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Purchase product X and receive a coupon for Y amount/percent Put NEARLY All Products On Sale
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Put a product on sale

This tutorial describes the steps to put a product on sale for a specified length of time.

Overview
  • The specified product's price will be reduced in the storefront.
To replicate this type of functionality in your store, use the Event Engine Editor to create an event with the following Triggers and Results:



General Information
In the General Information section, set the desired Start Date and End Date. The sale price will be applied to the product through the dates specified. (The End Date can also be set to Never Expires, which would keep the sale price going indefinitely.


Triggers
In the option titled How to apply the Triggers below, select the option: This event doesn't use triggers. This will allow the sale price to be applied to the storefront automatically, without the need for the customer to enter a coupon code, add a product to their basket, or perform any other action.


Results
The event's result(s) should be set up as follows.

result 1 of 1
Type: product pricing
Details: The price of product SID 123 is  decreased  10 percent

In the example above, change "123" to SID number of the product to be discounted.

— Last Edited - 11/8/2012 2:03pm PST
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