I have a Starter Site up with Commerce Server 2002 and FP1. I have
created a 70-dollar off discount for category Boots in the Discount
Manager. I made sure that Start and End dates for the discount are
correct, and that the discount is approved.

Nevertheless, when I view the Catalog I see that the prices for boots
remain unchanged.

How can I see that discounts really work or how do I make them work?

Thank you,
Stanislav

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Stanislav,

The discounts are applied when the item is placed in the basket and not to
the catalog. So add a product under the category boots to your basket, you
should be able to see the discount applied when you view the cart.

"Stanislav Vonog" wrote:

> I have a Starter Site up with Commerce Server 2002 and FP1. I have
> created a 70-dollar off discount for category Boots in the Discount
> Manager. I made sure that Start and End dates for the discount are
> correct, and that the discount is approved.
>
> Nevertheless, when I view the Catalog I see that the prices for boots
> remain unchanged.
>
> How can I see that discounts really work or how do I make them work?
>
> Thank you,
> Stanislav
>

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Thanks Ravi,

I didn't check the basket because currently it does not work on my dev envt
(some problems with SSL).

But what is the way to show the available discounts in the catalog? Ads?
From my perspective, it is strange for a customer when they see that boots
cost $100 and after they add the boots to the basket they suddenly become
only $30.

It is also good to show the discounted price on the catalog from the
business perspective.

Thank you,
Stanislav

"Ravi Shankar" wrote:
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> Stanislav,
>
> The discounts are applied when the item is placed in the basket and not to
> the catalog. So add a product under the category boots to your basket, you
> should be able to see the discount applied when you view the cart.
>
> "Stanislav Vonog" wrote:
> 

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Yes. You'll have to use Ads and attache it to the condition where SKU = "you
r
product code"

However displaying the ad with the product is a different ball game all
togather. Firstly you need to extend the "targeting context" profile to add 
a
field like product_code.... Then on the product listing page or product
detail page you'll have to create a CSF pipeline and assign the product SKU
to the pipeline targeting context sku.. then execute the CSF to obtain the
ads and display it on the page.

Have fun.

"Stanislav Vonog" wrote:
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> Thanks Ravi,
>
> I didn't check the basket because currently it does not work on my dev env
t
> (some problems with SSL).
>
> But what is the way to show the available discounts in the catalog? Ads?
> From my perspective, it is strange for a customer when they see that boots
> cost $100 and after they add the boots to the basket they suddenly become
> only $30.
>
> It is also good to show the discounted price on the catalog from the
> business perspective.
>
> Thank you,
> Stanislav
>
> "Ravi Shankar" wrote:
> 

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Another way to show discount pricing in the catalog is to run the Product
pipeline. Basically you have to create an orderform, add your product to it
as a single line item, and then run that orderform through the Product
pipeline which includes the discount components. This is helpful for getting
simple discount pricing, but less helpful for discounts that depend on how
many of a product you buy. Depending on how many products you're showing on
a page, there is also some performance impact to this approach - not bad for
a product page, but more of an impact on a category page.

--
Zoe Hart
Commerce Server MVP

"Stanislav Vonog" <Stanislav Vonog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7E3BDE6F-9A68-4051-99AF-3132235C38B1@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks Ravi,
>
> I didn't check the basket because currently it does not work on my dev
> envt
> (some problems with SSL).
>
> But what is the way to show the available discounts in the catalog? Ads?
> From my perspective, it is strange for a customer when they see that boots
> cost $100 and after they add the boots to the basket they suddenly become
> only $30.
>
> It is also good to show the discounted price on the catalog from the
> business perspective.
>
> Thank you,
> Stanislav
>
> "Ravi Shankar" wrote:
> 

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