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This page explores a dozen of rules which will certainly help you get a better grip of these tools, and might inspire you to come up with your own.
Before you read this tutorialthese explanations, you should brush up on your knowledge of the price rule generators: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Creating+Price+Rules+And+Vouchers
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In short, create a catalog price rule to build discount prices that the customer will see right away ; create a price cart rule to build a discount that the customer will only see when viewing the content of the cart, or vouchers that the customer will be able to apply to cart using a code.
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To lower the price by the same percentage for a product or a selection of products, you must create a cart rule.
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Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied.
Specific product price
This is not a "price rule" per se, but it works just as well. Everything is done in the product's page within the store's catalog, not in any of the "price rule" generators.
Once in the product's configuration page, open the "Prices" tab on the left, and click "Add a new specific price" in the "Specific prices" section. A form opens. You can change everything in that form in order to make the discount availability even more specific, but if you simply want to make it available to all, just change the value of the "Apply a discount of" option to 10, and indicate that is a percentage.
Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied.
10% off for a specific product when the customer orders 5 of this product
Cart rule
To lower the price by the same percentage for a product or a selection of products if and only if the customer buys at least 5 if these products, you must create a cart rule.
Cart rule
- Information tab: Enter a name and description. If you want the discount to depend on the customer entering the correct code, enter that code in the "Code" field.
- Conditions tab:
- Check the "Product selection" box at the bottom.
- Click the "Product selection" link that appears.
- Select "The cart must contain at least 5 Product(s)".
- Choose "Add a rule concerning Products", click OK.
- Click the "Choose" button. In the interface that appears, choose one or more products in the "Unselected" section on the left, and click the "Add" button so as to move them in the "Selected" section on the right. Once all the proper products are chosen, click to cross at the top right of the interface, or press the Escape key.
- Actions tab: Choose "Percent" in the "Apply a discount" option. Enter "10" in the "Value" field.
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Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied.
Specific product price
This is not a "price rule" per se, but it works just as well. Everything is done in the product's page within the store's catalog, not in any of the "price rule" generators.
Once in the product's configuration page, open the "Prices" tab on the left, and click "Add a new specific price" in the "Specific prices" section. A form opens. You can change everything in that form in order to make the discount availability even more specific, but if you simply want to make it available to all, just change the value of the "Starting at" option to 5 and change the value of the "Apply a discount of" option to 10, and indicate that is a percentage.
Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied.
10% off for a specific product for the first 50 customers
To lower the price of a specific product one a first-come first-served basis, you must create a cart rule:
- Information tab: Enter a name and description. If you want the discount to depend on the customer entering the correct code, enter that code in the "Code" field.
- Conditions tab:
- Enter "50" in the "Total available" option. Leave "1" in the "Total available for each user" option, so that a single customer can only use this promotion once.
- Check the "Product selection" box at the bottom.
- Click the "Product selection" link that appears.
- Choose "Add a rule concerning Products", click OK.
- Click the "Choose" button. In the interface that appears, choose one or more products in the "Unselected" section on the left, and click the "Add" button so as to move them in the "Selected" section on the right. Once all the proper products are chosen, click to cross at the top right of the interface, or press the Escape key.
- Actions tab:
- Choose "Percent" in the "Apply a discount" option. Enter "10" in the "Value" field.
- Select "Specific product" in the "Apply a discount to" option and find the product you chose in Conditions tab.
Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied.
Buy 1, Get 1 Free
This is a classic. So many online and real-life store use it, it actually has its own Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_one,_get_one_free), and an acronym: BOGO (or BOGOF). This is a very effective way to promote your products.
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In effect, this rule is giving 20% to the product once the cart reaches more than at least 5 of this product. So if the customer buys 6, the 20% discount will be applied to the whole 6 items rather than the 5 first ones. We therefore do not recommend this method. |
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The easiest way to give two products when one is bought , is to create a pack of the two offered product, and then create a cart rule to give that pack along the purchase.
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Save your settings. The discount is immediately applied – provided the pack has some quantity available for sale!
Free shipping on any
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order
Offering free shipping for everyone is easy. Simply create a cart rule:
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- Information tab: Enter a name and description. If you want the discount to depend on the customer entering the correct code, enter that code in the "Code" field.
- Conditions tab: Enter "20" in the "Minimum amount" option (make sure that you are using the correct currency).
- Actions tab: Choose "Free shipping".
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