Variant Level Discounts

[johne417]

Hello. I was wondering if there was a way to set different discounts at the variant level. Our client is requesting this ability of us. I keep going over the discounts page but can only find a way to set a discount for a product, which applies to all variants for that product. Our client has occasion where a given color or size of a shirt or widget ends up with excess inventory and they'd like to set a discount for just those variants to try to move some inventory but not the rest of the product....Can I do this?

Appreciate any help.

~John

[s_ismail]

I don't think discount is supported for specific variants only in AC , it just applied on product quantity or total price.

[jmestep]

For those items, the easiest way would be to set a price modifier for the variant to a negative number. For example, your product is $20 and the blue ones are not moving, so you set their variant modifier to $-3.00, which makes blue ones $17 but the other colors are still $20.

[johne417]

That's a good idea Judy, and it'll help a lot. But unfortunately it won't work in all of our situations, as there are occasions where we also need to incorporate other functionality of the discounts - for certain groups, e.g.

Does anybody have any other ideas? Unfortunately, it kindof sounds like AbleCommerce doesn't really support variant-level discounts. Admins/Mods, please consider this a request.

Actually admins/mods, if there's indeed something in the pipe for any future AC versions in this regard, if you could let me know, that'd be nice - I'd at least have a bone to throw back to the client for their request, it's something that probably could be done in the future, etc....

~John

[mazhar]

You can create feature requests in following requests forum viewforum.php?f=45. We used to scan it from time to time and to pick feature requests having majority in votes.

[SkylineTech]

Is there anyway through custom programming to apply a discount to a variant? We have this need also. I am thinking in the BuyProductDialog UserControl, maybe in the AddToBasketButton_Click event?

Mazhar, you seem to be the person "in the know", can this be done? This is very importatn for us.

Appreciate the help!

[sweeperq]

Has my vote too. We want to offer discounts by variant quantities based on cases. Example: Sock variants come in cases of 6. So we would like to set quantity discounts of $5/case (6-11 = $5, 12-17 = $10, 18-23 = $15 ...).