=== Pricing Deals for WP E-Commerce === Contributors: vark Donate link: http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/ Tags: ecommerce, e commerce, e-commerce, commerce, WP e-Commerce, wordpress ecommerce, store, sales, sell, shop, shopping, cart, checkout, configurable, variable, widgets, reports, marketing, deals, price, discount, dynamic pricing, group pricing, wholesale, membership, role, promotion, bogo Requires at least: 3.3 Tested up to: 3.6 Stable tag: 0.2 beta License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Create incredibly flexible Pricing Deals and Marketing Promotions - Buy One Get One, Dynamic Pricing, Group Pricing, and More! == Description == **Create incredibly flexible Pricing Deals and Marketing Promotions for your store - BOGO (Buy One Get One) Deals, Quantity bulk discounts, Dynamic Pricing, Group Pricing and More!** = Pricing Functions and Marketing Promotions Used to be Hard to Do = Any sort of price changes are hard to manage in e-commerce. As things are now, the functions listed below are either unavailable, or have to be handled by multiple pieces of software. * BOGO (Buy One, Get One) deals * Special Promotions Marketing ("One Day Sale on Laptops!) * Sale Pricing across multiple products (without tedious database changes!) * Quantity bulk discounts * Group pricing * Dynamic Pricing * Wholesaler, Membership or Role Pricing (different prices for logged in users) [pro version] *With the Pricing Deals plugin,* all of these activities can be applied and managed in one place. **Pricing Deals is in Beta Release**. During the Beta release phase, please post bugs on the wp.org support page for all to see, and direct support requests on [Support](http://www.varktech.com/support/) page at varktech.com. We will try to respond to all posts within 12 hours. [Tutorials](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=tutorial) | [Documentation](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=documentation) | [Videos](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=video) | [Shameless E-Commerce](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-pro-for-wp-e-commerce/) = Pricing Deals Gives you the Tools = Pricing Deal Rules gives you all the flexibility you need to create your Pricing Deal or Marketing Promotion campaign. *Pricing Deal Rules are applied to your store as the store information is being displayed, and at add-to-cart time.* The product database pricing remains as it was originally set, while *the Rule applies the appropriate pricing deal to the live store, cart widget and checkout*. * **The Pricing Deal plugin has these primary Pricing Functions:** * Catalog Price Reduced - Discount applied in the store catalog *as the product price displays in your store* * Cart Purchase Pricing - Sale Pricing (percentage or $ value off, fixed price or free) [for every Nth] * Cart Purchase Pricing - Bogo (Buy One, Get One [Free, at a discount, etc]) * Cart Purchase Pricing - Group Pricing (Buy 5, get them for the a fixed price [or for the price of 4, ...]) The free version of Pricing Deals gives you a wide assortment of deal types and options for cross-store sales and promotions. * **The free version gives you:** * Deal Types * BOGO (Buy One, Get One) [across the store] * Sale Pricing [across the store] * Group Pricing [across the store] ("Buy 5, get them for the price of 4") * Dynamic Pricing [across the store] * Begin date / End date scheduling * Discount info *both* at Checkout and in the Cart Widget * Theme *Promotions Marketing* by displaying the Rule message via shortcode ("One Day Sale on Laptops!) * Price reductions can show as the product displays, for display Rule type * $$ You Save can show as the product displays (for display Rule type) * Audit Trail log of purchases made with Pricing Deal Rule discounts The Pro version of Pricing Deals gives you incredible control over rule groups - by category, product and more! * **The Pro version *also* gives you: (*group power*!)** * For All deal types, the Pro Version gives you group power - the additional flexibility of applying Sales and Promotions to: * *Whole Store, Wholesaler or Membership or Role (Display different prices for logged in users), Product Category and Pricing Deal custom Category, Product or Variation* * Deal Types * BOGO (Buy One, Get One) [for All] * Sale Pricing [for All] * Group Pricing [for All] ("Buy 5 Laptops, get them for the price of 4") * Dynamic Pricing [for All] ("One-Day Sale on Laptops, 10% Off!") * Product-level Deal Exclusion * Maximum Deal Limits, including "One Per Customer" limit Using *Pricing Deal Custom Categories* makes Group pricing and many other Discount Types much more powerful. * Using a Pricing Deal Custom Category in place of a store Product Category allows you to: * Group together any products you elect seamlessly * Dynamic Pricing for this Group * Grouping affects no other part of your store * Pricing Deal Custom Categories *do not affect* Product Category store organization and presentation *in any way* *[Vist the Pro Version](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-pro-for-wp-e-commerce/)* = Promotions Marketing in your Theme in Detail = * Three different shortcodes, from simple to advanced * Shortcodes can be placed anywhere in the theme [do_shortcode] and can request any messages * At the product level, you can automatically show all relevant Realtime rule type messages. For example: * "Buy 2 of this product, get one of those products free" * "Buy 2 of those products, get this product free" = BOGO (Buy One, Get One) Examples = * Buy two of these, get 10% off of both * Buy two of these, get 10% off another purchase * Buy two of these, get one of those free * etc.... Wholesale / Membership / Role / Display different prices for logged in users functionlity works with WordPress Roles. See the [Role Management FAQ](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=documentation). [Tutorials](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=tutorial) | [Documentation](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=documentation) | [Videos](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=video) | [Shameless E-Commerce](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-pro-for-wp-e-commerce/) = Additional Plugins by VarkTech.com = 1. [Minimum Purchase for WP E-Commerce](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimum-purchase-for-wp-e-commerce) 1. [Maximum Purchase for WP E-Commerce](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maximum-purchase-for-wp-e-commerce) 1. [Min or Max Purchase for WP E-Commerce](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/min-or-max-purchase-for-wp-e-commerce) == Installation == = Minimum Requirements = * WP E-Commerce 3.8+ * WordPress 3.3+ * PHP 5+ = Install Instructions = 1. Upload the folder `pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory of your site 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress == Frequently Asked Questions == Please review the following printed and video documentation. [Tutorials](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=tutorial) | [Documentation](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=documentation) | [Videos](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-for-wp-e-commerce/?active_tab=video) | [Shameless E-Commerce](http://www.varktech.com/wp-e-commerce/pricing-deals-pro-for-wp-e-commerce/) *Pricing Deals is in Beta Release*. During the Beta release phase, please post bugs on the wp.org support page for all to see, and direct support requests on [Support](http://www.varktech.com/support/) page at varktech.com. We will try to respond to all posts within 12 hours. == Screenshots == 1. Pricing Deals Rule Type Selection 2. Pricing Deals Cart Widget with Discount 3. Pricing Deals Checkout with Discount 4. Product Page with Pricing Deals Rule Message == Changelog == = 0.2 - 2013-08-18 = * Backwards Compatability Fixes - Beta = 0.1 - 2013-08-10 = * Initial Public Release - Beta == Upgrade Notice == = 0.2 - 2013-08-18 = * Backwards Compatability Fixes - Beta = 0.1 - 2013-08-10 = * Initial Public Release - Beta