[TYPO3-commerce] global discount for articles wanted

[Franz Koch]

Hi,

> I added a new article-type "discount", a Discount Product in the
> System-Category with a Welcome-Discount-Article that has the new
> article-type. The uid of the type and article, and the percentage of the
> discount has to be set in the ext_conf_template of the extension.
> 
> In a couple of Hooks for pi2, pi3 and commerce_pibase I did the
> discount-adding, price-recalculation and displaying stuff.
> 
> My thing is far from perfect, but I needed to get it running...
> 
> 
> I would really like a discount-system - think the additional article
> type is the way to go. Propably something really flexible with custom
> classes - like payment. I'm willing to help, but not enough time to
> build it up alone.

I don't think a additional article type is the overall solution. It 
might suite for some needs but not for all. See the following:

I also coded a discount feature for a customer. He needed a discount 
based on a fe_user group which can be overridden by a special discount 
given to a single fe_user itself. The discount is a global setting and 
applies to all articles, that are allowed for discounts.
For each product he can define, if discounts should be applied or not 
and for each article he can define if it should use the discount setting 
from the product (which is default), explicit allow or deny discounts 
for the article.

So you see that discounts can be used in various ways and therefor it's 
hard to fine ONE overall solution.

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Greetings,
Franz