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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
In preparation for the release of Spender AutoCoupon and Chooser AutoCoupon, I've written more about using coupons in Zen Cart with Big Spender, Big Chooser and the AutoCoupon mechanisms.
A number of people wanted coupon dependencies for tracking without the additional discount of a coupon. I had been suggesting the use ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
At the tail end of National Coupon Month, I am pleased to announce the limited availability of two automatic coupon generation solutions for Zen Cart: Spender AutoCoupon and Chooser AutoCoupon. Spender AutoCoupon allows coupons to be automatically generated on the basis of total purchase amount; Chooser AutoCoupon ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
My Wishpot Integration for Zen Cart is now available on the Zen Cart download site.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
A bug has been detected in all versions of my Zen Cart Big Chooser extension.
The issue was as follows:
For set_constraint() parameters with multiple required purchases, passing was based on whether the final required quantity passed. So if you used
$this->set_constraint(CAT, 3, 6, CAT, 2, 5);
and you had 5 category ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Better Together 2.0 is now available. The new features in this version are:
The addition of add_cat_to_prod linkages.
Automatic cart sort by price. This means that discounts which use add_cat_to_cat, add_prod_to_cat or add_cat_to_cat will automatically discount the least expensive item that matches the second id.
Related changes to other parts of the ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
I'm finishing up Better Together 2.0. The feature list is different from what I initially announced:
- add_cat_to_prod will be added as a supported linkage.
- category id handling will not change - it will remain as is (i.e. CAT means master category); I had considered a change here but decided against ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
If you use my Zen Cart contributions MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox or Newsletter Discounts, please upgrade; new versions have been released that use the latest API.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I have just released version 1.2.0 of both Big Chooser and Big Spender, which allow discounting by manufacturer. "MANUF" will work the same way that CAT, PROD, PRICE and MINPRICE do now. For existing Big Spender or Big Chooser customers, the upgrade price ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Talking about automatic coupon generation in Zen Cart and more.
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
I'm working on extensions to Zen Cart that will allow you to automatically create coupons based on either the cart contents or the order total. Take a look at Spender AutoCoupon and Chooser AutoCoupon (the syntax they use is derived from Big Spender and Big Chooser, which is ...
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