{"id":1644,"date":"2017-05-27T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2018-09-01T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:39:43","slug":"welcome-discount-chooser-and-discount-spender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/27\/welcome-discount-chooser-and-discount-spender\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Discount Chooser and Discount Spender!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_discount_chooser.html\">Free Gift Chooser<\/a>, it only offered 100% discounts (&#8220;free gifts&#8221;), based on the content of the cart. About a year later, I added the ability to do price reductions &#8211; percentage or dollar based. So the name &#8220;Free Gift Chooser&#8221; was no longer very accurate.<\/p>\n<p>With the pending release of the Free Gift Chooser algorithm\u00a0for OpenCart, I&#8217;m taking this opportunity to rename the Zen Cart and osCommerce versions of\u00a0<b>Free Gift Chooser<\/b> to <b>Discount Chooser<\/b> (and similarly, to rename Free Gift Spender for Zen Cart to Discount Spender).<\/p>\n<p>Same powerful discounting software; new name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first created Free Gift Chooser, it only offered 100% discounts (&#8220;free gifts&#8221;), based on the content of the cart. About a year later, I added the ability to do price reductions &#8211; percentage or dollar based. So the name &#8220;Free Gift Chooser&#8221; was no longer very accurate. With the pending release of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/27\/welcome-discount-chooser-and-discount-spender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome, Discount Chooser and Discount Spender!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,58,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oscommerce","category-that-software-guy","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}