An offer creation consists of adding a new offer and configuring its properties.
Offer Sample
After enabling the Buy X Get Y add-on, you will find a pre-configured special offer in the Discounts -> Special Offers section of your store Admin area:
Sample: Spend $100 and get 50% off the cheapest - an offer that gives the buyer a 50% discount off the cheapest item if the cart subtotal is equal to or exceeds $100. The offer applies to every $100 of the cart subtotal amount.
This bid provides an example of how special offers may work for you. You can remove it or adjust the configuration to your needs. Detailed information on the special offers' management is available in Managing Special Offers.
To check the configuration of the sample offer, click on its title.
New Offer Creation
To create a new bid using the add-on Special Offers: Spend X Get Y, follow the steps below:
Go to the Special Offers page in your X-Cart store Admin area (Discounts > Special Offers).
From the New offer drop-down, select the type of offer you would like to create (Spend X Get M of items discounted/free) and click Create.
That will be the only option if you use the Spend X Get Y add-on. Any other options you may find in this box pertain to different special offers add-ons and are outside the current article's scope.
A new page will appear, where you will be able to configure your special offer's settings.
Go through all the settings on the page and configure the offer as you require. See further below for a detailed explanation of all the settings.
Make sure the status of the offer is enabled/active.
Click Create to save your changes.
Ensure the offer is displayed on the storefront in the intended locations and is available to the relevant customer groups (membership levels).
Offer Settings
The settings that need to be configured for each offer are as follows:
General settings
The settings in this section define the most general information regarding your special offer.
Offer type: The type of your offer specified at the previous step (cannot be changed).
Administrative name: The name by which you will be able to identify this offer; the name specified here only appears in your store's Admin area (in the 'Discounts: Special Offers' section).
Enabled: Whether the offer is active and can be used by your customers. Unselect the check box if you do not want the bid to be active immediately after saving.
Dates
The settings in this section allow you to specify the offer start and end times and dates. If the dates are not set, the offer is treated as open-ended.
Conditions
This section allows you to set the conditions that need to be met for your offer to be applied.
Subtotal (amount to spend): The order subtotal amount that a buyer needs to reach to become eligible for it.
From these categories: The categories from which the buyer needs to add items to the shopping cart to reach the subtotal amount specified above.
* Subcategories are marked with '—.'
** It is possible to select more than one category (Hold down the Ctrl/Shift key.)
*** For a store-wide special offer, no category selection must be made. In this case, any items added to the shopping cart (including any products on sale, products with volume discounts, and so on) will be counted towards the subtotal amount required to get this offer.
If a specific category is selected, only the SKUs from the category root will be counted. To include SKUs from subcategories, you must choose the main category and subcategories.
Eligible membership levels: The user memberships to which the offer is available. If not set, the bid is open to all buyers.
Let us see what you need to do to exclude the SKUs with volume discounts from the offer.Suppose products with volume discounts are joined under one category (Category A). In that case, select all categories from the list except for Category A in the "From these categories" box.
Suppose the SKUs with volume discounts are not joined under a particular category but are available to customers with a specific membership (like 'Wholesaler'). In this case, select "No membership" in the "Eligible membership levels" box. If there are other memberships in the store in addition to Wholesaler, you will need to select "No membership" and all memberships that need to be eligible for the offer.
Reward
This section allows you to specify the buyer's reward if the special offer is applied to their order.
Number of items to discount: The number of items that your buyer can get at a discounted price using the current offer. The discount can be as big as 100% if required.
Discount: The discount amount your buyer will get.
Discount type: The discount type (can be set as a fixed sum discount - specified in the store currency - or as a percentage (%)). If the value is 100%, the buyer will get the item(s) for free.
Exclusions
This section allows you to specify excluding conditions for the special offer application.
If the current special offer must be incompatible with other existing offers, you can specify it in this section. You can select more than one offer. (Hold down the Ctrl/Shift key.) The bids chosen in this section will prevent the current offer from being applied.
If you have, for example, Offer A and Offer B, and define Offer B as an exclusion for Offer A, Offer A and Offer B will not apply to the same products in one order. The cart will first check the order to meet Offer A's conditions and use the discounts set for Offer A if the conditions are met. Then it will scan the same order to meet Offer B's conditions, excluding the products counted for Offer A. If the Offer B conditions are met, the Offer B discounts will also apply to the order but to the different items from the order. Offer A and Offer B's discounts can be used for the same product from one order if no exclusions are set.
Offers are applied in the order of appearance on the offers listing page.Description and Promotions
This section defines how your customers will see the offer in the store.
Title: The offer title as it will appear to your customers.
Description: The detailed description of the offer.
Image: The image associated with the offer (shown on the home page, matching category pages, and Special Offers page). You can use JPG, PNG, GIF, or BMP files from your computer or an image URL from the web. The image will be resized to 160x230 pixels when displayed on the storefront.
Short promo text: The short offer description (can be shown on the home page, matching category pages, and Special Offers page).
The latter three settings (Description, Image, and Short promo text) are optional.
Further settings in this section allow you to specify the locations in which the offer image and short description will be shown (home page, matching category pages, and Special offers page):
If you want to exclude any of the locations, turn them off. The result will look as follows:Home page
Special offers page
Category page
On all the above-named pages, the information about the offer can include the offer image and the short promo text:
By clicking on either the image or the short promo text, your store visitors will be able to access the page with the full details of the offer. This page will include the offer title and, if available, the offer detailed description:
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