Special Promotions Pro: Magento Extension by Amasty. User Guide.

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Table of contents:
1. Extension settings …………..…….…………………………………….……… 4
2. ‘The Cheapest’ and ‘The Most Expensive’ actions…….................. 5
3. ‘Each N-th with Percent Discount’ action …………………………….. 10
4. ‘Each N-th with Fixed Discount’ action ……………………….…….…. 12
5. Rule with ‘Each N-th for Fixed Price’ action ……………………..….. 14
6. ‘Each group of N for fixed price’ action …………………………...…… 16
7. ‘Each group of N with percent discount’ action ………………………18
8. ‘Buy X Get Y with Percent Discount’ action ………………………..... 20
9. ‘Buy X Get Y with Fixed Discount’ action ……………………..……... 23
10. ‘Buy X Get Y for Fixed Price’ action ……………………………….……. 24
11. ‘All products after N with Percent Discount’ action ………....…... 25
12. ‘All products after N with Fixed Discount’ action …………………. 26
13. ‘All products after N for Fixed Price’ action ……………..………..… 27
14. Display of discounts breakdown in the cart …………………….….…30
15. Rules with new actions in admin panel orders …………………..…..31
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Table of contents:
16. ‘Get $Y discount for each $X spent’ action ……………………...…... 32
17. Conditions on customer data and order history ……………………. 34
18. Conditions on order subselection ………………………………………… 35
19. ‘Fixed Price for Product Set’ action………………..……………….….…..36
20. ‘Percent Discount for Product Set’ action……………..……….…….….38
21. ‘Fixed price for bundle products’ action ………………………………..40
22. ‘Percent discount for bundle products’ action………………..……..…42
23. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Percent discount’ action……………………....44
24. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Fixed discount’ action……..……………………48
25. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Fixed price’ action………….……………………..51
26. Shopping cart rules grid functionality…………………………..………...54
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To manage the extension
settings please go to admin
panel -> System ->
Configuration -> Special
Promotions.
Set this option to ‘Yes’, if you‘d like
coupons and shopping cart price rules
not to be applied to the products with
special price.
NOTE: Items with special prices from
Catalog Price Rules will be skipped as
well.
Put ‘Yes’ to show the customers the list
of all discounts they get with each
order (e.g. if several discount rules are
applied to an order, they will see how
much discount they got with each rule).
Switch to ‘Yes’ if you want to
show which discount is applied to
which product (e.g. Discount 1:
phone , -$50, Discount 2: camera,
-$120, etc.).
1. Extension settings

At the ‘Rule Information tab
please specify the rule name,
status, websites, customer
groups, for which the rule is
intended and all the
information you may need.
To create offers based on cheapest and/or most expensive
products, please create corresponding shopping cart price
rule. For this go to admin panel > Promotions > Shopping
Cart Price Rules and click ‘Add New Rule’ button.
2. ‘The Cheapest’ and ‘The Most Expensive’ actions

Please indicate conditions,
if needed (this is optional).

You can use all standard Magento
conditions with the new actions. If you
would like to provide for free or discount
items only from a certain category or of a
particular brand, etc, please indicate the
category, brand, other conditions here.
Choose ‘The Cheapest’
action if you ‘d like to
create a rule for cheapest
products or ‘The Most
Expensive’ for most
expensive ones. You can
create as many rules with
these actions as needed.

Use ‘Discount amount’ field to indicate
discount percent for the cheapest (or most
expensive) product. You can either leave it
empty or type in 100 to give the cheapest (or
the most expensive) item for free.
Use ‘Maximum Qty Discount
is Applied To’ field to
indicate maximum number
of items for which the
discount should apply. Leave
it blank for no limitations.
Use ‘Discount Qty Step (Buy X)’
field to specify how many products
customers need to buy for the rule
to take effect. If you indicate 3 like
here, that means that from every 3
items purchased customers will get
50% off for the most expensive one.
If you leave ‘0’ (zero), customers
will get only 1 free item per order (if
conditions are met).
This rule may be advertised as ‘Buy 3 and get the most expensive product for half
the price, buy 6 - get 2 most expensive for half the price’. Please note that customers
will get discount for the items from the categories with ids 8 and 12 only and they
will never get discount for more than 2 items as the rule has ‘Maximum qty the
discount applied to’ set to 2. Please see the next page for front end example.

Please see the example of the
rule we’ve created above.
We have three items in the cart and subtotal is over
500. The most expensive product is Sony Notebook,
however it doesn’t belong to ‘Cell phones’ or
‘Cameras’ category, therefore the 50% discount is
applied to the most expensive item from one of these
categories – Olympus camera.

‘Each N-th with Discount’ action. With
this action you can create promotions like
‘each second (third, fourth, etc) camera
for 50% off (30% off or for free)’.
Use ‘Discount Amount’ field
to indicate the discount
size. Either leave ‘0’ (zero)
or type ‘100’ to give 100%
discount.
Use ‘Discount Qty Step
(Buy X)’ field to indicate
the discount step. If you
indicate ‘2’ like here, it
means that each second
item, that meets the rule
conditions, will go with
50% discount.
In this case I indicated that the rule
should apply only to products from
‘Cameras’, ‘Accessories’ and ‘Digital
Cameras’ categories.
3. ‘Each N-th with Percent Discount’ action

The calculation for ‘Each N-th with Discount’ action works this way:
1. All items that meet the rule are counted and sorted by price from highest to
lowest. Let’s say you have three items that meet the rule. They cost $50, $70
and $30. The extension will create a list with such order: $70, $50, $30.
2. After that each n-th product from the list is discounted (or made free). So if
the rule is set as each second for 50% off, in our case the $50 product will
discounted by 50%.
As you can see we have two
cameras in the cart and the second
camera goes with 50% discount,
according to the price rule.
Here’s the example of application
of the rule we’ve created above.
3. ‘Each N-th with Percent Discount’ action

4. ‘Each N-th with Fixed Discount’ action
‘Each N-th with Fixed Discount’ action.
With this action you can create
promotions like ‘each second (third,
fourth, etc) camera $50 (100, 200, etc.)
off ’.
Use ‘Discount Qty Step (Buy
X)’ field to indicate the
discount step. If you indicate
‘3’ like here, it means that
each third item, that meets
the rule conditions, will go
with $70 discount.
Use ‘Discount
Amount’ field to
indicate the discount
size. I defined $70 off
for my case.
Use this field to limit discount
amount that customers can
receive while using a
promotion.
Admin user can define what
price will be chosen as a
discount base for the action - a
special price, the price after
previous discounts or the
original item price.

The calculation for ‘Each N-th with Discount’ action works this way:
1. All items that meet the rule are counted and sorted by price from highest to
lowest. Let’s say you have three items that meet the rule. They cost $50, $70
and $30. The extension will create a list with such order: $70, $50, $30.
2. After that each n-th product from the list is discounted (or made free). So if
the rule is set as each third with $70 discount, in our case the $99 product is
discounted by $70.
As you can see we have three
products in the cart and the third of
them is $70 off.
Here’s an example of application
of the rule we’ve created above.
4. ‘Each N-th with Fixed Discount’ action

‘Each N-th for Fixed Price’ action. The action lets you discount price of
products to a fixed value (considering that the item meets the conditions
of the price rule). For example, if you have promotion ‘all contact lenses
for $20’ or ‘each second pair of jeans for $30’, you can create such
promotions using this action.Use ‘Discount Amount’ field to
indicate the fixed price. If you
indicate ’200’ here, it means
that price of the items, that
meet the rule conditions, will
be $200.
Please use this option to
specify maximal number of
items to which the discount
should be applied in one
order.
In this case we indicated that the
rule should apply only to products
from ‘Cameras’, ‘Accessories’ and
‘Digital Cameras’ categories.
X)’ setting to indicate
frequency for ‘Each’. If you
indicate 1 like here, the rule
will be applied to each item
that meets the rule
conditions. If you specify 2,
the rule will be applied to
each second item that meets
the rule conditions.
5. Rule with ‘Each N-th for Fixed Price’ action

We have 2 cameras in the cart, their
combined price is $879.99. The discount
is $479.99, which means that price of
each camera after discount is $200.
Please see the example of the rule
we’ve created above.
5. Rule with ‘Each N-th for Fixed Price’ action

to set up a special price for
the promoted groups of
products.
6. ‘Each group of N for fixed price’ action
This action allows creating promotions
like “Get group of special items for 150$”.
X)’ to specify the ‘N’ number
- how many products a
customer should buy to get a
fixed price.
Use conditions section of the ‘Actions’ tab to specify group for special
items by which the discount is triggered. In this case we indicated that
group of special items should be from categories with ID 4, 16, 17
(Shirts, Men's Shoes, Women's Shoes).

As you can see there are 4 items
in the cart. Two items from
category ‘Shirts’, one form
category ‘Men’s shoes’ and one
from category ‘women’s shoes’.
Subtotal for the whole order is
312.94$, but according to the
actions which were created in
previous step, we have a fixed
price $150 for all 4 items.
6. ‘Each group of N for fixed price’ action

Use this option to indicate
the discount amount for the
particular set of items.
7. ‘Each group of N with percent discount’ action
This action allows creating
promotions like “Get a group of
special items with 10% off.
X)’ to specify the ‘N’ number.
Here we specified ‘5’, which
means that the customer
have to buy 5 products to get
10% discount on each of
them.
Use conditions section of the ‘Actions’ tab to specify group for special
items by which the discount is triggered. In this case we indicated that
group of special items should be from categories with ID 4, 16, 17
(Shirts, Men's Shoes, Women's Shoes).

As you can see there are 5 items
in the cart. Two items from
category ‘Shirts’, one form
category ‘Men’s shoes’ and two
from category ‘women’s shoes’.
Subtotal for the whole order is
$363.89, but according to the
actions that was created in the
previous step, we have a price
with 10% discount.
7. ‘Each group of N with percent discount’ action

‘Buy X Get Y with Discount’ action. You can create
promotions like ‘buy 3 phones and get a camera with
20% discount’. Below we’ve created this rule.
Use ‘Discount Amount’ field to
indicate the discount percent.
Please see the next page for
further explanation on this action.
Also you can specify SKUs of the
individual products to which the
discount should be applied
(these are Y items as well).
If you specify both categories
and SKUs like here, the discount
will be applied to both
individual items and to products
from the categories.
8. ‘Buy X Get Y with Percent Discount’ action

Please use ‘Maximum Qty
Discount is Applied To’ to
specify the maximal
number of items to which
the discount should be
applied in one order.
Use ‘Discount Qty Step (Buy X)’ setting to
indicate the number of ‘X’ items. If you
specify 3 like here, it means that a customer
will have to buy 3 ‘X’ items to get 20%
discount for one ‘Y’ item.
Note: if you specify 0 (zero) in this field then
a client will get the discount only for one of
the several ‘Y’ items in the cart.
Use conditions section of the ‘Actions’ tab to specify ‘X’ items, by
which the discount is triggered. In this case we indicated that ‘X’
items should be from the category with ID 8 (Cell Phones). Please
be aware that ‘X’ items and ‘Y’ items should not meet each other
conditions.
Here you can indicate to
which categories the
discounted items (Y
items) belong to.

Let’s see how the rule
works. There are 3 phones
in the cart and 2 cameras.
Only one camera gets the 20%
discount as it meets the rule
conditions.

9. ‘Buy X Get Y with Fixed Discount’ action
‘Buy X Get Y with Fixed Discount’ action. You can
create promotions like ‘buy 3 phones and get a
camera $50 off’.Use ‘Discount Amount’ field to
indicate the discount amount.
Use ‘Promo Categories’
setting to indicate to
which categories the
discounted items (Y
items) should belong.
Also you can specify SKUs of
the individual products to
which the discount should
apply (these are Y items as
well). If you specify both
categories and SKUs like here,
the discount will apply to both
individual items and to
products from the categories.
Use conditions section of the ‘Actions’ tab to
specify ‘X’ items, by which the discount is
triggered. In this case we indicated that ‘X’ items
should be from category with ID 8 (Cell Phones).
Please be aware that ‘X’ items and ‘Y’ items can’t
be the same products.

The only difference of ‘Buy X Get Y for Fixed Price’ action from ‘Buy X
Get Y with Discount’ action is that instead of percent discount
products are discounted to a fixed amount. By this rule if a customer
buys three phones, he or she can buy any camera for just $200.
to indicate the amount to
which ‘Y’ products should
be discounted. If you specify
200 like here, the ‘Y’
products will cost 200 after
the discount rule gets
applied.
10. ‘Buy X Get Y for Fixed Price’ action
IMPORTANT. Please be
aware that ‘Buy X Get Y for
Fixed Price’ and ‘Buy X Get Y
with Discount’ actions work
only with simple and
configurable products.

Use ‘Discount Amount’
field to indicate the
discount percent.
11. ‘All products after N with Percent Discount’ action
‘All products after N with Discount’ action works
on analogy with ‘All products after N for Fixed
Price’. But in this case customers get percent
discount instead of fixed price.
With this setup customers
have to buy 3 items for the
full price to get 20%
discount for the
additional items. The
quantity of additional
item is limited; in our case
a customer can buy no
more than 2 products
with 20% discount.

Use ‘Discount
Amount’ field to
indicate the fixed
discount amount.
12. ‘All products after N with Fixed Discount’ action
‘All products after N with Fixed Discount’ action
works on analogy with ‘All products after N with
Percent Discount’. Only in this case customers get
fixed discount amount (e.g. $70) instead of percent
discount like 30%.

to indicate the amount to
which products ‘after N’
should be discounted. If
you specify 100 like here,
all products which exceed
the ‘N’ number will cost 100
after the discount rule gets
applied.
13. ‘All products after N for Fixed Price’ action
With this action you can create promotions like
‘buy 4 products for full price and get each
additional product for $100’. Or ‘Buy 5 shirts for
full price and get each additional one for $20’
(Buy X)’ to specify the ‘N’
number. Here we specified
‘4’, which means that the
customer will buy 4 most
expensive products for full
price and all additional
products for the fixed price
$100.
Please see the next page for
further explanation on this action.

Please use ‘Maximum
Qty Discount is Applied
To’ to specify maximal
number of items to which
the discount should be
applied in the order. If
you specify 3 like here, it
will get no more than 3
products for the fixed
price of $100.

As you can see there are six
items in the cart. Two cheapest
items (Ottoman and BlackBerry
8100 Pearl) are for $100
according to the discount rule.

In configuration section of the extension you can
enable display of discount breakdown. So
customers will be able to see what discounts they
are getting with each particular order. Also if you
enable display of products in the breakdown,
customers will see which products are discounted.
Rule labels (filled in at the ‘Labels’ tab of the
shopping cart price rule in admin panel) are
displayed in this block. In this case ‘Buy any phone
for $100’ and ‘each 2nd camera for 50%’ are labels
of the corresponding rules.
14. Display of discounts breakdown in the cart

Rules with new discount actions work for orders in
admin panel as well.
As you can see on this screenshot, ‘Buy any phone
for $100’ and ‘each 2nd camera for 50%’ rules got
applied correctly for order placed via admin panel.
15. Rules with new actions in admin panel orders

16. ‘Get $Y discount for each $X spent’ action
This action allows creating promotions like “Get a
$50 discount for each $300 spent”.
to set up a discount which a
customer will have for each
total spent.
(Buy X)’ to specify the ‘X’
number. Here we
specified ‘300’, which
will get a $50 discount for
each $300 spent.

The order amount is 337.93$,
but according to the actions
which was created in previous
step, customer will have a 50$
discount for the order, because
the cart subtotal is more that
300.
16. ‘Get $Y discount for each $X spent’ action

You can specify either complete
email or just email domain if you
want all customers with certain
email domain to receive a discount
(in such case you will need to use
‘contains’ operator instead of ‘is’).
You can specify similar masks for
first name and last name.
The extension adds a number of new
conditions to the ‘Conditions’ tab:
- Based on customers’ personal data such
as email, first name, last name, date of
birth, gender and ID.
- Based on customers’ order history,
such as number of completed orders
and total amount previously spent at
the store.
- Orders sub selection to define average
order value, total sales amount and
number of placed orders with
additional condition based on status of
order (complete, etc.) and period
after order was placed.
17. Conditions on customer data and order history

With ‘Orders Subselection’ you can
adjust conditions based on order
value and amount more accurately.
You can define:
- Average order value
- Total sales amount
- Number of placed orders
For each of these conditions you can define additional conditions:
- Order status (cancelled, complete, etc.)
- Period after order was placed
18. Conditions on order subselection
How it works?
Let’s say the customer created a number of orders which
were later cancelled. With these functionality it’s easy to
count only complete orders to give a discount for a
customer.

This action enables you to
offer a fixed price for a
particular product set.
Specify the categories
where the rule should be
applied.
Note: you shouldn’t
apply both Promo
Categories and Promo
Items at the same time.
In this field specify the
fixed price for the product
set.
19. ‘Fixed Price for a Product Set’ action

The items we’ve added to cart meet the conditions
we’ve specified in the Actions tab (see previous step),
therefore the product set costs a fixed price $300
instead of $449.
19. ‘Fixed Price for a Product Set’ action

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This action enables you
offering a percent discount for
a particular product set.
20. ‘Percent Discount for product set’ action
Specify the SKU of
the promo items to
which the rule should
be applied.
Specify the discount
amount in this field.
You can use Promo
Categories instead of Promo
Items.
Note: you shouldn’t apply
both Promo Categories and
Promo Items at the same
time.

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We’ve added to the cart particular
products listed in the rule actions (see
previous step), thus a 25% discount is
applied to the whole product set.
20. ‘Percent Discount for product set’ action

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Create a new rule and
choose ‘Fixed amount
discount’ for this field.
Specify bundle products to
which you want to apply the
rule.
21. ‘Fixed discount for bundle products’ action

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You can see that a customer
got fixed amount discount
equal 100$ (that we’ve set up
on the previous page) for the
bundle product.
21. ‘Fixed discount for bundle products’ action

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22. ‘Percent discount for bundle products’ action
Create a new rule and
choose the type of discount
you want to apply.
Specify bundle products to
which you want to apply the
rule.

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See the example of the
percent discount applied to
a bundle product.
22. ‘Percent discount for bundle products’ action

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23. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Percent discount’ action
‘Each M-th after X-th with Percent
Discount’ action. With this action you can
create promotions like ‘Buy 3 books for
full price and get each second one with
15% discount.’
to indicate the discount
size. Either leave ‘0’ (zero)
or type ‘100’ to give 100%
discount.
Use ‘Qty X’ setting to indicate the
number of ‘X’ items. If you specify
3 like here, it means that a
customer will have to buy 3 ‘X’
items to get a 20% discount for the
‘M’ items.
Admin user can define what
price will be chosen as a
discount base for the action - a
special price, the price after
previous discounts or the
original item price.

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Here you can specify
maximal number of items to
which the discount should
be applied in one order.
Indicate the number of ‘X’
items. If you specify 3 like
here, it means that a
customer will have to buy 3
‘X’ items to get a 20%
discount for the ‘M’ items.
Use this field to limit
discount amount that
customers can receive
while using a promotion.
Specify ‘0’ when you don’t
want to limit maximum
possible discount.

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Indicate a discount step. If
you specify ‘2’ like here, it
means that each second
item, that meets the rule
conditions, will go with 20%
discount.
Use conditions section of the
‘Actions’ tab to specify ‘X’
items, by which the discount
is triggered.

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Kenneth Cole shoes are the
5th shoes in the cart, that is
why they get 20% discount
as it should be according to
the rule limitations.

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24. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Fixed discount’ action
Choose ‘Fixed Discount’
action.
Specify fixed discount
amount.
With this rule you can
create promotions like ‘Buy
3 books for full price and
get each second one with
$20 discount’.

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Use ‘Each M-th product’
field to indicate a discount
step. If you indicate ‘2’ like
here, it means that each
second item, that meets the
rule conditions, will go with
$20 discount.
possible discount.

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Indicate the number of ‘X’
‘X’ items to get a $20
discount for the ‘M’ items.
Specify maximal number of
order.
Use conditions section of the
‘Actions’ tab to specify ‘X’
items, by which the discount
is triggered.

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25. ‘Each M-th after X-th: Fixed price’ action
Choose Fixed
price action.
Create promotions like ‘Buy
3 books for full price and get
each second one for $20
only’.
Indicate the amount to
which ‘M’ products should
be discounted. If you
specify 20 like here, the ‘M’
products will cost $20 after
the discount rule is applied.

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Specify a discount step. If
you indicate ‘2’ like here, it
means that each second item
that meets the rule
conditions will cost $20.
only’.
possible discount.

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Use ‘Qty X’ setting to
indicate the number of ‘X’
‘X’ items to get ‘M’ items for
a fixed price.
only’.
Specify maximal number of
order.

With the extension you get several new columns at the
shopping cart price rules grid (admin panel -> Promotions ->
Shopping Cart Price Rules): Action (shows the action chosen
for the rule), Discount (shows the discount amount for the
rule), Stop (whether to stop rules processing after this rule).
It adds ‘Actions’ dropdown to the
grid. You can apply the actions
both to single and to multiple
rules right on the grid (we’ll
explain in more details further
on).
Also there’s new ‘Duplicate’ action, with the help of
which you can duplicate individual rules. It can be
very useful when you have several similar rules, this
way you will use the first rule as a template, which
will save you a lot of time with complex rules.
User Guide: Special Promotions
26. Shopping cart rules grid functionality

Once you click the ‘Duplicate’
action link, you will get to the page
of the duplicate rule, where you
will be able to make the necessary
edits and save the new rule.

‘Activate’ action lets you activate
any number of price rules.
Just pick the rules and click
‘Submit’ button next to the
‘Actions’ dropdown.
‘Deactivate’ action on the opposite enables
you to deactivate shopping cart price rule.
To make it work please take the same steps
as with the ‘Activate’ action.

‘Top Priority’ action lets you raise priority of
any price rule (or a number of rules) to the
top. If you had some rules with 0 (zero)
priority before applying the action, these
rules would get downgraded.
‘Lowest Priority’ action vice versa
will help you quickly downgrade
rules to the lowest priority.

‘Delete’ action lets you get rid of
unnecessary price rules. It can be used
for quick deleting of test/demo rules ,
rules that were created by mistake or the
ones you just don’t need anymore.

Thank you!
Should you have any questions or feature suggestions, please contact us at
Your feedback is absolutely welcome!
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