Special Offers

[insightcreative]

Hi

I'm sure on older version of VM you could set a product to special offer.  It would then display the original price with a strikethru and the new price underneath.

Is this possible with VM2 cos I can't find any information about it and it seems to be a fairly basic bit of functionality for an online store.

Cheers
Andy

[jenkinhill]

For each sale product set the sale price as override and select Overwrite final.
Then the original price (Base price with tax) will have a strikethrough and the Sales price will show.
In the example below the prices selected for display in config are set to  Baseprice with Tax, but without discounts and Final salesprice only.
You can change the price names using language overrides.

http://docs.virtuemart.net/manual/17-products-menu/28-product-edit.html
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=113895.0

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[insightcreative]

Hi

Thanks for your reply but that doesn't do what I'm after.  That displays the new price and the discount underneath.  So, for a product that was £29, you get:

£25
Discount: £4.00

I want:

<strikethru>£29.00</strikethru>
Special Offer: £25.00

I think I might have found a post that addresses this although it involves a hack.

Regards
Andy

[jenkinhill]

You can do all that through template & language overrides, which is a normal part of setting up VM for each specific site. That is not "hacking" - which is not supported for VM2.

[insightcreative]

Hi

With the mood that I'm in, that just makes me want to go and live in a cave. Between paying developers for things that they just screw up, Paypal buggering me about, server crashes and everything else that whatever higher force there is in place decides to beat the crap out of me with, I am quickly losing the will to live.

I know this isn't your fault, but what your saying is that where I used to tick a box and enter a few digits, I now have to learn a whole new way of working?

Occam's Razor springs to mind!

Cheers
Andy

[jenkinhill]

Overrides were introduced into Joomla with J1.5 but was not implemented with VM1.1 as it was orginally designed for use with Joomla 1 (and the old Mambo). So it actually is nothing new, and once you get used to overrides a lot of stuff becomes much easier to do and manage. And unlike hacks, overrides do not get removed by program updates.

The majority of users seem to just use VM2 as it comes out of the box. I just like to reconfigure it to suit my template choices.