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Hidden Secrets of Magento Price Rules
This document provides an overview of promotion rules in Magento. It discusses: - The different types of prices in Magento like final price, minimal price, and how they are calculated. - The differences between catalog rules and shopping cart rules, including how each type is applied and the conditions that can be used. - How to customize promotion rules by creating custom condition and action models that extend the base Magento classes. - The Mage_Rule module that is used to define rules and conditions/actions in Magento. Specific implementations for catalog and sales rules are also mentioned.
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- 1. Ivan Chepurnyi Hidden Secretsof Magento Promotion Rules
- 2. About Me • Devoted to Magento Platform since 2007 • Ex Magento Core Team member • 5+ Years of Magento Development Experience • Co-Founder & Technical Director at EcomDev • Providing Training Courses for Magento Developers
- 3. Short Overview • Price Calculation Basics • Catalog Rule vs Shopping Cart Rule • The Base of Promo Rules • How To Customize
- 4. General Magento PriceTypes Final Price Minimal Price • Based on Qty & • Based on Customer Customer Group Group • Calculated • Calculated by Dynamically Indexer • Used in: • Used in: – Shopping Cart – Product List – Product View
- 5. Minimal Price It isjust minimal variation of final price
- 6. HOW IS CALCULATEDFINAL PRICE?
- 7. Final Price Option Price 1 Minimal Option Price 2 Base Price … Option Price N
- 8. Minimal Base Price • Product Price Magento takes • Tier Price minimal value • Group Price (CE1.7) from the following • Special Price calculated price • Catalog Rule Price variations.
- 9. Option Price • ConfigurableProduct Options (If Product is Configurable) • Custom Options
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- 11. Price Rules • Easyway to set up discounts for a group of products • Conditional Discounts Based on – Product Attributes – Customer Group – Shopping Cart Content
- 12. Price Rule Types CatalogPrice Rules Shopping Cart Price Rules • Pre-applied • Applied on the fly • Affect Final Product • Affect Shopping Cart Price Totals • Conditions only for • Various Set of Product Attributes Conditions – Product Sub-select – Address Match – Advanced Customer Targeting
- 13. Use Cases Catalog PriceRules Shopping Cart Price Rule • Season Sale • Buy X Get Y Free Discount Discount • Customer Group • Free Shipping on Discount Particular Items • Discount on Product • Special Discount for Attribute Match Loyal Customers (in conjunction with Customer Segment)
- 14. And finally somecode MAGE_RULE MODULE
- 15. Mage_Rule Module Condition Mage_Rule_Model_Condition_Abstract Rule Model Mage_Rule_Model_Rule Action Mage_Rule_Model_Action_Abstract
- 16. Rule Model Contains suchinformation • Conditions set • Actions set • Takes care about matched object
- 17. Condition Model • Conditionscan be complex or simple • Matched against some Varien_Object (Product, Address, Customer, etc) • All condition models extended from Mage_Rule_Model_Condition_Abstract
- 18. Action Model • Supposedto be flexible list of actions that should be performed • Currently is not used in the system
- 19. Specific Implementations Magento CommunityEdition • Mage_CatalogRule • Mage_SalesRule Magento Enterprise Edition • Enterprise_TargetRule • Enterprise_CustomerSegment
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- 21. Create Custom Condition 1.Extend from this class in gist: https://gist.github.com/4136339 2. Implement _getLabel() method 3. Implement _initProperties() method 4. Add your condition to combine condition model for existing rule
- 22. Properties Initialization protected function_initProperties() { $this->_properties = array( ‘attribute_' => array( 'label' => ‘Some Field Name’, 'type' => 'select', 'data_path' => ’data/path’, 'options' => array() ) ); }
- 23. Property Types Types: • string •numeric • date • select • multiselect
- 24. Adding To CombineCond For Sales Rules • Add observer to salesrule_rule_condition_combine • Add an array item to additional event property: $observer->getEvent()->setAdditional( Mage::getModel(‘yourcondition/model’)->getNewChildSelectOptions() );
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