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- Cart rules. These are actually the successors to vouchers, as they were known in previous version versions of PrestaShop.
Basically, it enables you to create per-customer vouchers voucher codes, but also much more. See the dedicated section below. - Catalog price rules. Enables you to assign price reductions by category, manufacturer, supplier, attribute or feature.
For instance, you can set a rule that would say that for Spanish customers belonging to the "Good clients" group would get 10% off on your Electronics category and all Sony products for the first week of July.
Cart Rules
The "Cart rules" page presents gives you access to an advanced tool that succeeds and builds upon the voucher system from PrestaShop 1.4. Seasoned users of PrestaShop will not be surprised with the features that were added, but will only have to adapt to the new name: when this guide mentions vouchers, we 're are actually talking about cart rules – which, in themselves, are quite different to credit slips.
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A credit slip is first and foremost a written proof that a product has been returned. Most of the time, the user can use it as a voucher. A voucher is a discount code which does not have to be tied to a merchandise return or a refund, and which can take many more forms than a simple credit slip:
You can apply a voucher to all customers, or a group of customers, or a single customer; you can set its expiration date; . A cart rule is basically an advanced version of a voucher: in addition to what a voucher could do in PrestaShop 1.4, the cart rules system introduced in PrestaShop 1.5 enables you to:
In this user guide, "cart rule" and "voucher" are synonymous and interchangeable. |
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- Name. The name is public, so you should keep it casual.
- Description. The description is not public. It helps your shop employees understand why the rule was created.
- Code. Give your rule a unique code. You can either create one manually (and therefore use readable words, like 1VOUCH4JOE), or have PrestaShop generate one unique string by clicking the "Click to generate random code" button. Of course, you can also use any other string generator (such as http://www.random.org/strings/).
Note that if no code is set, the rule will apply to any customer fitting the other conditions:- If there 's is a code, then customer have to enter it during the ordering process.
- If there 's is no code, then the rule is automatically applied to benefiting customers.
- Partial use. If disabled, the rule/voucher can only be used once, even if it is not completely used. If enabled, a new voucher is created when the current one is not completely used.
- Priority. If a customer (or group of customers) are eligible for more than one voucher, or if more than one voucher can be applied to an order, then PrestaShop applies said voucher one by one in the alphanumerical order. You can change that order by placing a lower priority to you voucher. By default, they all have a priority of 1. If you set it to a higher number, the voucher will be applied after vouchers with a lower number.
- Status. You can disable and enable a rule whenever you feel is necessary.
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- Limit to a single customer. This is where you indicate that the voucher you are creating is for one customer only. For instance, if you had a delivery delay and you want to apologize, you can create a voucher for this customer that only he or she can access. To quickly find the customer, type in the first few letters of their first or last name in the text field.
If empty, PrestaShop will understand than any customer can use it... unless you have added a customer group as a further condition (see "Customer group selection" check-box below). - Validity. The default validity is one month, but you can reduce that to one week or even one day.
- Minimum amount. The minimum order amount under which the voucher is not applicable. Your voucher will only be applicable if the customer's order is above the given amount. You can choose if that amount should include taxes and/or shipping costs.
- Total available. Set a quantity of available vouchers: either "1" if it is intended for a single customer, or any number if the voucher is for whoever uses one first.
- Total available for each user. You can set the number of times a voucher can be used for each user. That number must be at least equal to the quantity of available vouchers above ("Total available" field).
- If that number is inferior to the total quantity of available vouchers, then one single customer won't will not be able to use all of them.
- Keeping it to "1" makes sure that each of your customers can only use the voucher once. In that case, make sure the voucher applies to a group rather than a customer...
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Product selections are separate: you can add as many as needed, and they won't will not influence each other. This enables you to create a whole range of products to which the cart rule will apply.
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- Free shipping. The rule treats benefiting customers to free shipping.
- Apply a discount.
- Percent (%). The rule applies to a percentage of the order total. For instance, let's say the order is valued at $200 before taxes. The rule has a value of 15%. Customer who benefit from this rule will only have to pay $170 (before taxes and shipping costs).
- Amount. The rule applies a monetary discount on the order total. For instance, let's say the order is valued at $200 before taxes. The discount offers $20 off the purchase. Customer who benefit from this rule will only pay $80 before (before shipping costs). You can choose whether taxes are applied to the discount or not.
- None. The rule doesn't does not offer any discount on the order. Choosing this option makes the next section, "Apply discount to", disappear.
- Apply discount to.
- Order (without shipping). The discount applies to the whole order.
- Specific product. You can choose to which product the discount should apply: type the first letters of the product, and choose in the list of matching names.
- Cheapest product. Only available for the "Percent (%)" option.
- Selected product(s). The customer can choose on which products the discount should be applied. Only available for the "Percent (%)" option.
- Send a free gift. You can choose to offer a gift for some conditions (and skip the discount altogether). A field appears: type the first letters of the product, and choose in the list of matching names.
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Your voucher will appear in the "Cart Rules" page, under the "Price rules" tabmenu. You can delete or edit it at any time. If the voucher was set to a specific group or customer, then it will appear in the Front-Office, in the customer's "Vouchers" section of his account as well as in the cart (if you chose to), where they can choose which one to apply to their order:
Cart rules that are set to apply to all customers do not appear in these locations: the customer's "My vouchers" page: he or she has has to know about them in order to use them. It is up to you to let them know about these public discounts.
In order to apply the cart rule, the customer needs to visit his cart and enter the voucher in the suitable "Vouchers" field and click "Add". The customer won't will not be able to apply the voucher if he checks the check out is validated immediately.
Once applied, the cart summary displays the voucher's impact on the order's amount:.
Catalog price rules
Catalog price rules are a new feature from PrestaShop 1.5, which enables you to assign price reductions by category, manufacturer, supplier, attribute or feature. As its name implies, this type of rules applies to a range of products; it cannot be used for a single product. If you need a discount applied to a single product, you
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The creation form page has two sections, enabling you to precisely build new rules.
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