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How to put up rebate for product
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| Hi,
Current I am trying to put a rebate promotion in the website. but really
have no idea how to do it in the marketing manager. Any help will be really
appreciated
howey
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| Joseph Johnson 2006-10-05, 1:29 am |
| Howey,
I'm not sure of what you mean by rebate, but going by the classical
definition, this functionality is not provided out of the box. That is,
there's nothing in the marketing system that allows you to mail a check off
to somebody. That sort of thing is typically handled by a fulfillment
system.
There are a few ways to go about implementing this sort of solution, but
it's going to involve custom development.
Joe
"??" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Current I am trying to put a rebate promotion in the website. but really
> have no idea how to do it in the marketing manager. Any help will be
> really
> appreciated
>
> howey
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| Hi Joseph,
Thank you for your reply.
Can you descibe in more detail what is the sulotion to the rebate.
Commerce Server Custom Development is fine for me.
Below is the requirement of our rebate system.
1,We will need to display how much that rebate is and also the after
rebate price on the website.
2,the rebate record need to has a link to the actually rebate pdf file
3,the rebate need to have a effect date and end date
4,the rebate should be searchable and there suppose to be a page only
list the valid rebate.
5,We prefer to use the marketing manager to do the data-entry work.
howey
"Joseph Johnson" wrote:
> Howey,
>
> I'm not sure of what you mean by rebate, but going by the classical
> definition, this functionality is not provided out of the box. That is,
> there's nothing in the marketing system that allows you to mail a check off
> to somebody. That sort of thing is typically handled by a fulfillment
> system.
>
> There are a few ways to go about implementing this sort of solution, but
> it's going to involve custom development.
>
> Joe
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> "??" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C5346454-1B8F-4489-A902-30114A213603@microsoft.com...
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| Hi Joseph,
Thank you for your reply.
I'd realy like to know that few sulotion in detail. Custom Development
is fine for me.
Below is the requirement for our rebate system
1,For rebate data-entry work, we prefer to use the marketing manager to
do it.
2,the rebate amount and product after rebate price need to be display on
the page
3,the rebate record should have a column to store the actual rebate pdf
file path
4,the rebate should have a start-date and end-date property
5,the rebate should be searchable and there should be a page to list all
still valid rebate information
Any reply will be really appreciated
Howey
"Joseph Johnson" wrote:
> Howey,
>
> I'm not sure of what you mean by rebate, but going by the classical
> definition, this functionality is not provided out of the box. That is,
> there's nothing in the marketing system that allows you to mail a check off
> to somebody. That sort of thing is typically handled by a fulfillment
> system.
>
> There are a few ways to go about implementing this sort of solution, but
> it's going to involve custom development.
>
> Joe
>
> "??" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C5346454-1B8F-4489-A902-30114A213603@microsoft.com...
>
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| Joseph Johnson 2006-10-06, 7:27 pm |
| Howey,
The actual problem with setting this up as a discount is that discounts are
applied during pipeline execution and affect the real time subtotal of your
order. For example, you cannot create a discount for an item such that it
*eventually* applies to the order at the time when the customer actually
mails in the rebate. So, if you create a $20 off rebate, the pipeline can
apply it at checkout or not, it cannot tell the customer that they are
eligible for $20 off.
I could think of a pretty complex solution involving custom pipeline
component development, but you probably want to avoid doing that sort of
thing unless you're really experienced at it.
The easier solution is as follows:
I would probably create a custom table in your marketing database which
contains active rebate information (what product the rebate is for, how much
the rebate is for, the URL to the rebate in question, start date, end date,
etc). During the checkout process, I would query that table for rebates
which would apply to the line items in the order, and display the result set
on the web page. You could then subtract the dollar amount of all
applicable rebates from the subtotal/total properties of your PurchaseOrder
and display that on the page.
The unfortunate news is that you'll probably have to extend the marketing
web service to allow for creating and editing this table, and then you'll
have to crack open the marketing manager solution in the partner SDK and
extend that so that you can create and edit rebates. At this point, I don't
know if there is any documentation on this sort of thing, but I haven't
looked for it.
Also, one of the MSFT guys on here might be able to offer a more elegant
solution, but that was the easiest thing I could think of.
Joe
"??" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19A6F245-83D1-48CE-8F12-D01568C2D3B2@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi Joseph,
> Thank you for your reply.
> Can you descibe in more detail what is the sulotion to the rebate.
> Commerce Server Custom Development is fine for me.
> Below is the requirement of our rebate system.
>
> 1,We will need to display how much that rebate is and also the after
> rebate price on the website.
> 2,the rebate record need to has a link to the actually rebate pdf file
> 3,the rebate need to have a effect date and end date
> 4,the rebate should be searchable and there suppose to be a page only
> list the valid rebate.
> 5,We prefer to use the marketing manager to do the data-entry work.
>
> howey
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> "Joseph Johnson" wrote:
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