Better Together Contribution Support Thread

Thanks - I'll have a good read through of everything. Guess I was trying to blaze through this process just a bit too fast!

adam

I have read through this thread and read the Read Me file, but I still do not know in which file the promotions are set up. I'm considering adding this contribution to a friends cart, but I'm not sure if setting up the promotions is going to be too intensive for them.

From a usability standpoint, for someone that isn't familiar w/ the inner workings of Zen, how friendly is this mod?

TIA
Audra

audradh:

I have read through this thread and read the Read Me file, but I still do not know in which file the promotions are set up.
The setup() function is in the file includes/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php. If you go to my web page, lots of examples of how the setup() function might be coded are provided. In addition, many other common questions are answered.

The readme file in the contribution is only updated when I release the contribution (which is once in a blue moon now), but the web page is updated constantly as I see patterns in the questions that people ask. That's why the readme file points you to the web page "for more information" (see line 13).

From a usability standpoint, for someone that isn't familiar w/ the inner workings of Zen, how friendly is this mod?
I can't answer that question for you. This mod has been downloaded thousands of times. Some people like it, others don't. No one solution is ideal for anyone.

Better Together is a highly configurable, very feature rich system. That's the upside. The downside is that it's not trivial to use. If it makes you feel better, even I need to read the documentation again before configuring it for clients. Sometimes I even flub it up - and I wrote the code.

Good luck,
Scott

Hey thanks Scott, that's just what I was looking for:yes: Sounds like a great mod, but maybe something I will want to set up for them.

Hi Scott,

My apologies - I just realized that I somehow had a copy of version 1.0 (!) of Better Together... not the latest version 1.6. I was following instructions for the new version but actually installing the old version... no wonder it didn't work!

MUCH easier to install with only three files, not a gazillion, BTW.

And it appears in my ZC admin right away, just as advertised!

Thanks for your patience with this slightly clueless newbie.

Adam

Scott,

Will your Big Upsell module display my Better Together discounts? I don't have a need for Big Spender or Big Chooser just yet.

Response by PM.

Hi!

I have two items in my client's Zen Cart - one is a book and one is a class.

I have Better Together set up and it works beautifully - if you take a class, you get a discount on the book.

However, there's a problem. If you order them together, you get the book AT the class - thus, no shipping required!

Is there a way to handle this automatically with Better Together? I could have two versions of the book listed, one "with class" and one "without class", and only charge shipping on the latter, but it would be great if it could be done less awkwardly.

Thanks!
Adam

Better Together doesn't do this sort of thing. I would add code to your shipping module to handle this situation or make the book free shipping.

OK - I'll figure out another solution. Thanks!

Hello Scott,

Wondered what might be causing repeated marketing links such as here:-

http://www.thegemtree.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=11011

I defined one discount link, but it repeats. I figure I have done something on my setup. Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Heathenmagic:smile:

I've never seen that before. I would get a fresh copy of tpl_product_info_display.php and a fresh copy of the contrib in case you've overwritten something accidentally.

Hello Scott,

Major whoops, please forgive me, my bad. Not sure how the duplicate line got into the file, must have had a mad moment

Thanks for getting back to me.

Someone asked me the other day how to start, stop or start and stop Better Together discounts on a particular date; detailed instructions have been posted here:

http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_timing_discounts.html

Scott

Hi,
have read the readme.txt, your webpage and all that, installed better together as told, but I got a problem. Do I have to do some changes in the modules.php? From the admin-folder. I get this message when I have installed:

Warning: include(/home/3/s/www/includes/languages/norwegian/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/3/s/www/admin/modules.php on line 173

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/3/s/www/includes/languages/norwegian/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/3/s/www/admin/modules.php on line 173

I'm really stuck with this, and have read the support thread without finding an answer :(

Besides, I like your work, keep up the good work :cool:

You need to create the language file for norwegian.

Copy

/home/3/s/www/includes/languages/english/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php

to

/home/3/s/www/includes/languages/norwegian/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php

Good luck,
Scott

Hello,

I was hoping you could help me out. I've been using Better Together for a few months now and it has worked wonderfully. For the past few weeks though, the BT discount has not been applied to orders that qualify. Nothing to my knowledge has changed in our shop and the BT promotional text is still being displayed on items in our store... the discounts just do not get added to the totals anymore.

So far, I have tried uninstalling BT and reinstalling. Uninstalling and upgrading to a newer version and reinstalling. Uninstalling and deleting all files and than reinstalling and so fourth. Nothing seems to work. :(

Any ideas what could make BT stop working with order totals?

Best,
Rocco

dont know what i did, but i managed to fit it! :flex:

i do have one more question though, is it possible to do a discount like this?:

buy X get product made by manufacturer Y for 10% off

Also, how would I go about making all items "buy one get the second at a discount?"

There's no global command for 2 for 1, you'd have to do each one.

There's no support for manufacturers, just products and categories.

2 hours! 2 hours and still I can't get this working!

I have been over and over and over the install instructions which are stupidly easy.
I have checked, double checked and even triple cheked everything over and over again but still nothing.

I am using:
zc 1.3.8a
PHP Version: 5.2.2 (Zend: 2.2.0)

The only thing I can thin of is that I am not setting the parameters correctly.

I have the store set up like this:

Cat 1
-- sub cat 1a
-- subsub cat 1b
-- products

Cat 2
-- sub cat 2a
-- subcat 2b
-- subcat 2c
-- products

I want to specify -

Cat 1 - buy 2 get 3rd half price
I tried $this->add_cat_to_cat(1b, 1b, "%", 100);

Cat 2 - Buy 5 get 1 free
$this->add_fiveforone_cat(2c);

Is this correct? If not, help?

Thanks in advance.