Better Together Contribution Support Thread

swguy:

Better Together pairs up items. Once an item is used in a pairing, it's not available for further discounting.

swguy which mod allows for a 5% discount off all other items in a category or group once you have purchased the first item. I wanted to offer 5% off all items in a category once one particular item is purchased for example.
Regards

MG

No coupons are involved. If they buy the products you have specified as "better together," they get the discount you specify in the setup() function.

We have several orders in which the coupon (from the coupon mod for a prize or something or promotional) was applied and then they got the better together discount on top of that. Do we have our order total module sort wrong? Better Together was at 292 in the sort.

swguy:

No coupons are involved. If they buy the products you have specified as "better together," they get the discount you specify in the setup() function.

KSoup, I'm not sure what you're asking here. You can change the sort order, but the discounting modules don't know about each other, so discounts are cumulative.

MikeyG response by PM.

Thanks!! That answered my question... we just have to make sure a coupon doesn't include an item that may be discounted by better together. :)

Your time is appreciated.

swguy:

KSoup, I'm not sure what you're asking here. You can change the sort order, but the discounting modules don't know about each other, so discounts are cumulative.

MikeyG response by PM.

Hi Scott,

I seem to be in a minority with regards to this not adding up properly so I am sure it is something I am doing wrong.

When the cart doesn't include the better together discount it adds up correctly, when it does include a BT discount the VAT is wrong?

The settings:
Include Tax: True
Re-calculate Tax: None

Using $this->add_cat_to_cat(67, 68, "%", 20);

The cart prices are displayed including VAT. Site is UK (if that makes a difference)

So have I missed something obvious?

With these settings, you're grossing up the discount to include the VAT. The VAT is not recomputed.

But when I set Re-calculate Tax to standard this happens:

Sub-Total: £9,156.93

Table Rate (Best Way): £6.46

Better Together Discount: -£13.20

VAT: £1,363.80 Should be £1362.79

Total: £9,156.93 Should be £9150.19

Sit tight - tax computation changes coming in 1.3.8; I will align my software to these algorithms which were coded by a genuine UK native. (Thank you, Wilt!)

An issue has been reported running Better Together against Zen Cart 1.3.8.

I will release a new version later on; for now, simply replace

includes/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php

with this file. This is only required for 1.3.8.

Thanks to Rufus for reporting this problem.
Scott

Hi Scott,

Have these changes now been implemented in 1.38 - if so I will move up from 1.37

Best regards

Javier

Better Together is a contribution, so it's maintained separately from the core code of Zen Cart. When you upgrade to 1.3.8, you need to grab those fixes. At some point I'll release another version that contains those fixes, but for now, you need to get that file.

I was referring to message 129 on the previous page. Does 1.3.8 solve the VAT computation issue? If so, I will upgrade now, otherwise I will wait a wee while. Or is it code in your contribution that only works with 1.3.8 not 1.3.7?

Regards,

Javier.

There are VAT fixes in Zen Cart 1.3.8 (in group discounts, for example) If these fixes prove acceptable to the majority of VAT liable shopkeepers, I will migrate this logic to my discounting contributions and modules (Quantity Discounts, Better Together, etc.)

Better Together 1.6 is now available in the downloads area; this version includes the interoperability changes required by Zen Cart 1.3.8. No other changes are included in this release.

Can this be moded to look more like Amazon.com's buy together function as in Images instead of text?

That's on my list of things to do.

Any solution to having better together offers but only if people enter a coupon code? Of is there a better solution to this?

I want to offer people coupon vouchers that would then give them access to an offer of buy product a and get product b 30% off etc...

Thanks

Response by PM.

ctcentralinfo:

Can this be moded to look more like Amazon.com's buy together function as in Images instead of text?

Using better together with the buy it now mod show get me close at this point right?
I guess I could get someone to add the image links to it.