Discount Awards

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The discount award (Get) identifies what the user receives. The discount award contains a target type, a value type, and a catalog expression.

  • Target type defines the award target. There are three types of awards that can be given: item level discounts, order level discounts, and shipping discounts. The only shipping discount Commerce Server 2002 supports is free shipping. A site developer must make custom changes to your site for percentage off and dollar off variations of the shipping discount.

  • Value type defines the award value. The award values are percent off discounts and dollar off discounts.

    You can create zero (0) dollar off discounts, however, Commerce Server 2002 does not support zero (0) percentage off discounts.

  • Catalog expression applies the discount award only if the expression evaluates to “True”. The Catalog expression is based on the product catalog. The discount catalog expression is evaluated against each item in the user basket. The expression must evaluate to “True” at least once for the discount to apply.

    The following table shows a few sample catalog expressions.

    Condition (Buy) Award (Get) Offer
    Buy one pair of jeans Get one Lee Turtleneck T-shirt At 50 percent off
    Buy an order over 500 dollars Get any pant in the Calvin Clean Blue Jean category Free
    Buy one Camcorder model 123 Get one Flash Memory card
    OR
    two Camcorder stands    		 At 40 percent off

Both AND and OR cumulative conditions are allowed in the Catalog Expression builder, but only the OR condition is supported for discounts. The AND condition is not supported and should not be used.

There are multiple ways you can award the user. Commerce Server supports three types of awards:

  • Item level discounts apply to specific products in the basket. You can apply multiple discounts to a single line item or to a single order.
  • Order level discounts apply to all products in a shopping basket.
  • Shipping discounts apply to the shipping charges that users pay to have the items they order delivered to their address. The only shipping discount Commerce Server 2002 supports is free shipping. A site developer must make custom changes to your site for percentage off and dollar off variations of the shipping discount.

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