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Zen Cart Promotional Pages for Discounts

A promotional page is just a single page in your cart that shows off a specific discounting module you are using. It also gives you a venue to describe any limitations or restrictions which you might impose on the discount.

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Relevance: Zen Cart™ 1.3.0 - 1.3.9, 1.5.x, along with any (or all) of Better Together, Combination Discounts, Big Spender, Big Chooser, Quantity Discounts, Frequency Discounts, Table Discounts, Discount Chooser, and Discount Spender, and Manufacturer Discount.

Cost: Free, but donation appreciated

Installed Cost: $100.00 Buy Professional Installation by That Software Guy

Installation Difficulty: Easy-Moderate (Some merging of core files/overrides may be required)

Installation Instructions: click here

FAQ: click here

Each of the individual promotional pages is a separate, free download. Included in each page is example code for including a link to the page in the Categories sidebox. An integrated page showing all discounts also exists, and may be purchased for $30. Note that the integrated page uses the earlier style of display for all discounts, without images.

Once you have installed a promotional page, your site now has a new page that you can direct your customers to. You could add this link to the Categories Sidebox, the site footer, or to the front page content.

Better Together


Combination Discounts


Big Spender


Big Chooser


Quantity Discounts


Frequency Discounts

  • URL of new page: YOURSITE.com/index.php?main_page=frequencydiscounts_promo
  • A screenshot is provided in the help page.
  • The Frequency Discounts Promotional Page is included with Frequency Discounts.

Table Discounts

  • URL of new page: YOURSITE.com/index.php?main_page=tablediscounts_promo
  • download link

Discount Chooser (Free Gift Chooser)

  • URL of new page: YOURSITE.com/index.php?main_page=freegiftchooser_promo
  • download link

Discount Spender (Free Gift Spender)

  • URL of new page: YOURSITE.com/index.php?main_page=freegiftspender_promo
  • download link

Manufacturer Discount

  • URL of new page: YOURSITE.com/index.php?main_page=manufdisc_promo
  • download link

Upgrade - Show "Add Both to Cart" button on Better Together Promotional Page!

The Better Together promotional page has an optional feature called "Add Both to Cart," which allows both items in a Better Together linkage to be added to the cart in a single click. Both items must be products without attributes. See Better Together Promotional Page with Add Both to Cart for details.

Upgrade - All Discounts on One Page!

You can now show all your discounts on one page using the Integrated Promotional Page. Here's what it looks like.

This shows discounts computed by Quantity Discounts, Better Together, Combination Discounts, Big Spender and Big Chooser all one one page. Note that the Integrated Promotional Page does not display images.

I charge a fee of $30 for the Integrated Promotional Page.

Installation Instructions:

  1. Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
  2. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to the root directory of your shop.
    The names of these files reflect a template name of "custom." If you are using a different template name, please change file paths using "custom" to use your template name instead.

    Note: If you are using Zen Cart 1.5.5 or higher, your template name will be "responsive_classic" if you have not changed it.

    Note: If you have already modified
    ./includes/templates/custom/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php
    
    you will need to merge the changes to this file.
The default installation adds a link to the promotional page to the Categories Sidebox. If you don't use the Categories Sidebox, you may also want to put a link in the site footer or in the main page content, which is created in in Admin > Tools > Define Pages Editor > define_main_page.php.

FAQ

Q: I'd like to edit the promotional page in the Define Pages Editor, but it doesn't work. How do I do this?
A: Copy the file includes/languages/english/html_includes/custom/define_<page-name>.php to the parent directory includes/languages/english/html_includes/ Then the Define Pages editor will let you edit the one in custom.

Q: The promotional pages are added to the Categories sidebox by default, but I'd like to put them in the Information sidebox. How do I do this?
A: Edit the file includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_information.php (get a copy from includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/ if you don't already have one.) Copy the Copy the line from the promotional page's tpl_categories.php file that shows the discount into tpl_information.php, before the <ul> tag.

Using Quantity Discounts as an example, you would add
  $content .= '<li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_QUANTITYDISCOUNTS_PROMO) . '">' . 
      CATEGORIES_BOX_HEADING_QUANTITYDISCOUNTS_PROMO. '</a>' .  '</li>' ."\n";
  $content .= '</ul>' .  "\n";