How does the buy x, pay for y discount work?

Art. no. 216070379

Buy 3, pay for 2, etc.

Discounts work by deducting the value of one or more products at checkout. The discount only appears at checkout for the buyer. If you want to show a discount directly on the product page, you should enter the extra price of the product instead. If you want to discount the total at checkout, use gift cards instead.

If there are several active discounts, the system will select the best discount for each product. You can only get one discount per product.

Discounts are included in the Abicart Plus and Pro subscriptions.

Create buy X pay for Y discount

Click on Discounts -> New discount -> Buy X, pay for Y discount.

Name of the discount

Enter a name for the discount. This name will appear in admin as well as at checkout and on the order confirmation. In our example we enter "Buy 3, pay for 2"

Discount settings

There are two choices here. "Buy (quantity):" is the quantity of the item that the customer must have in the cart for the discount to be activated. In our example, we enter a three in this field.

In the "Pay for (quantity):" field, we enter the number of items the buyer should pay for. In our example, we enter a two here.

Note: This discount only works on one product. It is not possible to mix different products.

Scheduling

If you want the discount to apply only for a certain period of time, you can specify the start and end dates. Remember that the day starts at 00.00 and ends at 23.59.
For example, if you want a discount that is valid for one day, enter 2022-01-01 at 00.00 as the start time and then 2022-01-01 at 23.59 as the end time.

Codes

If you want customers to enter a discount code to activate the discount, check the "Use codes" box. At the bottom of the box, existing codes are displayed on the discount.

To create a new code, click on "Add code".

In the "Code" field you can enter your own discount code. Click on the "Generate" button and a code will be created automatically.

Number of times the code can be used

If you want to limit the code to only a certain number of purchases, enter a number in the field. Otherwise the code is unlimited.

Product selection

Here you set which product or products should be affected by the discount. If you want the discount to apply to all products, check the box to the right of "Entire range". You can also search for a specific product by entering its name or article number. You can also select entire product groups.

NOTE! If a product belongs to several product groups, you can now choose whether the discount should only apply to the product's primary product group, which is the default setting, or whether it should apply to all product groups to which it belongs. You make this setting under Catalogue-> Settings -> Article group settings.

Customer selection

Here you can control which customers should have access to the discount. You can choose between "All customers", "All customers who are not logged in", "All logged in customers" or a specific customer group.

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