[ic] Whats the secret to discounts

[New Media E.M.S.]

At 10:35 PM 5/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>New Media E.M.S. wrote:
>>At 04:12 PM 5/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>It appears to be somewhat unclear how to enable and get to work quantity 
>>>discounts. I've been working with this little gem for about an hour now 
>>>this afternoon and its just not working.
>>>
>>>I've got the discount values entered for the item, but when I test order 
>>>a specific amount that "should" trigger the quantity discount, nothing 
>>>happens. It continues to use the base price.
>>>
>>>wussup?
>>
>>You've entered quantity pricing in the pricing table for the item? What 
>>does your CommonAdjust string look like (be sure to check 
>>yourcat/etc/after.cfg, as this contains pricing directives that may 
>>override what's in catalog.cfg)?
>>- Ed
>
>Hi Ed,
>
>I checked both files and in both files and the following is what I found 
>in those files:
>
>PriceField      0
>CommonAdjust    :sale_price, ;:price, ;$, ==:options
>
>I suspected that the value of "PriceField" was a boolean value so I opened 
>up these files on our test installation on the development server and 
>changed the values in both files to 1, but doing so didn't seem to make a 
>difference. I'm now wondering what else I've missed. I was reading through 
>the documentation this afternoon, but wasn't able to make much sense of 
>anything quite yet.
>
>Mark

It's not boolean, it specifies the name of the price field, and must be set 
to a non-existent target to enable CommonAdjust. For that latter directive, 
assuming you have quantity pricing in the pricing table, you would want 
something like:

CommonAdjust   pricing:q2,q5,q10,q25,q50,q100, :sale_price, ;:price, ;$, 
==:options


- Ed


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