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.

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  • Variant-level pricing rules are supported in virtual catalogs.

To create a virtual catalog and apply a discount price rule

  1. Create a virtual catalog. For instructions, see Creating a Virtual Catalog.
  2. Include one or more base catalogs in the virtual catalog. For instructions, see Including Base Catalogs in a Virtual Catalog.
  3. In Catalogs, click Catalog Editor.
  4. In the Catalogs screen, select the virtual catalog you want to work with, and then click Open on the toolbar.
  5. In the Catalog Content - <virtual catalog> screen, in the Price rules section, click New.
  6. In the Item box, click the ellipsis button [].
  7. In the Product Picker dialog box, select the category or product you want to price, and then click OK.

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  • 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.
  1. In the Type box, select Discount or Discount percentage.
  2. In the Amount box, specify the amount to discount the base price of the item.
  3. To save the price rule, click Done.
  4. Repeat this process to discount as many categories and products as needed.

See Also

Creating a Discount

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

Discount Concepts

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