To work correctly, the plugin requires WooCommerce coupons to be enabled. Please, make sure the option Enable coupons from WooCommerce > Settings > General is enabled.
The plugin will not work if you don’t enable the coupons.
Now you can continue with the configuration of the plugin settings.
From YITH > Dynamic Pricing > Settings, you’ll be able to manage the plugin global settings.
This section consists of 4 specific sets of options that you can configure according to your needs. Let’s analyze them in detail.
Here, you can set the following options:
In this section, you can manage the plugin custom messages shown on product pages.
You can set these messages when creating the rules (see here how to create rules).
From the section Settings > Quantity table, you can configure all options related to the quantity discount rules shown in a table on your product pages.
Also when clicking on a row, the price will dynamically change (loaded via Ajax for better performance).
In the Cart section of the plugin Settings, you will find the options to manage the global settings related to the cart.
From YITH > Dynamic Pricing > Exclusion list, you will be able to select the products, tags and categories that are excluded from the dynamic rules.
By clicking on Add exclusion, you can add an exclusion for a product, a category or a tag.
The items you have selected will appear in the Exclusion list table.
Any of the rules that you have created will NOT apply to these products, the products in these categories or the products with these tags.
For every price rule you set, you can define a priority level. 1 is the highest priority.
As rules are processed one after the other, giving them a priority order will let you choose which one will override the others if they apply to the same product.
Please, consider that priority helps you manage rules that apply to the same product and refers to all rules of the same type.
Note: there are two distinct priority lists for rules Price Rules and Cart Discounts. Even though they are listed in a unique list, they have a separate priority, because one applies to the cart, others at the product level.
First of all, the system processes Price Rules. It starts with Quantity Discount rules: if a quantity rule applies to a product, all other rules (either Quantity discount or Special offer) applying to the same product will be then ignored, even if the option Disable other rules with lower priority is enabled.
If there are, though, more than one quantity discount or special offer rules applying to different products, they will be all applied, as they do not apply to the same product and do not conflict with one another. This applies only if the option Disable other rules with lower priority is enabled.
After that, Cart discounts will be processed and will apply to the cart total. Cart discount rules can be combined and applied one after the other.
Let’s make an example to make things easier.
Our cart contains
Price rules (Quantity discount and Special offer) will be processed first, so, No. 1, 2, 3.
Rule No. 1 and 2 apply to the same product (Product A), so, only rule No. 1 is applied as it is a Quantity discount rule and is processed first, regardless of the priority.
Product A costs $5 each.
Rule No. 2 is so ignored.
Rule No. 3 is applied to Product B. So, one is at full price of $18, and the second one is at half price of $9.
Now the cart subtotal is (12 x $5) + $18 + $9 = $87
Rule No. 4 applies to the cart subtotal, so, the final price is $69.60.
Whenever a discount is applied, a coupon is created, but what does this mean exactly?
Let’s take a look at the behavior on the backend after products have been purchased and discount rules have been applied.
For the admin, it is important to know what will happen exactly with a cart rule and the coupon that is created.
We will explain this step by step, by using an example.
If there are two or more cart rules valid, the plugin always creates a unique coupon, so it merges the discount amount of the rules into a unique value.
For this reason, even if the rules have a percentage discount, the coupon will be created as a fixed price.
Now suppose we have created 2 cart rules:
Now we will add some products to the cart, so both rules are valid.
What happens on the cart page, what will the customer see?
The plugin will apply a coupon with the amount of the two rules so 10% + 5% discount.
Now, for rule 1 we want to exclude specific products from the cart.
So we will add the Exclude products condition and select Hiking shoes.
On the frontend, the customer will not see the difference, because the coupon amount is simply calculated without this product.
On the backend, however, the coupon is applied on all items because the coupon is a fixed price.
As you can see, each item will have the same discount (not in percentage), also the excluded product will be discounted.
If only one rule is valid, the plugin creates the correct coupon (in percentage for example) and if there are products in exclusion, these products will not receive the discount.
So on frontend, the coupon amount will be the 10% without the product “Hiking Shoes”
And in the order, the items will have the right discount amount.
As you can see, now the Hiking shoes item does not have the discount applied!
Now, why is this important to know?
Because, for example, when you receive a refund request, it is good to know how the discount rules have been applied, so you can make sure to refund the right amount.
You can use the following shortcode to show the price table on any product page.
[yith_ywdpd_quantity_table]
You can use it as is to dynamically show the price table of the product on which page it is pasted.
You can force showing the price table of a specific product by simply using the attribute product followed by the product ID.
[yith_ywdpd_quantity_table product="123"]
Using the [yith_ywdpd_product_note product=”123″] shortcode, allows you to show the price notes.
Using the [yith_ywdpd_cart_notice] shortcode, you can show the note for the cart rule when the subtotal condition is selected.
Note: this only works when the ‘subtotal’ condition is used.
When adding a new page, you can use the plugin block to easily show the discounted products.
Through the block, you can select only the following rules: BOGO, Special offer, Global discount, or Category discount.
After adding the block to the page, you must select the type of rule from the dropdown. If you want to show products of all the same type of rule, enable the option Show products for all rules. If, on the contrary, you want to show only products from specific rules, just search for the rule name in the related field and select it.
Example with the option enabled
Please note: It is not possible to show different rule types on the same page. If, for example, you want to show Special offer and BOGO rule products, you will need to create two different pages.
Here, you can set the number of columns and rows to show the products.
Choose the content to show. The available options are:
