Duplicate existing Price Group

[cpp-dev]

When putting together price groups for promotions it would be very helpful to have a fast way to replicate a price group.

Example: There is a promotion from a manufacturer, that covers several product lines. While it would be a relatively simple matter to make a pan category/product price group and related coupon, we would like to see how this promotion affects each category. Since the discount would be the same across the products; being able to make one "base" price group that would be replicated and edited to be available to each of the coupon codes would be a time saver.

[Brennan]

We have plans to add this type of functionality in Miva 10.

Can you describe the type of changes you would typically make between each price group? Is it just a different set of products?

I'm looking for the reasons why you would not just re-use the first price group.

[cpp-dev]

Difference would be:

• Product categories
• discount descriptions

The above may be possible under the current system. I could be missing a setting combination that would cover this use case.

One of the motivators is clarity for customers and CSRs; but I may be falling to my "over-design-all-the-things" mental rat hole.

[mcrmedical]

For us, the reason we create a lot of price groups is that we need to specify different discounted items (or add-on items) for the qualifying items. We aren't often able to combine. Some of our discounted items are sold below cost as incentive to buy a specific qualifying item, and the math doesn't work if we mix qualifying items and discounted items. For example, buy a single widget and get 50% off a single accessory for it. This is below our cost for the accessory, but greatly increases our likelihood of converting an order for the widget. For a deluxe widget there is a deluxe accessory. If we discount the deluxe accessory when a customer buys a basic widget, we lose money.

The add-on products type Price Group is a bigger deal though. We do promotions where people buy a basic widget and get a basic accessory for free. The accessory only works with the qualifying item, so we need to do a whole new setup for each add-on type price group. And this is a popular type of promotion for us.

Each time we add a new Price Group we have to carefully walk through all the settings, priorities, and how it interacts with the other Price Groups, and invariably make mistakes. So, duplicating a Price Group (and all its settings) is definitely one of our top dream features. Thanks!