How to Use "Or" When Building Your Own Promotions

EPiServer Commerce has a powerful discounting engine and can be used to build all types of promotionsA way to apply various discounts to the products, order totals or shipping. A Promotion is a marketing tool used to increase sales of certain products or product lines. Various incentives such as lowered pricing and other discounts can be employed as part of a Promotion. Promotions are always tied to Campaigns. Promotions can be classified into two types: 1) either you can create a Promotion that is visible prior to checkout or 2) you can configure the Promotion to be displayed during the checkout process. The most powerful aspect of the Marketing system is the Expression Engine which allows variable conditions to be applied when creating a Promotion. These conditions vary from the number of items, the percentage discount, shipping rates and many others. without writing custom code. In most cases these discounts can be built using one of the built in "Build Your Own Discount" options.

Building the Discount

In this case we want to build a promotion that will give a $10 discountA value that will subtracted from the list price. on certain items in our catalogA catalog is a top-level container for all catalog entries such as Categories, Products and SKUs.. We want products with "Bordeaux" OR "Sauternes" in the display name to receive $10 off the item. In this case we are using a Promotion Type of "Catalog Entry:Build Your Own Discount". Constructing the purchase condition can be a confusing when using the Or operator. The first item we must add to the condition is the Or operator since And is the default. The Or will have the effect we desire if added first which is And (Or (DisplayName = Bordeaux, DisplayName = Sauternes)) which is translated by the rules engine to And (DisplayName = Bordeaux Or DisplayName = Sauternes). If the Or is not added first the results will not be as desired as the DisplayName would have to contain Bordeaux And Sauternes.

The Reward is set to $10 Off.

Seeing the Discount Applied

We have added three items to our shopping cartA collection of products selected by a website shopper, with the intention of completing a buying procedure. Also called "shopping cart" or "basket".. As you can see two of the items (containing "Bordeaux" and "Sauternes") have been given the $10 off discount and the name of the promotion is shown with the item. The third item in our cart did not meet the criteria we set so no discount was applied.

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