X-Cart forums

[jharwood]

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

[bri]

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 !

[jharwood]

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