AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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 ...).