ItemPromo

The ItemPromo component, which usually appears in the Item Adjust Price Stage of an order processing pipeline, applies a promotional price adjustment to an item on the order form’s items list. The ItemPromo component first determines whether the current date falls within the time period specified by the Start Date and End Date fields. If it does, then the component evaluates the item to determine if it meets the conditions of the promotion (specified by the combination of the Condition Order Key, Condition Operator, and Condition Value fields). If it does, then the ItemPromo component applies the specified discount and writes the new value to the item’s _iadjust_currentprice field on the order form, provided that _iadjust_currentprice has not been initialized by a previously run component.

• υCondition Order Key. Specifies the name of the item attribute that identifies the condition that must be met before the promotion is applied (for example, _product_type).
• υCondition Operator. Specifies an operator (<, <=, =, >=, >, or <>) that the ItemPromo component uses to compare the value of Condition Order Key with the value in the Condition Value box.
• υCondition Value. Specifies what product or products must be purchased before the promotion is applied. The value in this field is compared with the value in the column whose name is specified in the Condition Order Key field. This value can be text, an integer or a floating-point number.
• υDiscount Type. Specifies whether the discount is a percentage-off discount or a price discount.
• υDiscount Value. Specifies amount of the discount. This must be an integer value; floating point numbers (for example, .10) are not accepted.
• υStart Date. (Optional) Specifies the date the promotion begins, starting at 12:00:01 a.m.
• υEnd Date. (Optional) Specifies the date the promotion ends, ending at 12:00:01 a.m. For example, if you want the last day of a promotion to be 3/31, you would specify an End Date of 4/1.

Example

To indicate that items manufactured by Tailspin Toys are at a 15% discount between two specified dates, double-click the ItemPromo icon in the Win32®-based Pipeline Editor, or click the Edit link for the component in the ASP-based Pipeline Editor, and then enter the following in the resulting property page.

Important

The promotional comparisons that you specify in Conditional Value are case-sensitive. For example, product ID AW13-200 will be interpreted differently than aw13-200.

In addition, because the Start Date and End Date for a promotion specify midnight, End Date excludes the day specified. For example, if you want the last day of a promotion to be 3/31, be sure to specify that the promotion ends on 4/1.

Related Topics

• υHow To Implement Promotions