Salemaker Not applying to all products

v1.3.8 had bugs in it causing issues once of which was SaleMaker and not managing it as designed ...

That it the only thing I can think of that is causing this issue to work on her site when it should not and other issues can compound there using the old, out dated code of v1.3.8 with all of the bugs and security issues in it ...

SO, I guess my other question still stands, why do all the categories show under SaleMaker if clicking on them doesn't do anything?

I am not fully understanding your question ...

If you mean why when you create a Sale that you can see all Categories as possible choices ... it is because you get to choose what Category you want on Sale ...

But if I choose a category that is anything other than the Designers names that are set up as the master, it doesn't work.

Don't chose that Category then ...

Sale Maker is made so you can pick any Categories that you want to put on Sale ...

You make the choice of which ones ...

The Rule is, then apply the Sale to the chosen Category on the condition the Product is using that Category as its master_categories_id ...

There is no way for the code to "know" what you are "thinking" when you build Sales ...

I guess I'm confused still. All of my designers are set up as master categories. All of the different types of products are set up as linked categories. It is a digital scrapbook store. So, we have categories like digital kits, templates, word art, babies, children, teens, Summer, Thanksgiving, just to name a few. They are all just regular categories.

If I want to do a sale on everything in the store from every designer that is a word art, if I go to SaleMaker and click the Word Art category box, the sale doesn't work.

What am I missing here?

K, I don't know if this helps at all or if you can even see this. This is what my sales screen looks like (I cut out and edited it so it isn't so long) I have my sale set up for all Commercial Use products to be on sale, but none of them are showing up on sale in the store. From our previous conversation, I believe that is because Commercial Use products is not a master category, just a linked category, down further you can see the Manufacturers all listed and they are all set up as master categories, but I don't want their whole stores on sale, just the Commercial Use products of all manufacturers. Is this possible?

If you were to put a designer category on Sale, then the Sale would show in whatever Category it appears in as that is the master_categories_id ...

If you put on of the other Categories on Sale, it would not show as it is not the master_categories_id ...

If you wanted any Product in a Category like Thanksgiving on Sale, you would need to change the master_categories_id for those Products to use the Thanksgiving Category as its master_categories_id ... after the Sale, you could then change the master_categories_id back to the specific designers Category ...

THANK YOU !! ! This helped me tremendously ! I guess it pays to look at everything on the Products to Multiple Categories Link Manager page, and not just the top part ! LOL
Thanks again aussiesapphire ! :clap:

aussiesapphire:

I had this problem also with sale price applying to some products and not others (seemingly randomly). As Ajeh has said a number of times through this thread, it turned out the problem was caused because some products had no master category id. Not sure why, perhaps something to do with an easy populate upload.

For me, the easiest way to fix was to go to the multiple category link manager (where you can link a product to more than one category - accessed when you copy a product). Right at the bottom of this screen is an option to reset the master category id for all products in that category. Once I did this for each category that I wanted to put on sale, problem solved.

cheers
Leah

The easiest way to fix the salemaker is to go to the store manager, and click the reset button for the Master categories ID. If your products are loaded by an IT company such as mine are, your it guy may have become lazy and just never loaded the master category id, or somehow, the field did not populate correctly. This will reset, and populate it so that zen "sees" the product again, and can apply a sale to those items.

It does work on 1.5.1, and on older versions. I just did this because an entire supplier's products would not launch sales applied to the whole store, and the other 2 supplier's merchandise already had the ability to have the sales added.

I was going nuts trying to figure this out, and finally figured it out. I found a solution online, and it worked great..

Good Luck.. Don't let the inventory companies employees that have sales sites trick you.. Look in the forums, you will eventually find a solution!:D

Sorry to bring up an old thread but my store isn't doing this right either and I have reset the master categories. It shows the correct price until added to cart! I am clueless as to what is happening. Store url is www..bootsandmore..net

Do you have some specific products_id that are doing this?

If you edit the product(s) ...

what are their prices?

what shows as master_categories_id

are they on sale?

If you go to phpMyAdmin and brows the table:
products

and search for these products_id what categories_id come up on them?

it's sporadic it works on the boots but not the Carhartt clothing. If you'll look at the store (link above) you'll see what I mean. Carhartt shows right price but with attributes as 3XL being $2 extra It doesn't carry over it works with attributes that do not have a price added to them.

Sale maker should be simple to use. Zen cart is easy to use but SaleMaker has lost us sales with this new sale we are having.

What are your settings on SaleMaker for Carhartt Shirts category?

$2.00 of shirts and a one time fee applied to 3XL

What are your specific settings on SaleMaker?

I am assuming the Products are Priced as displayed and not marked Price by Attribute ...

Could you give some specific products_id and what the specific prices are on the Attributes?

Sale is over with now so no harm done. Next one I will post and give more specifics. Thanks though.

I can't get the sale discount to be applied to all the attributes. I have one item that's priced higher on the larger sizes, and it isn't being discounted. All the smaller sizes are being discounted properly but not the larger ones that are higher priced. The attributes are set up correctly as far as I'm able to tell, since it's been working all along. Customers have been able to choose the size they wanted and were charged the correct price.

I've read through all the posts here and don't see anything that pertains to my situation. The product isn't linked.

Zen 1.55f condition causing two problems:

1 - **Admin **is unable to search for products_model: VG-GP300-100, VG-GP300-254 however it **does **return VG-GP300-099

2 -** Live site **is not displaying SaleMaker discounts on the product category/group for Series 300 beyond 99+ products (300 products in category)

Solution:
Reset Master Categories ID with Tools > Store Manager

More details...
Site has multiple categories, sub-categories and a lot of products.

SaleMaker was applied to one of the top categories - 300 Series.

SaleMaker discount is applied to 0 - 99 products in the category but NOT applied to the 100th product.

It happens that the products_model lines up the problem in the last digit series. This was helpful in proving a database problem as the **admin search **would NOT find the product but WOULD find the product on the live site search AND the product could be found when drilling down through the admin category product listing.

Somehow some of the products created at various dates and times in the past 2 years, moved changed etc by the client appear to have lost their way in the database causing the corruption.

Resetting the Master Categories ID corrected the problem for now.

Update, research has found that Easy Populate has been adding new products with corrupt master category ID data. SaleMaker and the Admin search are now running correctly after resetting the ID's.