Magento - Buy 2 items get % discount

Question

Hi there,

I'm trying to set up a price rule in Magento so that users get 15% off for every 2 items they add to their shopping cart in Magento.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you already checked out the Shopping Cart Price Rules setup? It isn't the most intuitive setup screen. Admin -> Promotion -> Shopping Cart Price Rules -> [setup]. I am not sure exactly what you mean by your rule, but the "Percent of product price" option will likely be the one you need. Depending on how you want it to work you could have all products in your condition statement.

This tutorial gives a basic overview, but since it isn't exhaustive you will probably have to play around with it a bit to make sure it works just how you want. http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/what-are-shopping-cart-price-rules-and-how-do-i-use-them

Good luck

Edit (after your comment I thought I would include an example to help illustrate)

First of all, your details on how you want your discount to be setup are quite skimpy. This example has several assumptions that may not jive with what you want to do, but I figure it might be helpful to you so you.

Add a new Shopping Cart Price Rule... the Rule Information tab is pretty simple stuff so I won't mention it. The Conditions and Actions tabs are the most important.

I am going to assume that you want this discount to apply to ALL products on your site. On the Conditions tab go ahead and leave the "If ALL of these conditions are TRUE :" section alone, and then change the line below it to "Subtotal equals or greater than 75.00" - this assumes of course that you want to start discounting at the $75 level (which might not be exactly what you are looking for - but if you explore the options you will likely find what you want).

Then go to the Actions tab and choose "Percent of product price discount" from the Apply option. Put 15 in the Discount Amount box. This is obvious what it means, but the next fields aren't so obvious. Put 10 in the Maximum Qty Discount is Applied to box. This will make it so that the customers can only get the 15% discount on up to 10 items. Change this to 1000000 if you don't want a "limit" (although 0 might work as well, haven't tried it). Put 1 in the Discount Qty Step box. This controls how often the discount is applied. By putting 1 every item will get the discount; putting 5 would make it so that the 15% discount would apply only after 5 items were added.

One last thing that is overlooked is the section at the bottom of the Actions tab. It is pretty nice because this is where you can specify exactly which products will receive the discount, if you only want to give the discount on a subset of your products.

Anyway, this is a very brief explanation, and it is likely that your discount rules won't be exactly how I described in this short example, but I think it is likely that if you read the link I provided above you will find that magento covers most cases.