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Dave Tenerowicz sent the following on 10/26/2007 1:33 PM: > I took a look, and this looks like a valuable improvement for > individual orders created from the cart. > > Unfortunately, we also need to apply this sort of function to shopping > lists. The client basically offers discretionary discounts to customers > with existing auto re-orders to retain their business. (The client calls > to cancel a recurring order, and the OE person offers a discounted price > as an incentive to remain on the program). So they basically discount > the price on every subsequent order instance (created from the > shoppingList). Can anyone suggest a way we could get this to work via > configuration (promos, store settings etc) or do we just have the choice > of creating a bunch of marketing packages or modifying code? > > -Dave > > > > Scott Gray wrote: >> 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? >>>> >>>> >> >> >
