Glossary Item Box

Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Adding a Discount

Overview

In order to add a discount, you will need to know the following:

Adding a Discount
This is an example of how to add a discount to offer 20% off a product named "Ginger Snaps". The fields discussed in this example can be seen in the Record Overview topic.
  1. Open the control panel
  2. Click the Discounts menu link
  3. Click
  4. Enter a Name for the discount in the Name field. For this example, enter:

    20% Off Ginger Snaps

  5.  Leave the Advertise and Advertise Conditions fields checked. They control whether this discount will be advertised in the storefront. This is explained in more detail in the Advertising topic.

  6. Set the Discount What field to Products or Categories. Some new fields will appear.

  7. In the Buy Products fieldset, set the Buy field to 1 or more products

  8. In the Products field, scroll to the product you want to discount and click on it to select it. When you find the product, select it. To select more than one product, hold down the CTRL key while clicking.

     

  9. In the Pricing fieldset, set the Price Is field to reduced by. A new Price Reduction field will appear to the right.
  10. Enter 20.00 in the Price Reduction field. Because we are offering 20% off the base price of this item, set the select input to the right of the text field to %

  11. The Product Display Settings control how discounted products will appear in the storefront.
    Leave the Price Label field set to Sale Price:. This controls what will appear in front of the price in the storefront when this discount is applicable.

  12. Set the Display Products field to as discounted. Leave the other fields in that section as is.

  13. Enter a description in the Description field. Plain text and HTML are allowed. This is how you can describe the discount to your customers.

  14. Click Save Changes

 

When viewing the product for this example discount in the storefront, it's thumbnail view looks like this:

 

When viewing the product in detail, it looks like this:


 

 


© 2001-2017 Lighthouse Development. All Rights Reserved.