How to setup Quantity based discounts

In this document we will describe how to create quantity based discounts.

You must be on ELITE subscription for this to work.

There are two main ways of doing this.

• Pricing Tables
• Inline discounts and dropdown or radio buttons.
  
  Either method will work you can combine both methods if you want.

Pricing Tables Method #

Create a pricing table.
This will be used to hold quantity discounts depending on the quantity selected.

1. Go to Option tab.
   
2. Click Add New -> Lookup
   
   
   
   we wont create a lookup option but we will use the user interface for a lookup option to create a pricing table that will hold our quantity based discounts.
   
3. Click Add Pricing Table.
   
   
4. Create an pricing table for quantity discount. 
   
   You can give this any name but remember the name for later.
   
   
   
   
   Column A represents the quantity discount breaks
   Column B represents the discount amount. This can expressed as a % or as a $ amount. The way you input this will change how you set up your discount formula.
   
   If you input a % here, do not include % sign and you will need to input this as a decimal, not as a whole number (Enter 25% as 0.25 rather than 25). Later will multiple your price by this value to get the percent discount.
   
   The value in Cell B1 is an arbitrary constant and can be anything. I just needs to be a whole number. We will use this number later in our lookup table variable. Row 1 represents the first variable in a pricing table lookup formula. Column A represents the second input.
   
   You will later reference a discount from this table as:
   
   quantitydiscount_pt[ Row 1 value, Column A value]
   
   quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, 300] = this will select the discount of 0.20
   
   quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, 500] = this will select the discount of 0.30
   
   quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, product_quantity] = this will select the appropriate discount based on user input for product quantity.
   
5. Save Pricing table.
   
6. Do not save lookup option. you can close this window.
   

Add the pricing table lookup formula to your option set formula calculation.

1. Open an option set you want to apply a quantity discount to.
   
   
   
2. On the Option Set General tab, select Discount Type -> Formula
   
   

The next steps will depending on your Option Set Configuration.


If you are using a Dollar discount in your quantity discount table:

Enter the following into your discount calculation:

quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, product_quantity ]

This will set the discount to the value found in the pricing discount table.

If you are using a Percent discount in your quantity discount table:

If Automatically Add Option Values in unchecked.

In this case you are using a custom formula to calculate price. We will need to use this custom formula in the discount calculation.

You must enter the full option set price calculation and multiple this by the quantity discount lookup table variable.

Let’s assume you calculate product price as:

length*width*12



Your Discount Calculation should be as follows:

(length*width*12)*quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, product_quantity ]

This formula will calculate you product price then multiple it by the discount percent found in the quantity lookup table.

The final result passed to the calculation will be a dollar amount equivalent to the percent discount.


If Automatically Add Option Values in checked.

This means Option Price Calculator is automatically adding all option values together to determine the final price.

You will need to replicate what Option Price Calculator is doing automatically for you in the Discount formula field.

Example:
You have an option set with three options.
– size
– trim
– color

Since Automatically Add Option Values is checked, the calculator will perform the following calculation automatically to determine the price.

size + trim + color

Your Discount Calculation should be as follows:

(size + trim + color)*quantitydiscount_pt[ 1, product_quantity ]