As part of the process of defining the properties in a new promotion, you create a discount rule, which specifies the circumstances under which a promotion applies.
You begin to build a discount rule by selecting a promotion and clicking the Conditions tab. Beneath the Grant the discount under the following conditions label is a text box that you use to build discount rules. By default, the condition is “Always.” If you leave this rule as it is, the system applies the discount defined by the Discount type and Discount price properties to all items in the product catalog.
To limit the scope of the promotion, you define a particular situation in which the promotion is offered. Click “Always” to display a dropdown list with options “Always,” “When,” and “For.” Selecting “When” or “For” displays a series of conditions that appear as a sentence. The items you see in the rule are the first item in a dropdown list from which you can select a different item. Sometimes an item will be an empty space that you fill in by selecting a repository item or entering text.
Rules can be as simple as “When customer’s express checkout is true” or as complicated as “For next 3 products in the Men’s Jerseys category or (Women’s Active Wear and Women’s accessories).” Note that discount rules can incorporate complex and/or statements that designate an order of operations using parentheses. The rule wizard will sometimes include parentheses automatically to organize items into phrases.
At the end of most rules, you’ll see a diamond or parenthesis. If you want to add a new phrase to a rule, click the last element and select the appropriate conjunction: “and” or “or.”
