Re: Promo items

Posted by Bob Morley on Apr 29, 2010; 11:56am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Promo-items-tp2073637p2075342.html

We have not implemented promos to date, but can you comment on how the  
promo adjustments would be created for a quantity like 1.542?  I would  
agree rhat having a single adjustment for the order item line (per  
promo) would make the most sense.

Bob

On 2010-04-28, at 1:16 PM, Ean Schuessler <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The OFBiz promo code processes product quantities as singletons. If a
> large quantity of an item is added to the cart (ie. 2,000) and there  
> is
> a promo for that product then the result is both a large quantity of
> promo adjustments as well as a long processing time for the cart. For
> some industries large order quantities are perfectly reasonable but  
> the
> current OFBiz design will fail.
>
> Does anyone have any perspective on this issue? One possible solution
> would be to remove the part of the promo design that reduces promo  
> items
> to singletons. I realize that introduces other challenges but they  
> seem
> to be deterministic. The singleton processing approach seems like an
> effort to keep the implementation simple.
>
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