2013 January to June
Better Together with One to Many support
Posted June, 2013
Zen Cart Better Together
has been enhanced to allow you to discount more than one item when
a particular item is purchased.
It's called the
One to Many
feature, and it's new in Better Together 2.5.
Perfmon
Posted June, 2013
Perfmon allows you to track down
tough Zen Cart performance problems.
Impulse Buy
Posted June, 2013
Impulse Buy has been updated
to handle the changes to array_rand() in PHP 5.2.10 and above.
This affects users of the randomize() and add_impulse_items_from_cat()
functions.
Save for Later in the Product Info page
Posted May, 2013
Save for Later now supports
saving for later from the product info page.
Final Release - Free Gift Chooser Mega Module
Posted May, 2013
The
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser Mega Module
gives you the most important parts of the Big Chooser discounting module,
along with a built-in admin panel. It is now ready for general release!
Manufacturer Discount Promotional Page
Posted May, 2013
Zen Cart Manufacturer Discount
now has a promotional page.
It's a free download for people who have bought Manufacturer Discount!
Not sure what a promotional page is or
how to use it? Take a look at my documentation on
Zen Cart Promotional Pages.
Beta Release - Free Gift Chooser Mega Module
Posted April, 2013
The
Zen Cart Free Gift Chooser Mega Module
discounting module gives you the most important parts of Big Chooser
with a built-in admin panel. It's ready as a prerelease now and will
be complete by the end of the month.
Live Demos of Admin Page Mods
Posted April, 2013
On my
Admin Demo Shop (link no longer working)
site, you can login (userid: test / password: test) and test the following
admin mods:
Better Together Admin for osCommerce 2.2 and 2.3
Posted April, 2013
At long last, I have ported
Better Together Admin for osCommerce
from the Zen Cart version of the mod.
Recalculating Tax in Zen Cart when different taxes apply to shipping than to products
Posted April, 2013
British Columbia, Canada has a tax regime under which shipping
attracts only federal sales tax, whereas products attract federal
and provincial sales taxes. Yikes. Who thinks this stuff up?
Anyway, if this applies to you, and you're using my
discounting mods, you will need to make some changes.
I have documented
Handling Zen Cart tax recalculation when shipping and product taxes differ
. The changes for osCommerce should be the same as well.
Discount Preview
Posted April, 2013
I just love seeing people use
Zen Cart Discount Preview!
Take a look at these screenshots of people using
Discount Preview
to show off their Zen Cart Discounts.
Case Discounts
Posted April, 2013
Zen Cart Case Discounts
is a new module which permits you to set a per product case size and
associated discount. It's like tiered pricing in
Zen Cart Table Discounts,
with an admin panel.
Manufacturer Discount
Posted April, 2013
Zen Cart Manufacturer Discount
now supports the user exits exclude_category() and exclude_product(),
making it easy for you to have a manufacturer discounting policy, but
also have specific exclusions.
Creating Kit Discounts using Big Chooser
Posted April, 2013
Here are a couple of examples of how to
Build Kit Discounts using Zen Cart Big Chooser.
osCommerce 2.3.x and PayPal
Posted March, 2013
It looks as though PayPal (Website Payments Standard)
can now handle osCommerce 2.3.x style
discounting modules, although it does so in a very odd way.
You can see
osCommerce Big Chooser
for an example.
PayPal Express still seems to have a problem.
BOGO module update
Posted March, 2013
A bug was found in
BOGO Discount for Zen Cart,
which will affect configurations using
Discount Basis other than "No Restriction."
Big Buy Now - a buy now button for Big Spender and Big Chooser
Posted March, 2013
The marketing text for
Zen Cart Big Spender and
Zen Cart Big Chooser
can be shown on the Product Info page of your Zen Cart; it
may also be shown on the Shopping Cart (and Checkout Shipping) page by
Big Upsell.
And using the new set_support_prod() method of
these discounting modules,
a direct link to a product can be provided. (This was possible
before set_support_prod of course; it just required more coding.)
But if we have a link to a product, and the product does not have
attributes, why not add a buy now button?
Big Buy Now
allows you to do just that! It displays a Buy Now button next
to any set_support_prod link, as long as the product does not have
attributes and may be added from a listing page.
Read more about
Cross Selling with a Zen Cart
Posted March, 2013
Are you aware of all the
Cross Selling options for Zen Cart?
I have now listed all of the cross selling methods that can
be used with my mods in one place. Hope it helps!
Automatically adding items to a Zen Cart
Posted February, 2013
Most of my mods don't update the cart contents -
there are only two exceptions.
Auto Add, which has the ability
to add an item when another item is added using the product info page.
It is sometimes used for free items or items discounted using one
of my other
Zen Cart discounting mods.
Recently a customer asked if he could do a one-time-only auto add
for a product which was commonly paired with another product, so
I updated the API to permit this behavior.
(Can you guess the other exception? It's
Coupon Auto Add!)
Coupon Restrictions in Zen Cart
Posted February, 2013
Zen Cart already has a mechanism to restrict coupons to certain specific
items. But what if you want more complex conditions - for example,
two specific items (A and B) must be in the cart? The coupon is only
applicable to a certain group?
Zen Cart Coupon Restrictions - Big Chooser Style
allows you to add
Zen Cart Big Chooser
style restrictions to specific coupons. Take a look at the
examples of restricting Zen Cart Coupons
for some ideas of how you can use it to create more targeted coupons
for your business.
Checkbox Cross Sell for Zen Cart
Posted January, 2013
Zen Cart Checkbox Cross Sell
allows your customers to add additional items (cross sells)
to their cart when buying another item.
It uses the configuration from Better Together to make suggestions from
a list of items without attributes. It's a great way to increase
the value of each customer order.
Checkbox Cross Sell is the latest addition to the
Better Together World for Zen Cart.