[ic] Chained pricing with multiple discounts

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 15:59:00 2001


At 03:21 PM 10/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I've spent the last 3 weeks tearing through the archives, online docs, and
>bound manuals, but I haven't found a good way to accomplish this (in IC
>4.6.5)...
>
>Basically, I need multiple prices for one sku; with a twist.
>
>Each price will have the following components:
>
>Base Price, quantity discount prices, and early bird discount.
>
>EB Discount is a timed discount based on the built timed promotions.  The
>early bird discount would be different for each pricing level.
>
>eg,
>                 Base    EB Discount     Misc. Quantity Discounts
>One Day         100     10              q1, q5, q6, q10 etc
>Two Day         190     25              q1, q5, q6, q10 etc
>Three Day       250     40              q1, q5, q6, q10 etc
>
>The EB Discount is not any based on any derivable formula.
>
>Would I be better off NOT using commonadjust for this, and instead having
>a 1:N relationship between a product, and the pricing table?  This would
>allow for me to have any number of pricing schemes (with ALL pricing
>options) for a single product.

You might want to consider sticking with CommonAdust, and possibly:

a)writing a usertag for use with the CommonAdjust chain
http://developer2.akopia.com/archive/interchange-users/2001/msg05636.html

b)using an item modifier to handle the Early bird discounting;
Get the Minivend 4.x tar.gz from ftp.akopia.com and read the sections on 
CommonAdjust and Item Attributes.

- Ed L.




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