[ic] are timed discounts per item possible?

Tue Feb 12 19:16:01 2002

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:14:20PM -0600, Jason Balicki wrote:
> 
> Yeah, me again.  I get one thing done and my not-quite-so-superiors
> ask me to do yet another absurdly difficult thing that seems simple
> to the non-admins of the world.  :/
> 
> Anyway, I've been asked to impliment timed discounts similar
> to the timed promotions that are available in item edit:merchandising.
> 
> I know that IC 4.8.3 doesn't support this out of the box, and that's
> ok, but has anyone else already done this?  If so, can I leech your
> code? :)  Perhaps more importantly, has anyone else tried this
> and given up in frustration?
> 
> What I'm envisioning are a few select boxes with "Timed Discount",
> "Start,"
> "End," and a text box wherein I can enter a percentage discount.  Can
> this be done with the default products database?  Or will it require
> a more fundamental design change?

You probably mean start date and end date right, not something more
hairbrained like "this discount only good for first 5 minutes of a 
shopping session".

Why not use an external script to update the prices in your database?
You'd probably want to modify some field "This discount good until 
Friday" etc....

Then all you need is a text file like:

#code  start   end   price    any_other_fields

One person with that could do a better job than 20 doing
point and click.  I guess that makes 19 unhappy.

Don't try to do everything in IC.

> 
> I know I can do discounts with tags, but I need to do it for specific
> items, not globaly, and make changing the discounts available
> in the admin UI so my co-workers who will be taking care of the
> products database can be all point and click happy.
> 
> Any ideas at all on where to start would be wonderful.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> --J(K)
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