Volume pricing at the category level. Easily offer a fixed discount (not percentage) based on the number of items in the basket and the categories those items are in. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Features:
- Discount based on number of items ordered
- Set up to 4 tiers of discounts per category group
- Can have 8 groups (each containing one or more categories), each with 4 different discount tiers
- Category wide, multi-category or store wide discounts
- Optionally apply discount after other discounts have lowered the subtotal
- Discount shows at checkout as separate line item
- Optionally display updated discount in basket prior to checkout
- Can use wildcard instead of entering category codes for the group
- Can either include or exclude a single price group, e.g. Wholesale, to be able to use the discount
Feature Details:
In admin, the store owner configures the trigger
levels (number of items needed to activate the discount) and the
corresponding fixed amount off. The store owner can
designate 1 - 4 trigger levels so that he/she can vary the
discount based on the number bought. Reward the
customer; the more the customer buys, the higher the
discount.
The store
owner then includes a list of category codes that will
be used in the calculation. Use this module for
category-wide or store-wide fixed discounts. If using
store-wide, make sure the discount doesn't exceed the price
of the potentially summed products. If using category-wide,
make sure the discount does not exceed the price of the lowest
priced product in the category.
The discount amount will appear during checkout on the screen after the customer has entered their shipping method. You can optionally display the discount in the basket prior to checkout.
In admin you can setup eight separate groups with
their own four-tiered discount and categories. Hence, if you want to discount
one category of products with one set of rules (levels) and another category
with a different set of rules, you can now do this. Multiple categories can be
assigned to each group. As the basket is scanned, the discount is applied based
on each group's rules, then summed
together at checkout. You can optionally display the updated discounts prior to checkout in the regular basket screen, recalculating
and updating discounts based on changing basket contents.
You can choose
one price group, e.g. Wholesale, which is not eligible for the discount since they
presumably already benefit from significantly lower prices. Or if you don't want to exclude, you can include the one group. This would be useful if you want to apply a fixed amount off for that price group rather than use Merchant's percent off price group calculations. This would allow you to discount different fixed amounts from different groupings (categories) of products.
You can use the asterisk
(*) to replace the category codes. When the module encounters the asterisk instead of
category codes, it considers all further products eligible. As example, the asterisk in
the first group would make all products in the store eligible for the discount. On the other hand,
category codes in the first group would apply the first group rules to those categories.
Then if there is an asterisk in the second group, all other products in the store would
use those discount rules.
The module currently fully supports the mivasql configuration of MIVA Merchant 5. It also supports MySQL as long as load balancing has the data stored on the single MySQL server and
permissions are set correctly on the data
directories. This would be the case in most of the server setups. If you are using Merchant 5.x and your host is web.com, you will not be able to use this module due to the way they configure their servers. There are no known issues with
other hosts.
