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Price discounts based on quantity and adding free items to cart based on total

Thread began 8/14/2009 10:36 am by larisse148343 | Last modified 8/17/2009 9:12 am by Jason Byrnes | 1319 views | 1 replies |

larisse148343

Price discounts based on quantity and adding free items to cart based on total

I am trying to create a shopping cart in which if a certain number of items are added of the same item, the price reduces for that item. Can this be done and how? Also, I need to be able to add a free item to the cart automatically if the final total (before the shipping and any tax) equals a certain amount. At this time, I am using PayPal standards shopping cart, but it does not provide a viable solution for these two scenarios. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

In the Downloads Center for eCart there is a section titled eCommerce Recipes. The eCommerce recipe PDF File contains a recipe for quantity discounts which will explain how this is done.


For offering a free item, you will have to write custom code for this.

You really shouldn't add the item to the cart itself for a number of reasons. If the cart is updated, you may want to remove it. the customer would also be able to edit the quantity for a couple of examples.

You could write an If statement to show it in the cart based on the order total.

Then add an Insert record behavior to the checkout process to store a record in the order details table for the free item. you would need to hand code the if statement for the Insert record behavior to happen only if the order total met your criteria.

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