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Crear Reglas de precios y Cupones

Los cupones tienen un papel importante en las relaciones diarias con sus clientes. Normalmente, a los clientes le gustan dos cosas cuando compran:

Ambas cosas pueden lograrse con descuentos personalizados, y en esto es precisamente donde entran en juego los cuponeso más concretamente, las reglas de precios, la cual es una nueva característica de PrestaShop 1.5.

Las "Reglas de precios" pueden ser de dos tipos:

Reglas de compra

La página "Reglas de compra" le da acceso a una herramienta avanzada que sustituye y mejora el sistema de cupones utilizado en PrestaShop 1.4. Los usuarios más experimentados de PrestaShop no se sorprenderán con las funcionalidades que se han añadido, pero tendrán que adaptarse al nuevo nombre: cuando esta guía menciona cupones, en realidad nos estamos refiriendo a las reglas de compraque, en sí mismas, son bastante diferentes a  los vales de descuento.

Un vale de descuento es ante todo una prueba por escrito de que un producto ha sido devuelto. La mayoría de las veces, el cliente puede utilizar esto como un cupón. 

Un cupón es un código de descuento, que no tiene que estar relacionado con una devolución de mercancía o reembolso, y que puede tomar más formas que un simple vale de descuento:

  • Un descuento en un pedido (porcentaje).
  • Un descuento en un pedido (cantidad).
  • Envío gratuito.

Puede aplicar un bono a todos los clientes, o a un grupo de clientes, o a un cliente único; también puede establecer su fecha de caducidad. 

Una regla de la compra es básicamente una versión avanzada de un bono: además de lo que un bono podía hacer en  PrestaShop 1.4, el sistema de reglas de compra introducido en PrestaShop 1.5 le permite:

  • Darle un nombre al descuento.
  • Permitir al cliente utilizar solamente una parte del descuento.
  • Asignar prioridades entre las reglas de compra .
  • Establecer la compatibilidad entre las reglas de compra. 
  • Hacer que el descuento sólo funcione con algunos transportistas.
  • Haga que el descuento sólo funcionen con una selección de productos y/o categorías y/o fabricantes y/o proveedores y/o atributos... ¡o todos al mismo tiempo si es necesario!
  • Hacer que el descuento sea aplicable para envíos gratuitos y/o un descuento en un pedido y/o un regalo... ¡o todos al mismo tiempo si es necesario!

En esta guía del usuario, una "regla de compra" y un "cupón" son sinónimos e intercambiables.

La página "Reglas de compra" muestra un listado de las reglas de compra existentes en la actualidad, que puede activar o desactivar haciendo clic en el icono disponible en la columna "Estado".

Crear una nueva regla de compra

Un cupón o bono, puede ser creado de manera automática tras la devolución de un producto, pero también puede crearlo en cualquier momento de forma manual, y especificar con detalle sus propiedades.

El formulario de creación muestra tres pestañas, que le permite, precisamente, construir nuevas reglas y cupones.

Pestaña Información

La primera pestaña, "Información", contiene los identificadores de la regla y sus principales ajustes.

Pestaña Condición

La segunda pestaña, "Condición", contiene un amplio conjunto de posibilidades, que le permite especificar de manera precisa quién debe beneficiarse de esta regla.

Las casillas de verificación situadas en la parte inferior de esta sección son muy importantes, ya que ayudan a filtrar aún más a qué o a quién debe aplicarse la regla .

The "Product selection" option brings a whole new form, and enables you to create not only per-product vouchers, by also per-categories, per-manufacturers, per-suppliers and even per-attribute. As a bonus, you can combine all these in order to specify your customer target as much as possible.

For instance, you can create automatic vouchers for your customer in the form "Buy at least 3 Apple product, get free shipping!"
This is really a tool within the cart rule too, and its configuration is quite specific. You can add as many product selections as needed, following this path:

  1. Click the "Product selection" link to add a new section.
  2. Indicate the number of products needed for the discount to activate.
  3. Add at least one rule, of the type you want: products, attributes, categories, manufacturers, suppliers. You can add as many rules per product selection as you want, even one for each type if necessary.
  4. Clicking the "OK" adds a new line in the selection. For each type, you must give details on the content the rule applies to. Click the "Choose" link and a window opens, listing the content available for this type (products, categories...). Move the content from the left panel to the right one by clicking on the "Add" button, and close the window by clicking on the "X" at the top right. If only one content is selected, the content field will give its name; otherwise, it will indicate the number of selected content.

You can add as many rules within a selection as necessary. These rules are cumulative: either they all apply, or the discount is not granted.

Product selections are independent: you can add as many as needed, and they will not influence each other. This enables you to create a whole range of products to which the cart rule will apply.

Actions Tab

The third and last tab, "Actions", is where you choose what the discount actually consists of.

Once everything has been saved, you can send your voucher code to your customers, or let the system handle the cart rules automatically, depending on your settings.

Your voucher will appear in the "Cart Rules" page, under the "Price rules" menu. 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 the customer's "My vouchers" page: he or she 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 "Vouchers" field and click "Add". The customer will not be able to apply the voucher if the check-out is already validated.

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 must create a cart rule instead or create a specific price (in the "Price" page of the product's edition page).

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.

The "Catalog price rules" page lists the currently existing rules, which you can edit or delete by clicking on the icons in the "Status" column. If you need to disable a rule, simply change its end date to the day before.

Creating a New Catalog Price Rule

The creation form page has two sections, enabling you to precisely build new rules.

Specific price rules

The first form is easy to understand.

This is where you set who should benefit from the rule, what the discount should be, and other details.

You can of course combine all of these rules.

Conditions

The "Conditions" section is where you set the products to which the category price rule applies.

Conditions are built around condition groups, meaning that your data from the "Specific price rule" section above can be applied to many different ranges of products.

The default condition group is empty. You can add conditions to it using the drop-down menus in the lower part of the section:

By default, new conditions are added to the condition group that was created last. If you need to add conditions to a previous group, click on that group to highlight it, and then add your conditions.

You cannot currently remove a condition from a condition group.

You cannot currently delete a condition group.

Marketing

New in v1.5.4.

This page gathers in one place some of the most marketing-wise important modules available in your installation of PrestaShop. It serves as a shortcut to certain categories of modules from the "Modules" page.

The modules in this page come from the "Advertising and Marketing" and "Smart Shopping" sections in the "Modules" page.

You can install modules directly from this page. When you click the "install" button (or select "Install" in the drop-down list and click "Validate"), the module is installed and you are taken to the "Modules" page, where you can open the module's configuration page by clicking on its "Configure" link. You can also return to the "Marketing" page in order to open the configuration page, or delete, disable, reset or uninstall the module, depending on its status.