Better Together Contribution Support Thread

This configuration

$this->add_cat_to_cat(5, 2, "$", 150);

reduces the order total by $150 if an item from category 5 and an item from category 2 are in the cart. It has no idea that your business is newly started.

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This is only relevant to people who use the One to Many feature. If you don't, please ignore this post.

Please note that if you use the One to Many configuration, you should NOT be doing Buy one Get one offers on identical items (because the one to many behavior will cause your discount to double). So don't do things like

$this->add_prod_to_prod(17, 17, "%", 50); // Buy one product 17, get another product 17 at half off

if you want to use One to Many; make the discounted item different from the condition item.

swguy:

Question 1: see PM.
Question 2: The cross sell display uses the columnar display template; perhaps you have customized that?

Mine also stack vertically, not in a 3x horizontal grid. I didn't customize anything. What might be the problem?

Better Together works fine in Zen Cart 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.

Please I need an info :

Can this module link all products from an entire category to a product ( or more products) from another category ?

Example: I have Watches category and Boxes category. If you buy a watch you can choose a free box from category boxes. I would like to display this option on watch product detail page.

You can do cat to prod or cat to cat, but not cat to multiple prods with a single statement (of course you could have multiple cat to prod statements).

If I can have cat to cat ( boxes are in a category ) I can't have let's say Watch + (choose: box1 or box2 or box3 for free ) ?

thx

That is correct - you cannot do that with Better Together. See you PM.

Not sure if this was answered somewhere in this thread, but there's 4 pages so I don't know that I'm going to look through all of that. ANd this is probably a really dumb question, but where exactly am I supposed to put the code to create a BOGO 50% sale? And exactly which code am I supposed to be using? I tried this:

$this->add_cat_to_cat(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,"%", 50)

but it doesn't work. I'm sure I'm having a brain fart, but I don't know exactly what to do. Help please! :blush:

add cat to cat has 4 parameters. So if you want to have a Buy one, get one 1/2 off sale on cat 1, do

$this->add_cat_to_cat(1,1,"%", 50);

For cat 2, do

$this->add_cat_to_cat(2,2,"%", 50);

etc.

I want to have a BOGO 50% on everything no matter what category it's in. And I have 7 categories, do I need to specify each category seperately or is there a function that includes everything? Also, I'm not sure where I should be putting the code.

OK, I realize NOW you can't see the discount until the 2nd page of checkout, but it's not doing what I want. The discount that I'm seeing is 50% off the total cart. I want 50% off a 2nd item. As an example I have 2 items from different categories. I want the item with the cheaper price to be discounted. Here's a link to my site so you can see what's happening if necessary. Thanks for your help! :D

http://thecuterie.com/

Better Together does discount the least expensive item in the pair, not the entire cart. See your PM for other ideas.

This was originally posted in 'Built-in Shipping and Payment modules' but kobra suggested I move it here.

I am on ZC 1.5.4 using the Better Together 2.5.1 mod and the built-in ZC Authorize.net (AIM) payment module.

I have a Better Together deal defined so if a customer purchases item A, they receive a $1.00 discount off as many of item B as they want to purchase. Recently, a customer purchased item A and 10 of item B which should have given a total discount of 10x$1.00=$10.00. The appropriate discount was reflected in the shopping cart and on the completed order in ZC, but the amount charged to the customer's credit card did not reflect the discount. My order total modules are shown below. I checked my error logs and found nothing there that indicated a problem. What could be causing this error?

One more key detail. The error occurred with the first (and only) customer who used the coupon. This isn't something that worked previously, but now doesn't.

What coupon would that be?
What does the second sentence of your last post mean? You surely mistyped something.
Can you reproduce this problem? I have never heard of an interoperability issue between Better Together and AIM.

The coupon with the issue is described in my previous post (#638). I did call it a 'deal' in that post, though, which is the correct term. :smile:

swguy:

What does the second sentence of your last post mean? You surely mistyped something.

I don't think I mistyped anything (except calling the BT deal a 'coupon'). The second sentence:

JeffLC:

The error occurred with the first (and only) customer who used the coupon.
means only one customer has used the coupon (aka deal), and the credit card charge didn't match the order total. No customers have used it since, though I used it during my testing.

If you're referring to the third sentence:

JeffLC:

This isn't something that worked previously, but now doesn't.

I've seen many posts which say something like "everything has been working fine for several months then all of a sudden 'xxx' stopped working." In this case, the discount has never worked correctly. The issue appeared the first time someone used it. I have reproduced the problem with each of the items which are entitled to a discount and it occurs with any quantity of the discounted items.

In my testing, however, I also discovered the problem occurs with other coupons, such as one I created for free shipping. Because of this and your reply about not hearing of issues between Better Together and AIM, I don't think it is an issue with Better Together. I will move this back to the thread where I originally posted the problem.

Hello,

I'd like to ask if I can use this for a "buy 2 get 1 free" within the same category?

Thanks!

No. Better Together deals with pairs of items only.