Manufacturer Discount
A Zen Cart™ discounting module for discounting the products
of specific manufacturers.
Background: See the
Zen Cart Matrix-o-discounts
Relevance: Zen Cart™ 1.3.7 - 1.3.9, 1.5.0
Current Version: 1.0
Cost: $60.00
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Installed Cost: $120.00
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Installation Difficulty: Moderate
Installation Instructions: click here
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Promotional Page Download:
There is no promotional page with Manufacturer Discount; it comes
with three promotional mechanisms built in.
FAQ: click here
Marketing Text: click here
Add-Ons:
Manufacturer Discounts is an order total module, so the discount is
not visible until the second page of checkout. If you want
to see the discount on the shopping cart page (or sidebox), look at
Discount Preview.
Overview:
Manufacturer Discount permits a shop to
discount the products of a specific manufacturer by %age.
The discounts themselves are entered into the admin panel
using Admin->Catalog->Manufacturers in the "Discount" field under
the Manufacturer's Name.
The discount is shown on the second page of checkout by default:
However, using the
Discount Preview
module will allow you to show the discount on the
shopping cart page.
A Note on Taxes
(If you are not subject to a VAT and do not mix taxable and
non-taxable products, please skip this section.)
The way taxes are handled internally in Zen Cart 1.x is that the entire tax amount is stored in the cart; the tax is not broken down on an item by item basis. For this reason, tax recalculation after discounting may not work perfectly if items which attract different levels of tax are in the cart - for example, taxable and non-taxable items. This issue is discussed in
this forum post, and we are hopeful that Zen Cart 2.x will solve this problem.
Included Taxes and My Mods
This section is only relevant to Zen Carts which
use "Display Prices with Tax" = true (in Admin->Configuration->My Store).
If your shop displays prices with tax included,
you should configure my discounting mods to use Include Tax = true
and set Re-Calculate tax to either "Standard" or "VAT" (depending on
how taxes are handled in your jurisdiction).
There was a time when my software would gross up percentage discounts
for tax but not currency based discounts.
I decided to change this
and handle both uniformly, so now (post April 2010) if you
configure one of my discount mods to use include taxes = true,
your discount will be grossed up whether it is a currency value
or a percentage.
Detailed Description:
- Configuration
Manufacturer Discount is installed through the Admin interface (Admin->
Modules->Order Totals->Table Discount).
This is where the tax settings and sort order are configured.
Once this is done, specific discounts are added to manufacturers using the
Admin->Catalog->Manufacturers screen.
- Checkout Page User Interface
Manufacturer Discount is an "Order Total" module, which means
that by default, the discount
is not shown until the second page of checkout (Payment Information).
However, using the Discount Preview
module will allow you to show the discount on the
shopping cart page.
Depending on your configuration,
the second page of checkout will look something like this:
Installation Instructions:
- Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing
it on a live shop.
- Unzip the file you have received.
- Merge the files below with what you have in your cart.
NOTE that these files assume
your template name is "custom," so any file with "custom"
in its name will need to be renamed if you are using a
different template name.
- Run the script
discount.sql
against your database using your Admin panel under
Admin->Tools->Install SQL patches.
NOTE: this provides for integer (whole number) discounts like 25%.
If you want floating point discounts (e.g. 25.8%), see
the faq
for instructions.
- Product Info Page - Copy the file
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php
to
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php
if it is not already there.
Above the first line of HTML, add these lines:
<!-- bof Manufacturer Discount Marketing -->
<?php
require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_manufacturer_discount_marketing.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE,
$current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_manufacturer_discount_marketing.php');
?>
<!-- eof Manufacturer Discount Marketing -->
- Manufacturer listing page - Copy the file
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_product_list.php
to
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_index_product_list.php
if it is not already there.
Above the first line of HTML, add these lines:
<!-- bof Manufacturer Discount Listing -->
<?php
require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_manufacturer_discount_listing.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE,
$current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_manufacturer_discount_listing.php');
?>
<!-- eof Manufacturer Discount Listing -->
- Centerbox on main page - Copy the file
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_default.php
to
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_index_default.php
Above the lines that say
<?php
$show_display_category = $db->Execute(SQL_SHOW_PRODUCT_INFO_MAIN);
add these lines:
<!-- bof Manufacturer Discount Centerbox -->
<?php
require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_manufacturer_discount.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE,
$current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_manufacturer_discount.php');
?>
<!-- eof Manufacturer Discount Centerbox -->
- In Admin->Modules->Order Total, select Manufacturer Discount and
press the Install button on the right hand side.
- Go to Admin->Catalog->Manufacturers, and start setting your discounts.
Marketing
What good is having cross selling and upselling specials if you don't
advertise them?
Manufacturer Discount may be automatically displayed in three places:
on the product info page, on the manufacturer listing page, and
on the home page. Instructions for each of these marketing template changes
are provided as part of the installation file.
The product info page has a small text banner indicating the
manufacturer discount as shown below.
The manufacturer listing page uses a similar type of display box.
The manufacturer listing page is what is displayed when someone
clicks on the Manufacturers Sidebox (added to your page using
Admin->Tools->Layout Boxes Controller.)
And finally, the home page shows a centerbox listing the manufacturers
which are on sale, along with their images.
(If you use this marketing template change, you must add images
for the manufacturers you are discounting.)
Major Versions
- 1.0 11/05/2011 - Update to Zen Cart 1.5 (No functional changes)
- 1.0 05/01/2011 - First Release
FAQ
Q: Don't
Big Chooser
and
Table Discounts
already do manufacturer based discounting?
A:
Yes, but
both of them require PHP scripting to configure, whereas
Manufacturer Discount works using your existing Zen Cart
Admin interface.
Q: Instead of round numbers, I would prefer decimal number
discounts for Manufacturer Discount. What should I do?
A:
To get decimal numbers instead of integer number discounts, use
the following command in your Zen Cart admin panel under
Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches:
ALTER TABLE manufacturers MODIFY COLUMN discount decimal(15,2) default '0.00';
Q: I can't seem to get Manufacturer Discount to work. What am I doing wrong?
A: Please check the following things:
- Go to Admin->Modules->Order Total. Do you see Manufacturer Discount? If not, then you haven't installed it. Follow the README.
- If you do see it, the circle at the right hand end of the row for
Manufacturer Discount should be green. If it's not green, reinstall it.
- Re-read my Guide to Mod Installation on Zen Cart.
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