Providing purchase discounts to customers for placing early orders

Does anyone know where I can setup, say a 10% discount, on a purchase for customers who place an early order for a product before a specific date? I've tried the Help files and looked in the Business Settings menu, but to no avail.... please help. I'm using Actninic v4.

[wjcampbe]

It depends on what vesion of Actinic you are using.

To set an overall discount in Catalog, go to View|Discounts and Surcharges and add the discount. There is a setting for expiry date.

You will need Business or higher to set an individual item by creating a product group.

[Dalia]

Thanks for ur reply. I am using version 4 - Actinic Business.

I don't have the 'Discounts & Surcharges' option under the View menu item. I only have Business Settings option that gives pricing selections.

However, I have just realised that there is a Price tab in the individual product details components, I think this could be a work around for the discount.

Is this similar to creating a product group as u suggested?

[cdicken]

Hi Dalia

v4 has got very limited discounting features. The features that Bill mention are available in v7, but not v4.

In v4 you can assign a discount to a particular group of customers (View | Price Schedules) but not to a group of products, and certainly not time-limited.

[wjcampbe]

My apologies for the incorrect answer - the v4 heading is not too apparent when you look at 'new posts' in the forum. I must learn to look first.

[Dalia]

Thanks for your help guys. I must admit, I've only just discovered the Actinic community and it's been a great avenue for me since I was assigned the role to update the ecommerce website for the company I work for. I'll be sure to have a look at the Price Schedule option that you mentioned Chris.
Regards,

Dalia.

[Jan]

The simplest way would be to list the product at the lower price until X date and then increase the price - unless you want this to be limited to certain people only.

Regards,

[Dalia]

Hi Jan,
Thanks for ur suggestion, this actually does sound easier for me to do, as the reduced price is available to all customers only for a limited time.
Cheers,
Dalia.