Ad-Hoc Special Discounts

[johnl]

This might seem a strange question but I was wondering whether there is a way that a visitor to the site could contact the site and request a special price?

By this I mean say on a furniture site the visitor wants to buy £2.2K worth of items and wants to asks whether the shop would accept £2K as a special deal?

What would be the procedure here? Is it indeed possible? I have looked through info relating to coupons/discounts etc and can't really get my head around it.

Could the owner of the site in some way create a manual order with a reduction of price at his/her discretion and then process the order at the reduced cost?

Hope this makes sense! Any comments would be gratefully received.

[fergusw]

You can add adjustment within Actinic order screen, therefore if they contacted you by phone then you could process and adjust as an offline order.

Alternatively you could created a one off coupon code that discounts a fixed amount which you could add to Actinic, upload and then inform customer of Coupon Code to use.

[mattc]

IMO, this isnt really the way trading on the internet functions. obviously i dont know your site, but i think it is very unlikely people would try to haggle in the way you are asking.

your best bet i would think, is to either...

1. put announcements and discounts in place, e.g. "Spend £2500 or more and save £500!!!"

2. Put a phone number/contact email in very extended info/at the top of each page using layouts, with a message like "Spending Over £2500? call us for an even better deal!"