Buy any 6 from all items in a category feature
 

I am working on implementing the following feature for a client's store (v3.4.14 at the moment) and thought I should check the forum first to see if anyone has done something similar or had some suggestions.

The specifics are: We have a number of items in a category and want to offer a discount for a purchase of specific numbers of the items when purchased together ... like a 6-pack and a 12-pack. The customer would be able to choose from all items in the category which of the 6 (or 12) items they want to purchase.

It is basically a discount but only applies to the items in that category and I would like to be able to "promote" it as an item itself but still let the customer select the items they want.

Any thoughts out there?
Best Regards
John

bump. the only thought i have on this subject is that I'd like the same type of functionality :)

I'd like a quantity discount exactly the way wholesale pricing works, but across an entire category or subcategory. I worked on it last year a bit but came up empty...

If anyone has any ideas or help it would be much appreciated !

I think that in general the most needed functionality for x-cart are an array of viable promotional tools. Things like this topic's special but also something as basic as a timed special ... eg. a particular item on sale until a predefined date/time. While most anything is possible by modification of the scripts and templates, it's time consuming and makes a real upgrade headache to implement rather basic merchandising functions by having to modify the system.

But then ... no one else has replied to this post so I quess there is not much interest.

John