1.0 What is WooCommerce?
The WooCommerce is the platform for developing e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is an easier method for us to manage and creating our e-commerce. By using WooCommerce, the features of secure payment gateway, integrated shipping, inventory management tax calculation will be provided.
It is user-friendly for all of us to use this platform. Besides, there is additional plugin that can apply in WooCommerce which is discount features – Discount Rules for WooCommerce. Discount features is important for online business which able to apply discount for specific products, rules or so on.
2.0 What is the plugin of discount rules for WooCommerce?
The plugin Discount Rules for WooCommerce was created by Flycart as one of the additional discount functions for e-commerce platforms that are able to attract customers to purchase products with various discounts.
By applying the Discount Rules for WooCommerce plugin, it can assist merchants in establishing any kind of discount for their products during any promotion date, including tiered discounts, product-based discounts, advanced discounts, percentage discounts, and bulk discounts.
For instance, quantity range based tiered pricing percentage discount, cart based percentage discount, number of line items(count) based discount, and so on.
2.1 How to install a plugin for Discount Rules for WooCommerce?
The discount plugin “Discount Rules for WooCommerce”, enable users to build WooCommerce quantity discounts as it guides you in developing numerous discounting techniques for your WooCommerce business.
Below are the steps for installing the “Discount Rules for WooCommerce” plugin .
Step 1: Login into WordPress Dashboard and go to the Plugin section on the menu bar on left.
Step 2: Click the button “Add New” to search for the plugins.
Step 3: Search for the name of “Discount Rules for WooCommerce” in the search bar.
Step 4: The plugin will be displayed after searching as in the figure below. Remember, the plugin was developed by Flycart.
Step 5: Click the button “Install Now” to install the plugin and activate it. The installation process will take some seconds . ( If installed, make sure plugin is the latest version, the figure showed below is not latest version)
Step 6: It is completed after the installation process is done and activated.
3.0 Discount type and features 3.1 Quantity range based tiered pricing percentage discount
The quantity range based tiered pricing percentage discounts allow the merchants to set various rules for the discounts. This is a popular strategy of discount rules that relies on the quantity purchased in WooCommerce.
For instance, if the quantity range in a shopping cart is 3 to 5, you will receive a 15% discount off the subtotal amount. The quantity range of products in the shopping cart is 6 to 8, and all will receive 20% discounts.
How to set the rules for the Quantity Range Based Tiered Pricing Percentage discount?
Step 1: Click WooCommerce plugin and click Woo Discount Rules on the left hand side menu.
Step 2: Enter the rules page for Discount Rules. The list of discount rules will be displayed if they have been added before, else click “Add New Rule” to add new discount rules.
Step 3: After entering the discount rule page, fill in the discount rule’s name and select a type of discount, which is “Bulk Discount.”
Step 4: In the filter section, choose “All Products” because all products are valid for this type of discount.
Step 5: Besides, in the discount section, the count by choosing the “Filters Set Above” option to count the quantity of products cumulatively.
Step 6: Determine the range of quantity products in cart at the minimum and maximum quantity selection.
Step 7: For the selection of discount types, select the option of “Percentage Discount” to fill in the range of quantity products for this discount tier. (Follow the same steps to add the second discount tie).
Step 8: Select discount value.
Step 9: Click “Add Save and Close” at above to add the discount type in WooCommerce.
Sample Output :
If the quantity of the products in cart is in between 3 to 7, each of the products will receive a 20 % discount.
3.2 Cart Based Percentage Discount
Another discount type is cart based percentage discount, which means if the shopping cart subtotal is RM 500 and above, you can receive a 20% offer. This is a strategy to attract customers to purchase more products from the e-commerce platform in order to receive more discounts.
How to set the rules for the Cart Based Percentage Discount?
Step 1: Click WooCommerce plugin and click Woo Discount Rules on the left hand side menu.
Step 2: Enter the rules page for Discount Rules. The list of discount rules will be displayed if they have been added before, else click “Add New Rule” to add new discount rules.
Step 3: After entering the discount rule page, fill in the discount rule’s name and select a type of discount, which is “Cart Adjustment .”
Step 4: In the filter section, choose “All Products” because all products are valid for this type of discount.
Step 5: In the discount section, the discount type is selected as “Percentage Discount”, and the value is the percentage. For example, filling in 30 into the blank space of value, then the value will be a 30 percent discount.
Step 6: In the rules section, conditions relationship, select the option of “Match All” and click button “Add Condition” for adding the rule.
Step 7: The conditions type select “Subtotal” for configuration. In addition, the subtotal should be “Greater than or Equal” and the subtotal amount will be based on the merchant set.
(The rule limits is optional for merchant to set)
Step 8: Click “Add Save and Close” at above to add the discount type in WooCommerce.
Sample Output:
For this sample output, the shopping cart only have 3 quantity of products and subtotal is RM 647. The discount will be apply automatically if discount rules is meet and it will be shown. The Total price is RM 479.90 had included delivery fee and deducted 30%.
3.3 Number of lines items (count) based discount
The third type of discount will be the number of line items based on the discount. To apply this kind of discount, it must be based on the quantity of different types of products in the cart. In other words, each individual product will be added individually to the new line as a single product in the cart. Each of the products will be determined as a separate product by WooCommerce. For example, if there are four different products in the cart, the customer will receive a 20% discount.
How to set the rules for the Number of lines items (count) based discount
Step 1: Click WooCommerce plugin and click Woo Discount Rules on the left hand side menu.
Step 2: Enter the rules page for Discount Rules. The list of discount rules will be displayed if they have been added before, else click “Add New Rule” to add new discount rules.
Step 3: After entering the discount rule page, fill in the discount rule’s name and select a type of discount, which is “Cart Adjustment .”
Step 4: In the filter section, choose “All Products” because all products are valid for this type of discount.
Step 5: In the discount section, the discount type is selected as “Percentage Discount”, and the value is the percentage. For example, filling in 30 into the blank space of value, then the value will be a 30 percent discount.
Step 6: In the rules section, conditions relationship, select the option of “Match All” and the condition type set as “Line Item Count” for counting condition in cart.
Step 7: In the same section, the line item count should be “Greater than or equal (>=)” and the line item count set as 3. The line item count is based on the merchant’s setting the conditions for this discount. Next, how to calculate the item count option, choose “Count all items in cart”.
Step 8: Click “Add Save and Close” at above to add the discount type in WooCommerce.
Sample Output:
For this sample output, the shopping cart only have 3 different quantity of products and subtotal is RM 487. The discount will be apply automatically if discount rules is meet and it will be shown. The Total price is RM 367.90 had included delivery fee and deducted 30%.
3.4 Additional discount type and features:
1. Exclude selected products from discount rules
2. Date based discount (validity)
3. Show discount table on product pages
Other additional discount type please refer to:
https://www.flycart.org/products/wordpress/woocommerce-discount-rules