The Cart Blog » That Software Guy http://thecartblog.com A blog about shopping carts and e-commerce Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Discount Preview, Group Pricing and Zen Cart 1.3.8 http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/15/discount-preview-group-pricing-and-zen-cart-138/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/15/discount-preview-group-pricing-and-zen-cart-138/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 06:33:26 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/15/discount-preview-group-pricing-and-zen-cart-138/ If you’re running my Zen Cart Discount Preview extension and displaying Group Discounts in the cart, when you upgrade to Zen Cart 1.3.8, please be sure to apply the patch described in the help.  It is required because of an internal change made to Zen Cart in the 1.3.8 release.

… and if you’re not running Discount Preview, you should be!  It’s a great mod, and the proceeds from it help fund the free software I create for Zen Cart, like Quantity Discounts and Better Together.  Thank you!

]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/15/discount-preview-group-pricing-and-zen-cart-138/feed/ Zencart Quantity Discounts by Dollars Spent http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/14/zencart-quantity-discounts-by-dollars-spent/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/14/zencart-quantity-discounts-by-dollars-spent/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 10:41:16 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/14/zencart-quantity-discounts-by-dollars-spent/ I have released the changes required to make the Zen Cart Quantity Discounts Contribution perform discounting on the basis of dollars spent, rather than units purchased as is typically done. There is no longer any need to use the Zen Cart Price Sensitive Discount; using Quantity Discounts has the following advantages:

  • Extensive support for automatically created marketing text
  • Automatically created Zen Cart Promotional Page for your discounts
  • Support for including/excluding products/categories from the spend computation
  • Support for unlimited numbers of spend levels
  • It works with Discount Preview
  • It was written by me … so of course it’s insanely great. Download it.
]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/05/14/zencart-quantity-discounts-by-dollars-spent/feed/ Dymo printing Zen Cart “ship to” labels in Firefox http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/12/dymo-printing-zen-cart-ship-to-labels-in-firefox/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/12/dymo-printing-zen-cart-ship-to-labels-in-firefox/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:17:10 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/12/dymo-printing-zen-cart-ship-to-labels-in-firefox/ When I wrote the Dymo Label Printing for Zen Cart contribution I said I’d add support for Firefox when time allowed.  Well, I finally got to it last week.  If you’re a Dymo Labelwriter owner, check it out.  And if you aren’t, buy one!  It’s not for nothing that the saying “Dymo saves you time-o” has been passed from generation to generation.

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]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/05/april-08-newsletter-has-been-published/feed/ Newsletter Discount for Zen Cart http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/03/newsletter-discount-for-zen-cart/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/03/newsletter-discount-for-zen-cart/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:18:25 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/03/newsletter-discount-for-zen-cart/ I’ve added a discounting module to Zen Cart which allows you to offer a discount to newsletter subscribers, whether you use MailChimp or the native Zen Cart newsletter system. It’s called Newsletter Discount.

]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/03/newsletter-discount-for-zen-cart/feed/ Setting begin and end dates for your discounts http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/02/setting-begin-and-end-dates-for-your-discounts/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/02/setting-begin-and-end-dates-for-your-discounts/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:14:34 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/02/setting-begin-and-end-dates-for-your-discounts/ A set of instructions has been written up to describe how to date-constrain your Zen Cart discounts when using Better Together, Combination Discounts, Big Spender or Big Chooser. Using just a small amount of PHP code, you can start and/or stop your discount offers at dates of your choosing. See Timing Discounts for details.

]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/02/setting-begin-and-end-dates-for-your-discounts/feed/ Using Twitter with SMS on Sale http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/01/using-twitter-with-sms-on-sale/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/01/using-twitter-with-sms-on-sale/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:03 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/01/using-twitter-with-sms-on-sale/ TwitterAlthough North American mobile plans generally come with an email to SMS gateway, mobile operators in many other countries do not offer this service as an integrated part of their offering, which makes it difficult to use my SMS on Sale contribution to Zen Cart. One solution is to use Twitter to generate the SMS message. Instructions on integrating the requisite Twitter API call into SMS on Sale are provided in the SMS on Sale help page.

]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/04/01/using-twitter-with-sms-on-sale/feed/ Dymo Label Printer for Zen Cart http://thecartblog.com/2008/03/09/dymo-label-printer-for-zen-cart/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/03/09/dymo-label-printer-for-zen-cart/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:09:51 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/03/09/dymo-label-printer-for-zen-cart/ It’s no secret that I’m crazy about my Dymo. I finally figured out how to get other apps - namely a browser running Zen Cart - to talk to it. It’s Win/IE only at this point but I’ll add browsers and platforms as I figure them out. Check out Dymo Labels for Zen Cart.

]]> http://thecartblog.com/2008/03/09/dymo-label-printer-for-zen-cart/feed/ Big Upsell for Big Spender and Big Chooser http://thecartblog.com/2008/02/16/big-upsell-for-big-spender-and-big-chooser/ http://thecartblog.com/2008/02/16/big-upsell-for-big-spender-and-big-chooser/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:47:15 +0000 thatsoftwareguy http://thecartblog.com/2008/02/16/big-upsell-for-big-spender-and-big-chooser/ Since the release of Big Spender, people have been asking for Checkout Candy functionality (display the discounts on the shopping cart page and the first page of checkout to tempt shoppers with upselling offers). Big Chooser users wanted the same thing. The wait is over. Check out Big Upsell.

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