How to make a discount apply to only one shipping method in Commerce Server 2007?

Question

I searched and searched for an answer for this seemingly simple question in Commerce Server 2007, but have found nothing useful. This seems like something that should be possible. How to make a discount apply to only one shipping method in Commerce Server 2007?

Answer 1

If you want a discount to be only applicable if the user selected a certain shipping method, then this is not possible out-of-the-box.

You can always write a custom pipeline component, but dealing with the discounts in the pipeline could be complicated.

Answer 2

I've run into this problem before, I had a scenario where the standard delivery option was the only one that would ever be discounted and the next day and international options would always be full price.

In this instance I wrote a custom pipeline component which removed any shipping discounts if any other shipping method other than the standard was selected.

I added this scriptor component into the total pipeline below the ShippingDiscountAdjust component, it's a bit of a hack as I've hardcoded the standard deliveries id in, but that won't ever change so I could get away with it:

    function MSCSExecute(config, orderform, context, flags)

        Dim shipments        ' SimpleList of shipments in the basket
        Dim shipment        ' An shipment dictionary from the list
        Dim sShipmentID

        ' Save shipping discounts for each shipment (as written by ShippingDiscountAdjust)
        If not isNull(orderForm.Value("shipments")) then
            Set shipments = orderForm.Value("shipments")    
            For Each shipment in shipments            
               sShipmentID = shipment("shipping_method_id")
            Next

            if sShipmentID <> "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-005719007655}" and orderForm.value("_cy_shipping_discounts_total") > 0 then
                orderform.value("_shipping_discount_description") = ""

                For Each shipment in shipments            
                     orderForm.value("_cy_shipping_total") =orderForm.value("_cy_shipping_total")  + shipment.value("_cy_shipping_discounts_subtotal")
                     shipment.value("_cy_shipping_discounts_subtotal") = 0
                Next

                orderForm.value("_cy_shipping_discounts_total") = 0
            end if
        End If

        MSCSExecute = 1
    end function

    sub MSCSOpen(config)

    end sub


    sub MSCSClose()

    end sub