Working with order discounts

You can use order discounts to motivate selected customers to purchase more products. Order discounts relate to a whole order. Specifically, these discounts apply to the sum of prices of product items (including selected product options) added to the shopping cart.

For example, use this discount when you want to provide discount to customers:

• during some special season, e.g., Christmas,
• who pay in some particular currency, e.g., U.S. Dollars,
• whose shopping carts contain goods for more than a specific amount of money, e.g., 500 USD.

You can configure order discounts in detail to apply only if specified rules (macro conditions) are fulfilled. These rules use properties of the shopping cart, and can include shopping cart content, billing/shipping address, order currency, etc. You can also specify periods of validity for order discounts.

Adding and editing order discounts

You can add or edit order discounts in the Order discounts application.

• Order discounts limited by periods of validity
• Order discounts targeted at selected customers
• Order discounts limited by conditions

Order discounts limited by periods of validity

To add or to edit order discounts limited by periods of validity:

1. To add a new discount, click New order discount. To edit an existing discount, click Edit () at the desired discount.

2. Type a Name for the discount.

3. Enter the order discount properties in the Duration category:

   • Valid from – specifies the start of the period of validity.
   • Valid to – specifies the end of the period of validity.

   

   Leave both fields empty for permanent validity.

4. Click Save.

The system saves the order discount. The system now applies the discount only during the discount’s period of validity (if the discount is running).

Order discounts targeted at selected customers

To add or to edit order discounts targeted at selected customers:

1. To add a new discount, click New order discount. To edit an existing discount, click Edit () at the desired discount.

2. Type a Name for the discount.

3. Change the value of the Available for property in the Target customers category

   • All visitors – all customers are eligible for the discount; the default option.
   • Registered users – only registered customers are eligible for the discount.
   • Selected roles – only customers in selected roles are eligible for the discount.

4. Click Save.

The system saves the order discount. The system now applies the discount (if the discount is running) only for the selected customers.

Order discounts limited by conditions

To add or to edit order discounts limited by conditions:

1. To add a new discount, click New order discount. To edit an existing discount, click Edit () at the desired discount.

2. Type a Name for the discount.

3. Specify Minimum order amount in your on-line store main currency.

4. Click Edit to set the discount rules and their parameters:

   1. In the Edit macro condition dialog that opens, select the required rule in the right part of the dialog.

   2. Use drag & drop, or double-click, or click Add rule () button to add the rule.

   3. Click the underlined parts of the rule in the left part of the dialog to open the Set parameter value dialog.

      One rule can contain more parameters. That’s why there can be more underlined words.

   4. Select the desired parameter:

      

   5. Click OK.

   6. (Optional) Repeat editing to set all discount rules and all their parameters you want.

   7. Click Save & Close.

5. Click Save.

The system saves the order discount. The system now applies the discount only if the specified conditions are fulfilled (if the discount is running).

Displaying order discounts in the invoice

To display a discount applied on the customer’s order in the invoice:

1. Open the Store configuration application.

2. Switch to the Invoice tab.

3. Add the following code into your invoice template:

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    {%OrderDiscount.Format(Currency.CurrencyFormatString)#%}
   
   
    

   

4. Click Save.

If you now review an existing order on the Invoice tab, you can see that the invoice includes information about order discount(s) applied on the order.

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