[h.ziehm]

Hello guys,

my client has a list of items he wants to set on sale. The problem is that my client wants to set the prices individually per item. I remember that there was once an option in the product edit dialog to set an item on sale. This has been replaced by the catalog item discount engine. But as the price is individually set my client would have to create like 100 rules which takes a lot of time and is very unhandy regarding the workflow. Can the sale setting for the product edit dialog be restored? Or do you have an idea how we can make things easier for my client?

Best regards
Hauke

[Jez-Timms]

h.ziehm, on 27 August 2011 - 03:40 AM, said:

Hello guys,

my client has a list of items he wants to set on sale. The problem is that my client wants to set the prices individually per item. I remember that there was once an option in the product edit dialog to set an item on sale. This has been replaced by the catalog item discount engine. But as the price is individually set my client would have to create like 100 rules which takes a lot of time and is very unhandy regarding the workflow. Can the sale setting for the product edit dialog be restored? Or do you have an idea how we can make things easier for my client?

Best regards
Hauke

Hi Hauke,

This comes up every-time while I demo or train my clients on LS - there should be a field in product edit, as you say, that simply applies a sale price and also a RRP price (while we are at it).

[Aleksey]

Hi Hauke,

We can revisit this question in the feature. Now the simplest solution is extending the product model and form with the "On Sale" checkbox with a custom module.

Thank you

[h.ziehm]

Hi Aleksey,

okay, I will do that then.
@Jez-Timms: I will post the module here so you can use it for your clients, too.

Best regards
Hauke

[emergingdzns]

h.ziehm, on 28 August 2011 - 06:23 PM, said:

Hi Aleksey,

okay, I will do that then.
@Jez-Timms: I will post the module here so you can use it for your clients, too.

Best regards
Hauke

Did you have any luck creating this custom module? I'd love to use it. Thanks!

[EHLOVader]

EDITED: I replied to the first post, but emergingdzns was clearly the one who brought it up.

emergingdzns, on 19 October 2011 - 12:05 PM, said:

Did you have any luck creating this custom module? I'd love to use it. Thanks!

Were the products that get put on sale also hand picked? or does each product just get a sale price chosen upon setup, then for a period of time, group of people or group of products you have them on sale?

[dardub]

I made a similar module several months ago, but in all honesty I don't think it saves too much time. You only need to add one price rule, but you have to add each of the products to the condition.

Basically what you do is add the sale price to the new Sale Price field under the Products Pricing tab.
Then in create a new price rule, set the date, under conditions, create a compound condition where ANY subcondition should be true, then add products by sku, then under the action tab, chose Sale Price.

I don't remember why I didn't just have a checkbox on the product form that adds the condition. I probably wasn't sure how to do it at the time. I might improve this module whenever I find the time to do so.

-Darren

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[EHLOVader]

dardub, on 20 October 2011 - 03:19 PM, said:

I made a similar module several months ago, but in all honesty I don't think it saves too much time. You only need to add one price rule, but you have to add each of the products to the condition.

Basically what you do is add the sale price to the new Sale Price field under the Products Pricing tab.
Then in create a new price rule, set the date, under conditions, create a compound condition where ANY subcondition should be true, then add products by sku, then under the action tab, chose Sale Price.

I don't remember why I didn't just have a checkbox on the product form that adds the condition. I probably wasn't sure how to do it at the time. I might improve this module whenever I find the time to do so.

-Darren

Thanks for the module contribution dardub... that is actually what I was going to suggest, for emergingdzns. If the sale prices are set on initial product setup (arbitrarily, instead of percentages or a pattern) and then whenever you had the sale you hand picked the product to put on sale. Or possibly by categories (not sure if the rules offer that) then you could indicate within the sale rule that during that time those products use the sale price indicated within them.

I think that would be the reasonable route, unless the sale price is individually hand picked while also hand picking the products that should go on sale. Then your alternate solution of a check box to enable the rule at the product's end would be more helpful.

[fullphat]

I'm amazed this isn't a standard feature, why not just have a box in the price section of the product admin called sale price?

I realize there's the catalog price rules but for individual products this would be far easier for clients to implement?

Martin

[Dominic]

Hmm. A lot of effort for such a simple feature?

Was: £9.99
Now: £8.99

How hard can it be?

[blues]

Dominic, on 25 January 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

Hmm. A lot of effort for such a simple feature?

Was: £9.99
Now: £8.99

How hard can it be?

not affected me yet, but if someone wanted RRP and Our selling price then they'd presumably have the same problem

[apepp]

Dominic, on 25 January 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

Hmm. A lot of effort for such a simple feature?

Was: £9.99
Now: £8.99

How hard can it be?

...i think building an e-commerce platform is actually, not only hard, but a great deal of time and effort...i'm sure the Lemonstand crew do their best to implement a system that is as flexible as possible for developers to work with...no doubt there are a million and one "simple" features to address...this is probably one of them...however, with simplicity and power comes complications...so in answer to the attitude "how hard can it be?" is pretty insulting I think, and doesn't really help the cause to be honest...maybe even hacking the core yourself might get you there quicker.

[Aleksey]

Hi guys,

Thanks, apepp, you are perfectly right.

We will try to implement the On Sale checkbox as a simple alternative to the discount engine within 1-2 weeks.

Thank you

[Aleksey]

Hi guys,

We just published the On Sale checkbox and Sale Price or Discount field. Please update your installations.

Thank you