100% off discount cart display

[kevster]

We have a client that wants to offer 100% discounts on products by emailing people a coupon code to use.

All works fine but in the cart only the line item is displayed, no totals or discount info as the total is 0.00

when the order is downloaded all view fine in the orders tab - discount is shown as 100% etc but the email and receipt reflect the cart page i.e. no info after the line item which is confusing.

I guess the solution is a perl hack but any clues would be great please so we can display the discount/adjustment info still and ideally the total which would be 0.00.

[los_design]

I have checked the diary and April is still away off??

100% off...got a link, me gonna buy some of that

Just set them with no price and hide them under a login??

[kevster]

sounds like an april 1st one doesnt it!

What we have actually done is set up a one time use voucher system that runs off mysql and amended perls scripts so we can generate vouchers in a php admin seciotn that people can only redeem once.

Its quite cool cos it all hooks into the existing actinic coupon system so displays the info in the cart etc, it checks the actinic coupon list and also our db - if the sale is successful and its one of our coupons the db updates so the coupon cannot be re-used.

Its really for sending out competition freebies etc but we will try and develop it for gift vouchers that can be bought too...

need to display the total though and the discount text though so as not to confuse people...

[cdicken]

Within the layout called 'Total Row in Cart' (you can find this by searching in the library) there are the following tags...

<Actinic:REMOVE TAG="TotalRow">

</Actinic:REMOVE>

These tags are responsible for hiding the 'Total' row if the value of the shopping basket is 0 . You could try removing these, to see the effect.

...

Oops, I've just tested this, and you end up with NETQUOTEVAR:TOTAL appearing in the cart when those tags are removed. Not much use. Without maybe some Perl customisation I'm not sure you can do this. Sorry.

[kevster]

Hi Chris,

We have managed to up date one of the perl scripts - think it was actinicorder.pm and have this working now. Just need to add to the email as well.

Got some anomalies with VAT though and coupons. If you go to skinem.whitehatmedia.com and add this product http://skinem.whitehatmedia.com/acat...irls_1_96.html - choose a laptop @ 19.95 then in the cart enter 20pound as coupon (actual net value 16.97) it shows the amount off and vat of 0.00 which we would expect but then a total of 0.01.

Looks like 19.95 products are one of those VAT rounding nightmare price points, changing the coupon to 16.98 also is a penny out. we have vat set to truncate.

Other products seem to work ok - just ones at 19.95 being a problem