There is also to consider the rules of particular provinces, states, etc.
Sometimes they ask that the promotion applies even stock are over...

Richard

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Derek <sp1d...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose it could be if you have many different types of sales (ex: buy
> this specific item, get another specific item half off) but supposing you
> stick to certain themes it wouldn't be too difficult (buy 5 get 50% off, or
> get 12%off all electronics)
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:42:50 AM UTC-7, Dave S wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:25:05 AM UTC-8, Derek wrote:
>>>
>>> I think I would handle it by creating a controller function which
>>> calculates a price given the objectid and quantity, it returns the line
>>> item price per single item and price total together as well as the
>>> percentage saved (if any). the code in that function would probably change
>>> for every promotion, depending.
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me to be labor intensive (and not the clerical labor!) to have
>> to change the code for every promotion.  I'd rather the code did a lookup
>> somewhere that could be updated using a form.
>>
>>
>>> If certain items can use a discount code, then i'd have to tag those
>>> items somehow saying that they can be used with that discount code. So the
>>> function would also include an optional discount code, which would give a
>>> certain percentage off and not calculate any other discounts for those
>>> products.
>>>
>>>
>> /dps
>>
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