[ic] Discount-Price on Flypage & Results

Mark Little mlittle13 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 27 11:45:03 EDT 2004


--- Mathew Jones <mat at thinkopensource.com> wrote:

> 
> Mark Little wrote:
> > --- Mathew Jones <mat at thinkopensource.com> wrote:
> >>On the shopping cart and checkout page the discounted price displays
> >>correctly using the 
> >>[item-discount-price] tag.
> >>
> >>When I use [item-discount-price] on the flypage or results page, it just
> >>prints out
> >>"[item-discount-price]" to the page.
> >>
> >>Is there another way thats not documented to display the discounted price
> on
> >>a flypage or results page?
> 
> >>_______________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> > Mat,
> > 
> > On those pages, I use the following:
> > [currency][calc][item-price noformat] * [scratch
> > discountLevel][/calc][/currency]
> > 
> > In your case, you could just put this on those pages:
> > [currency][calc][item-price noformat] - 5[/calc][/currency]
> > 
> > Let me know if this works.
> > Mark
> > 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the response. That is a workaround that I know I could use,
> although it becomes a pain to 
> manage if you have to change the calculation in several places everytime you
> change a discount.
> 
> [item-discount-price] should be available for use on the flypage and results.
> It makes sense for it 
> to work, otherwise customers wont know they are buying discounted items until
> they reach the 
> cart/checkout. Theres no point having discounts if the customers dont see the
> discounted price while 
> browsing the site.
> 
> Mat
> 

Mat,

I store my discount level in a global variable so I only need to change it in
one place...but yes, I agree, I'm not sure why this doesn't work. The customer
should see the discount before they order the item. For my simple discounting
mechanism, this workaround is fine, but for more complex discounting, it
wouldn't work that well.

Best of luck,
Mark

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