHGTP7510MAVXAB $668.25 25 Status - Enabled 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
55686 Preview 10.1" MID w/Android OS TS 4GB DHMID10244G $314.80 386 **Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
51768 Preview 7" 2GB Tablet & Color eReader DHR70E200 $176.91 18 **Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
52276 Preview 7" MID w/Android OS 4GB DHMID70244G $199.07 761 ** Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
38812 Preview 7" Mobile Internet Device DHEGLIDE $191.68
Sale: $162.93
Save: 15% off 9 **Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
56810 Preview 7" Mobile Internet Device 4GB DHMID70164G $171.98 453 Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
58872 Preview 7" Mobile Internet Device 4GB DHMID71254G $191.68 70 Status - Enabled ** 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute FeaturesProducts Price Manager Meta Tags Undefined
49182 Preview 7" Mobile Internet Device 4GB DHMID70154G $169.00
Sale: $143.65
Save: 15% off 0 Status - Disabled 0 Edit Delete Move Copy toAttribute Features

As you see from above some products are listed with a 15% Sale, but this was applied to the whole category, so I don't understand why some products don't have it... I checked out the script that generates this, and the table, salesmaker, and in there, is just a listing of the category ids, that supposed to have this applied. However even though that is set, for some reason is not applied to all the products under that parent. :frusty:

Check the Product's master_categories_id ...

The Product's master_categories_id must belong to the Category that is on Sale ...

What you mean by master_categories_id, the parent_id?
or the main category id?

Products "belong" to a Category ... this is the immediate Category that the Product is in ...

The Categories all have categories_id ...

Products use the categories_id as their master_categories_id which says what Category "owns" the Product ...

Sale Maker uses this master_categories_id to determine what Products belong to the Categories on Sale ...

If you use "Linked Products", only 1 Category can "own" the Product ... the Category that "owns" the Product is the one used for the master_categories_id ...

If you place a Category on Sale with SaleMaker, but the Product uses a different categories_id for its master_categories_id then that Product will NOT be on Sale, based on the SaleMaker Sale ...

Only the Products using that Category as their master_categories_id will be on Sale ...

ok I fixed it!

I had to RESET all master categories ids and voila, it worked!
I had a duplicate problem(many subcategories were duplicated and had products), so I had to MANUALLY assign products to a single category id, and then also manually delete the duplicate or duplicates of that category, once all products have been moved. I found this to be faster using direct SQL commands, and then used the interface to delete the categories from the admin.

Thanks for the update that you have this working now and for posting your solution to help out others ... :smile: