I think Jacopo improved the manual promotions things recently, might pay to check the commit logs from the past week and also the dev list. Not sure about the management thing but it should be pretty easy to create a report that pulls up the manual promos and who gave them out.
Regards Scott On 26/10/2007, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > suggestion: > have the promotions for a product show and use a check box to apply. > setup of a max discount per order that is based on the gross profit of > the order. this would allow the OE personnel to select discount but > allow management to keep a certain profit margin. > this would be calculated on the fly as the OE adds and deletes Items > from the order. > > > Dave Tenerowicz sent the following on 10/25/2007 4:29 PM: > > We have an OfBiz client who wants to allow special pricing for products > > - available only at the order takers discretion. This does not apply to > > orders received via the web which will use standard pricing. > > > > 1) One way to handle this would be to create multiple marketing packages > > with the special price as the default price, and allow the OE person to > > select one of these manually, if they wish. This would be cumbersome, > > but workable. > > > > 2) Another way would be to use manual promotions, to provide a discount > > for the product or perhaps all the products in the category (simpler > > from a rule maintenance perspective). The OE person would then select > > and run the promotion manually. To me this seems a better approach. > > > > In either case, management wants to ensure that they can track how many > > of these discounts are given and who gave them - so they can exert some > > management control over excessive discounting. > > > > Is there any better way to accomplish their objective- both in terms of > > ease of use and management oversight? > > >
