Hi, Thanks for responding.
The discounts system does work, but under some circumstances it is not very > intuitive. > You can say that again. First thing, what do you mean by "coupon field is inactive?" For a discount > to be applied to anything, this means that the user must enter a > Discount/coupon code at checkout. Otherwise no discount will be applied. > Isn't the idea of auto-discounts precisely that the customer would not have to use a coupon code? > The second tricky thing is that automatic discounts are only applied > automatically (i.e the discount code field is filled in automatically in > the default checkout form template) if the discount is for all items in > your store. Ouch. I am trying to apply to one category (and children). > The other thing an automatic discount does, regardless of what products it > applies to, is to display a message on all the pages of the discounted > products saying something like: "you can get a discount on this product if > you enter the code 'discount-code' at checkout'. This is a decent > behaviour, I guess. > Do you know what template tag is used to show such a message? > The third thing about discounts is that, by default (as far as I know) the > customer can apply only one discount at a time via the discount code field > at checkout > > Oh and you can't really have more than one automatic discount going on at > the same time. If I understand correctly Satchmo will just choose one of > the discounts to make automatic. > > To summarize, yes the discounts work, but you gotta play within certain > constraints ... and careful not to remove the necessary code from the > templates. If there aren't efforts to improve this part of Satchmo already, > there probably will be at some point soon. > Sounds terrible, to be honest, and can only deal with the most trivial of use cases in the e-commerce world. I wish I'd investigated this issue further before using Satchmo (not the first time I've said that). Thanks for your help though. > > On Monday, 3 June 2013 04:52:44 UTC-4, Paul Walsh wrote: >> >> I am trying to setup what should be a trivial discount: >> >> 1. 25% off all items in a category >> >> 2. If an item already has a reduced price, *don't* apply the discount. >> (bonus - the detect if the existing reduced price is less than 25%, reduce >> it too) >> >> But, I honestly can't even get Satchmo's Discounts to work. Not the >> normal ones, and not the auto ones. >> >> I am basically following this: >> >> http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/discounts.html >> >> - I setup a new 25% discount, for category "books" >> - I have auto discount on, and the coupon field is inactive >> >> My book pages already use the discount price filter - that is how, when >> we have reduced prices, I show a comparison of the higher price and a lower >> price, per item. >> >> I expect to see the discount price, 25% off the main price, showing via >> the discount filter. It does not - discount price still returns my normal >> price. >> >> >> >> Satchmo's built-in discount doesn't detect this... or, can it? >> >> Also, as a bonus, I'd actually like on those items with an already >> reduced price, to >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
