Or anything of similar type. I have tried several ways with the current version and cannot seem to get it. If this is already in there then maybe someone can shed some light on how they did it.

Buy one get one free; Spend 100.00 and receive a free product(gift). Those make great selling features, on my particular site.

If this is not available yet, then voila, there's my request. Great product, and great support!

Hi Mark,

thanks for the reply. Yes I use the reward points extensively. I even give customers 75 points for joining and making a first purchase. I have tried creating a GC with a certain product, that would be given free if they spent x amount of dollars. This would work fine but I have yet to finaggle the code to automatically enter it at the verify order screen.

As you mentioned .33 for a third back is fine, but it doesn't allow them to use it until their next visit. The points, as far as I know, are not added to their account until the order is processed.

I'd like to have this option more of a marketing idea to get the customer to buy items based on useable real time promotions.

Hope that made a bit of sense. Again thanks for the reply!

Interesting.

So I could then make a downloadable product, which is no charge to the customer correct? I might be able to work with something like that. I'll go read the guide on downloadables and see what I can come up with.

I like that idea. Thanks Mark, I'll post here if I can work something out.

Mark,

I was able to use your ideas to accomplish a compimise between what I wanted and what I get .

I overlooked the bundled discounts altogether and with the cross selling feature things are looking pretty good. The downloads I misunderstood. My site does not use downloadable files, but I was hoping I could set one of my apparel products as a download but not treat it like a file.

I'd still like to see a feature that allows the admin to simply set a product to give to a customer for free when they spend a certain amount. Once this requirement is met it is automatically added to the cart, or on the verify order screen if not an apparel product.

Once again thanks for all your input and nice job on your site. Good luck in the future.

Hi Rick

This has been a major thorn in my side. It's such a useful feature I was sort of dumbfounded when I realized I couldn't do it. I've tried figuring it out based on percentage discounts but that doesn't work. I'll go see if I can work something out with the cross selling/bundled package features.

I'd love to know what you came up with.

Thanks

ed

Hi Ed,

actually I never got it to do what I wanted but came up with some other ideas using the features provided that customers seem to like. Offering them a free product over a certain amount (needs coupon code). One way around it if you make the total amount required the same as 3 items (Buy 3 get one free).

Bundled products would work I think if you don't have apparel products. Since I use apparel products I can not use the bundle feature since the customer has to select a color or size( this feature should be implemented for all users, providing selection boxes where the bundled products are displayed). Right now it's a feature I cannot use.

Sorry I could not have been of more help Ed.

Take care.

Rick

My apologies for not replying. I was cleaning out my mailbox and came across your last message.

The discounts I use are pretty much hidden and in the form of coupon codes so you wont really see much, but here's the site address anyhow.

www.eveningsecrets.com

My approach is to use a category based discount with a banding of 3 products and a 33% discount.  (see menu > Marketing / Quantity Discounts By Category).

So you could set up a 'Our 3 for 2 sale' category and associate the chosen products with it (which could be all of them).

cheers

Mark