The Cart Blog

Two fixes now available:

• Table Discounts (issue with marketing text in v 1.1)
• Gift Wrap at Checkout (incorrect price for per item wrap charges)

If you use Gift Wrap for Zen Cart, you can now have textual descriptions or images of your wrapping paper.

For instance, here is wrapping paper displayed using images:

and here is wrapping paper displayed with text descriptions:

Table Discounts for Zen Cart now has the ability to do both tiered discounts and case discounts.

• Tiered discounting discounts items with by applying specific discounts to specific counts of products within a single order. If you want one price for the first 10 items, another for the next 20 and another for the next 50, look at tiered discounts.
• Case discounting only discounts groups of items in specific numeric quantities. If you want to offer special prices for groups of 6, 12 and 24, but no special prices for other multiples, look at case discounting.

Tiered discounts were added to Table Discounts in version 1.1.  Take a look at some examples of tiered discounting and case discounting for Zen Cart in the help page.

Two fixes were posted to this module (Zen Cart 1.3.9 version only) yesterday – get the latest update from the Free Software Add Ons area.  This update affects Zen Cart 1.3.9 only; Zen Cart 1.3.8 is unchanged.

Not using this mod?  Take a look at the Gift Wrapping at Checkout for Zen Cart help page.

I wrote a mod for Zen Cart in response to this tweet by Jason Billingsley which shows the end date of a sale or special on the Zen Cart product info page.  Take a look at Sale Ending/Special Ending for Zen Cart.

Yet another tax handling option for tax included Zen Cart stores is now available for Quantity Discounts and Better Together.  Re-Calculate Tax = VAT is a setting which has been requested by shops which display prices with taxes included, such as those in the UK.

Do you like Quantity Discounts for Zen Cart but wish you had the ability to set different price breaks for different categories?  Do you wish you had the ability to offer different price breaks to different customer groups?  Or the ability to create groups of products which have their own price breaks?  Or the ability to discount by manufacturer?  Then Table Discounts for Zen Cart is something you should look at.

A lot of people like the idea of automatically adding one item to the cart when another item is purchased, so I wrote Automatic Add to Zen Cart to address this need.

Have you ever wanted to offer discounts based on how much money your customers have spent in the last few days, weeks or months?  Frequency Discounts for Zen Cart allows you to do this.