Discounting Product Prices in a Virtual Catalog
There are two ways you can discount product prices:
Create a discount campaign. For example, you can create discount campaigns to apply discounts in the following situations:
- Price of product is greater than $20.00. This is a discount condition expression. Discount condition expressions are based on a product property.
- User buys 2. This is part of a required discount condition.
- User clicks a discount ad on the Sports page. This is the click-required part of a discount.
For information about creating a discount campaign, see Creating a Discount.
Create a virtual catalog, and then apply a price rule. This method is explained in this topic.
When you create a virtual catalog, you can apply discounts to individual products, all the products in a category, or you can create an expression to discount products that meet specific criteria.
Note
- Variant-level pricing rules are supported in virtual catalogs.
To create a virtual catalog and apply a discount price rule
- Create a virtual catalog. For instructions, see Creating a Virtual Catalog.
- Include one or more base catalogs in the virtual catalog. For instructions, see Including Base Catalogs in a Virtual Catalog.
- In Catalogs, click Catalog Editor.
- In the Catalogs screen, select the virtual catalog you want to work with, and then click on the toolbar.
- In the Catalog Content - <virtual catalog> screen, in the Price rules section, click New.
- In the Item box, click the ellipsis button […].
- In the Product Picker dialog box, select the category or product you want to price, and then click OK.
Note
- In the Product Picker dialog box, Commerce Server truncates product names longer than 30 characters. If you have multiple products with the same first 30 characters, they will appear as duplicates.
- In the Type box, select Discount or Discount percentage.
- In the Amount box, specify the amount to discount the base price of the item.
- To save the price rule, click Done.
- Repeat this process to discount as many categories and products as needed.
See Also
Including Base Catalogs in a Virtual Catalog
Adding Categories to a Virtual Catalog
Pricing at the Product Variant Level
Pricing a Product in a Base Catalog
Pricing Products in a Category
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