I have added a shopwide catalog price rule of 20% on all products. This seems to work. However, for some reason after a re-index I have to reset this price rule time and time again. As most of my shop runs with automatic imports and cron jobs - I would somehow like to hardcode this rule in. So I don't need to reset the rule every time.
Also the fact that my price is tagged as special price is something I would like to get rid of. The price is just the initial price minus 20%. This is not a special offer - it's just the price how I want to offer it to my customers.
Up till now I haven't found a solution to my problem - or where to start. Suggestions would very welcome!
Use shopping cart price rules
admin/promo_quote/
And set the discount of 20% there. It will apply to the cart and you won't have to the catalog price rules every time.
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One order has an issue during our Black friday promotion (Catalog price rule 20%). The product original price is $198 but went through for $167 (around 15.6%). I checked the logs, order details etc but don't see any issues. The sale price is fine on front end and other orders were fine too.
Any thoughts how it happened? We are using Magento ver. 1.9.3.2.
Product order amount
Product original amount
The sale amount should have been $158.4
It seems like the rule which was applied is different. Please see the rule details assigned to the corresponding order.
You can see the rule by running the below SQL.
SELECT applied_rule_ids FROM sales_flat_order WHERE entity_id=[MAGNETO_ORDER_ID]
And then see the rule details corresponding to that applied_rule_id
I have two types of products:
A product that is on sale all the time and uses the special price field with no scheduled dates.
A product that is scheduled to go on sale once or twice a year using special price field and scheduled to and from dates in the future.
I have a coupon that MUST not be applicable on products whose special price field is active, whether by virtue of today's date falling within the to and from date fields, or by simply having its special price field filled in.
I can easily solve for product 1 - add a condition excluding anything with a special price greater than .01.
BUT that doesn't solve for product 2 - I do not want to exclude product 2 when the dates of the special price on product 2 have not been reached yet or have expired.
I do not want a manual solution (i.e. manually add products to a sale category when on sale, remove when not on sale).
I'm thinking of creating a cron job to make changes on the fly in a semi-auto fashion, but that seems desperate. Is there nothing I can do here to automate this based on special price dates?
You can do that using the Magento Admin.
First in admin go to Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attribute -> Look for "special_from_date" and "special_to_date".
Click on it, look for the option "Use for promotion conditions" set "Yes"
Now your special_from and special_to date will show up on your cart promotion rules section.
I'm dealing with exactly the same need.
For now, I'm developing a cron job: it run every day at midnight andupdates the rule end_date with today(). It's hacky, but so far looks promising and it's way easier and more manteinable than messing with mage internals.
Edit: also see here https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/210006/catalog-price-rules-with-date-as-conditions-cannot-possibly-work-due-to-strtotim
I created a Shopping Rule condition wherein my customers with products worth more than $50 in their cart is given 10% discount automatically.
Now, if the same user have a coupon code for 10% and he applies it, gets another 10% discount. This is a strict No.
I'm testing magento and wondering if anyone has a solution to add a condition to check the discounts be applied only once and not twice?
Magento default provide this type of functionality just check image
Let me know if you have any query
I'm using virtuemart on Joomla and I was wondering if it is possible to make a discount depending on the clock. I want to add a 20% discount on sales made from 16.00 through 20.00 avery day.
Thanks in advance
I think there's a possible solution based on an extension called Chameleon. Using Chameleon you can set the VM shopper group on the fly, according to specific conditions.
So perhaps you could set up a special shopper group that has a 20% discount. Then you would make a "rule" in Chameleon that triggers only between 16:00 and 20:00. The "succeed action" in that rule would be to set the shopper group to the new shopper group.
That way, people would be able to see the special prices only during those times. The shopper group switch is not "sticky" i.e. it doesn't permanently assign the person to that shopper group.
Some people use this functionality for setting different pricing for people in different countries (GeoIP), or different domains on their site, so I think it should work fine for time-based things as well. The only issue might be what happens if they have added something to their cart before 20:00 but don't check out in time; but I am sure that could be solved.
www.metamodpro.com/chameleon
Out of the box is not possible to do that. If you doesn't mind to spend some money you may buy a virtuemart plugin called 'quantity plugin' which calculates discount based on quantity and modify it to use time instead of quantity.
Alternatively you may check how the calculation rules works by examining a few files:
administrator/com_components/com_virtuemart/controllers/calc.php
administrator/com_components/com_virtuemart/models/calc.php
administrator/com_components/com_virtuemart/views/calc/view.html.php
administrator/com_components/com_virtuemart/tables/calc*.php
Using those files as starting point you could implement your own discount rule.
Hope this helps.
I want to apply a catalog price rule only on a certain category.
This works to a certain extent. The category has 109 products, but I can only see the reduced price on the frontend of like 20 of the 109 products. The rest is unchanged.
What could be the cause of this? If I manually edit the products the price rule is applied, but having to do this for 80+ products is a bit too much.
Thanks in advance
Magento has a weird way of storing and indexing pricing when there are pricing rules.
Try to run a cron job every few minutes or so.