The Promotions Engine is a powerful way to support sales order incentives, which are incentives that are processed at the point an order is posted. Promotions allow the user to create and execute sales order incentives for the shopping cart via configuration.
Promotions can be used for AutoShip, during rep Enrollment, in the Shopping Cart, and in Freedom with the creation of an order. During Enrollment and in the Shopping Cart, promotions will have the option to be applied to the order if it meets all of the propmotion conditions. The same applies for orders created in Freedom backoffice, but the promotions need to be applied manually via the administration tab when viewing the order before applying a payment.
See examples of promotions here.
The Promotions Engine consists of the following components:
To build a promotion, navigate to Departments > Administration > Bonus > Promotions > Promotions
To create an action, navigate to Departments > Administration > Bonus > Promotion > Promotion Actions > New
To create a condition, navigate to Departments > Administration > Bonus > Promotions > Promotion Conditions > New
To create a Promotion Collection, navigate to Departments > Administration > Bonus > Promotions > Promotion Collections
Standard Promo: Standard Promotions are the most common type of promotion and they are considered the backbone for shopping cart, enrollment, or backoffice order promotions.
Post Promo: Post Promotions are evaluated after the Standard Promos, but they are silently awarded.
AutoShip Promo: Autoship promotions are a specilized type of promotions designed to work with the larger batch order creation process used by autoship. While there are some promotions actions specifically built for Autoship Promotions, a number of other promotion actions can be used with Autoship Promos as well. The largest difference in Autoship Promotions is the lack of cumulative and suggest options as well as being limited to Promotions Conditions specifically designed for AutoShip Promos.
Cart Browsing Promo: A promotion that displays a message in the shopping cart and bag summary page. The message can contain a multitude of customizable countdowns and progress statements.
It is important to keep in mind that Cart Browsing promos DO NOT ACTUALLY AWARD ANYTHING. To award the Promotion that the message advertises, you have to create a separate Standard Promotion.
For additional information about promotions, see the following: