eCart Discount

Is there a way to apply a discount automatically based on the number of an individual's total number of orders? For example on any orders above the 5th order, the customer would see an automatic overall discount. So it would be an incentive to return to shop again. Thank you.

you would need to forced the users to login.

and when placing and order store the users ID in the orders table.

See the Tutorials for adding user registration to the checkout process and for creating an order history for details.

after the user is logged in, create a record to look up the number of orders placed, much like the order history recordset. you can use that recordset to trigger the discount if it returns more than 5 rows.

Thank you Jason,

I have had the forced log in and customer order history and customer order details finished for quite some time. My questions should been how do I create a record to look up the number of orders placed, and what triggers do I use to create the discount for returning more than 5 rows - do I somehow use the totalRows_WADAorders? I realize I should understand how to do this, but I am not able to understand the step by step of it. Thank you much for your help.

the recordset should lookup the orders table, and filter the orderUserID usingthe session variable of the logged in user.

the recordset will have a variable named $totalRows_<recordsetName> where <recordsetName> is the name of the recordset.

use the set session value behavior to store the $totalRows_<recordsetName> variable.

in the discount, use the Based on session variable value trigger to trigger the discount if the session is greater than 5.

Thank you.

wel the customer would need to visit the order history page to trigger setting the session, then, yes, the discount could be created as detailed previously.

Please see private. :-)

you could add the recordset and the Set Session Value behavior to the cart page, if you need help setting this up, we could help through a premiere support appointment:
http://www.webassist.com/premier_request.php

Thank you again!

you're welcome.