Sale on product priced by attributes

Hi, I have a cart where all of the products are priced by attributes (they are ordered in specified quantities and we want to show the pricing for the lowest quantity as the display price). In any event, I would like to apply a 15% off sale to one category of products. When using the Salemaker, the discount shows in the display price, but does not apply to any of the attributes. However, if I put the product on special for 15% off, everything is discounted properly. Is there a way to apply a special to an entire category of products, or should I be using the Salemaker and I am just doing something wrong? As I understood it, the Specials were for specific products, while the Salemaker was to apply a discount to an entire category or catalog of products, but I thought that they applied the pricing the same. Perhaps I am incorrect, or am just missing something. If anyone would like to see examples, I would be happy to PM you some links. The store isn't live yet, so I don't want to post up links in a public forum at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help!

Do your Products all have a master_categories_id set in the products table of your database?

Do these match the Category that your have set on sale?

How are you specifically setting the Sale in Sale Maker?

Are you manually adding your Products or importing them?

What version of Zen Cart are you using?

Clean install or an upgrade? If an upgrade what version did you upgrade from and how?

Hi Ajeh,

Thank you very much for your reply. All of the products do have a master category, and the master category matches the one that the sale was set for. To set the sale, I went to the Salemaker, set a 15 percent discount, selected an expiration date, and then selected the category that I wanted the sale to apply to. Like I said, the sale was properly applied to the display price, but not to the attribute pricing on the product info or in the cart.

All of the products were manually added, and the shop is running ZC 1.3.5, upgraded from 1.3.0.1. I upgraded by following the included directions. There aren't a lot of overridden files, but I ran a diff utility on all of them and manually applied the changes into a new directory. I then duplicated the database and ran the upgrade on the new one. There were no problems at all with the upgrade, and everything ran smoothly. I hope that is enough info, and if you can provide any help for me, it would be most appreciated. Thanks!

To be a bit more specific ... when you look at Sale Maker and select the Sale there is a panel to the right with the settings ...

What do your's read?

Hi Ajeh, thanks for writing back. Here is the info:

Deduction: 15.0000 Percent
Pricerange: $0.00 to $0.00
Specials Condition: Ignore Specials Price - Apply to Product Price and Replace Special

Starts: Immediately
Expires: 10/31/2006

On the condition, try using:
Apply SaleDeduction to Specials Price - Otherwise Apply to Price

Thank you so much, that did the trick! For future reference, is there a reason that it only works for that condition?

Actually ... I am going to be diving into that code as for a long time now, SaleMaker and Attributes have not been friends as testing, like you has been done and the natural choice of the first type has failed ...

I was testing with the demo products and had a sudden light bulb go off that I have demo data specifically for Priced by Attribute with a Sale via SaleMaker and then could not reproduce the Sale ... :eek:

After fooling with it I finally saw that this only worked on the Priced by Attribute with that selection made ... which is great ... but now I am going to really have to break down the whys and hows of it as I don't like it ... and neither does the rest of the Team ...

I am moving this to Bug Reports for furture rework on the issue ...

Thanks for the help in breaking this down and the report that this setting also worked for you ... :smile:

Hi Ajeh, thanks so much for all of your help! I wasn't sure if I wasn't understanding it correctly, or if it should have worked as I expected. Glad to see that it works with that selection, as that will be just fine for my purposes, and I'm happy that I could help out in testing the cart. If I run across anything else that doesn't seem quite right, I'll be sure to pass it along. :)

I would greatly appreciate it if you run into issues if you can let us know ... :smile: