Better Together Contribution Support Thread

If you have purchased both items, and turned on better together in your admin panel and you're still not seeing a discount on the second page of checkout, you've installed it incorrectly.

yes, i am aware somewhere has been installed incorrectly.

but i have followed every steps so far as stated in the readme, including your online sites one.

what do u think will most likely to be the problems ?

Hey all

so from what i've read there is no current way to take the discounted price and then apply shipping?

i'm having the same problem for example:

users buy 2 items on buy one get one free, both items cost £10 and free shipping is £20.

so these people are getting free shipping because the delivery charge is applied pre discount.

is it just a question of swapping two lines round or a much bigger fix?

Did search.... but seems that the phrase "better together" is "too common"

we would like to have a cross marketing

where if you buy two related items together,
there is 20% taken off the total....

Installed better together in my test store....
module shows as installed.....

edited line of code in ot_better_together.php to read

$this->add_cat_to_cat(3, 4, "%", 20);

3 and 4 are the master catagories.....

But when the items are added to the cart and checkout begins,... nothing happens...

What am I missing?

Now.... We are on an older version of Zen Cart 1.3.0.2

Yes...I know.... working on the upgrade...but that is a bit down the road....

could the old version be the problem?

Doing more reading and now not sure if better together can even do what we want........

Here is what we are looking for....

if you buy a product from catagory 3... it is regular price

if you buy a product from catagory 4... it is regular price...

but if you buy any combo of products one from each catagory, we take 20% off the total of the BOTH... not just one....

Will better together do this? Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!!

Thanks for all of your awesome mods swguy!!!

I am trying to add a $ discount on products, giving a discount of 30 cents. I have it as:

$this->add_cat_to_cat(6_7, 6_59, "$", .30);

but it gives an error, it seems to not like the .30. How do I go about adding it correctly?

Thanks again !!

Matt

Just use the actual parent category numbers:

$this->add_cat_to_cat(7, 59, "$", .30);

Scott

lankeeyankee:

Thanks for all of your awesome mods swguy!!!

I am trying to add a $ discount on products, giving a discount of 30 cents. I have it as:

$this->add_cat_to_cat(6_7, 6_59, "$", .30);

but it gives an error, it seems to not like the .30. How do I go about adding it correctly?

Thanks again !!

Matt

Ah, never mind. it works with 30 cents, I found that the error is having cats like 6_7 instead of just 7. But, it doesn't seem to want to work with sub cats. For instance, if I have category 6_7_8 and 6_7_9 and want to do an add_cat_to_cat for both with cat 6_59, it won't work with using (7, 59, "%", 10) and I have to put in both sub cats, is that correct or am I missing something?

Thanks again!!

Better Together uses parent categories only.

swguy:

Better Together uses parent categories only.

Thanks for the reply!

Is it possible to alter the code so that subcats are included? The problem for me is that it can get very crowded with the display on the product info page if I have to link individual subcats to other cats or products. So, if the higher cat has 8 subcats, instead of 1 link on the product info page there will be 8. If it's possible, what would it take to do it?

Thanks!

Matt

Hi There.

I have the latest release of ZenCart and the latest release of Better Together - I'm just retarded.

I have a client that wants the following:

Buy one item - get the second SAME item at 10% off.

Now - I've read where to do this - but they have 545 items so far... do I really have to go through all of this 545 times?

  $this->add_prod_to_prod(1,1,"%", 10); 

Thanks for you help!

Yes, you do. But the good news is - computers are very good at automating tasks like this. :)

function setup() {
for ($i = 1; $i <= 545; $i++) {
$this->add_prod_to_prod($i,$i,"%", 10);
}
}

you're the man. that worked brilliantly. geesh.. i need to go back to school for programming... i just make it look pretty.. Thanks a million!

New Problem?

Using "Better Together" and a checkout Discount Coupon causes an error in the Order Total. Seems to be consistent at $.25 based on a limited test of various products.

Here is the setup.

$this->add_prod_to_prod(260,513,"%", 100);

1 x "Paper Shaper" Paper Punch: $2.99
1 x Snips and Snails Deluxe Scrapbook $19.99
Sub-Total: $22.98

Buy-Together Discount: -$2.99
Table Rate (3.31lbs) (Best Way): $9.95
Discount Coupon: rf10 : -$1.97
Total: $27.72
(should be $27.97)

The net prices of the two items are based on SaleMaker discounts from a retail prices of $3.99 and $24.99 respectively if that matters.

Zcart 1.3.8, "Quick and Easy Checkout" also installed.

Correction to original post in red...

New Problem?

Using "Better Together" and a checkout Discount Coupon causes an error in the Order Total. Seems to be consistent at $.25 based on a limited test of various products.

Here is the setup.

$this->add_prod_to_prod(260,513,"%", 100);

1 x "Paper Shaper" Paper Punch: $2.99
1 x Snips and Snails Deluxe Scrapbook $19.99
Sub-Total: $22.98

Buy-Together Discount: -$2.99
Table Rate (3.31lbs) (Best Way): $9.95
Discount Coupon: rf10 : -$1.97
Total: $27.72
(should be $27.97)

The net price of the $2.99 item is a Special price, and the price of the $19.99 item is based on a 20% off Salemaker discount if that matters.

Zcart 1.3.8, "Quick and Easy Checkout" also installed.

• Test them both separately to be sure they work independently.
• check the settings in admin/modules/order total for both to be sure they agree.
• check them without quick & easy checkout.

Okay... picky client.

Now instead of Buy 1 item Get the second of the same item 10% off.. they want it.. buy 1 item get ANY additional of the same item 10% off... so if they were to purchase 5 of the same item, they would get 4 of them at 10% off... sorry, it sounds so confusing to me.. so here:

Original Item: $10
SAME ITEM #2: $9
SAME ITEM #3: $9
SAME ITEM #4: $9
SAME ITEM #5: $9
TOTAL DISCOUNT: $4
TOTAL OWED: $46

Is this doable through Better Together?

Thanks!

notobella:

Is this doable through Better Together?

No. Better Together is "Buy A, get B at a discount."

Scott, I have Better Together installed but I see now that I can't use this to discount subcategory to subcategory. Do any of your discount modules allow this or can the code for BT be modified to do this?

Better Together can do subcategory to subcategory as long as both are parents of categories (not other subcategories). In other words, it does parent categories only. If you want to know about my other stuff, please email me directly.