Displaying discount values on MVC sites

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When using discounts or free shipping offers on your MVC site, you may want to display the discounted prices or display banners that show how much more customers need to spend to obtain free shipping. This page describes how to use properties and methods of the Kentico.Ecommerceintegration package, used for building MVC sites, to display such information.

Supported discounts

The Kentico.Ecommerce integration package currently supports catalog discounts, free shipping offers and product coupons on MVC sites.

Other types of discounts also work. However, the integration package does not offer API for displaying information about those discounts.

Displaying catalog discounts

In a controller’s action, use the CalculatePrice method from the PricingService in the Kentico.Ecommerce integration package.

The method returns a ProductPrice object that contains the Discount property. In the Discount property, you can find the amount of a catalog discount.

In the following example, the CalculatePrice method has the following parameters:

  • SKUInfo product OR Variant variant – an SKUInfo or Variant object representing either a product’s SKU object or a product variant
  • ShoppingCart cart – a shopping cart instance in which prices and the discount are calculated
  • bool applyDiscounts – true if the calculation should include catalog discounts – always true for this scenario
  • bool applyTaxes – true if the calculation should include taxes



            // Initializes the needed services
            ShoppingService shoppingService = new ShoppingService();
            PricingService pricingService = new PricingService();

            // Gets the current shopping cart
            ShoppingCart shoppingCart = shoppingService.GetCurrentShoppingCart();

            // Calculates prices for the specified product
            ProductPrice price = pricingService.CalculatePrice(sku, shoppingCart, true, false);

            // Gets the catalog discount
            decimal catalogDiscount = price.Discount;

We recommend using a dependency injection container to initialize service instances. When configuring the lifetime scope for ShoppingService and PricingService, create a shared instance (singleton) for all requests.

You can then use the discount in your views.

Displaying free shipping offers

In a controller’s action, use the CalculateRemainingAmountForFreeShipping method of the PricingService in the Kentico.Ecommerce integration package.

The method returns the remaining amount of money for free shipping. If the cart is null, if there is no valid discount, or if free shipping was already applied, the method returns 0.

The CalculateRemainingAmountForFreeShipping method has a shopping cart instance as a parameter. The ShoppingCart cart parameter specifies a shopping cart for which the remaining amount is calculated.




            // Initializes the needed services
            ShoppingService shoppingService = new ShoppingService();
            PricingService pricingService = new PricingService();

            // Gets the current shopping cart
            ShoppingCart shoppingCart = shoppingService.GetCurrentShoppingCart();

            // Gets the remaining amount for free shipping
            decimal remainingFreeShipping = pricingService.CalculateRemainingAmountForFreeShipping(shoppingCart);

We recommend using a dependency injection container to initialize service instances. When configuring the lifetime scope for ShoppingService and PricingService, create a shared instance (singleton) for all requests.

You can then use the remaining amount in your views.

Displaying product coupons

See Adding coupon code fields to MVC checkout processes to learn more about adding a coupon code field to your website.