Volume (Quantity) Discounts on Products

[ILE]

My company sells software licenses. Customers get a discount by purchasing larger numbers of licenses. This discount is based on bands. For example if you purchase 20 licenses or less, you get 5% off. If you purchase 30 licenses or less, you get 7% off. (and so on...)

I have come up with several poor ways of implementing this type of Volume Discount. For example, I created a product called "volume discount" and allow the user to input the amount of the discount when generating the quote. This is error prone. A far better solution would be to define the discount bands in the product catalog. Sugar doesn't have this functionality. I would have to create it.

Surely I am not alone in wanting Volume discounts. Anyone out there had this problem? How did you resolve it?

[SamuelAugy]

If you know the max number of discount (5, 7, 10, 15, 20% --> need 5 discount) , you con add nx2 fields (in the previous case : 10 fields) : 1 for the volume, 1 for the discount in the product catalog.

[ILE]

Thank you for the reply.

This did occur to me and perhaps I should have said so in the description of the problem above. The problem is as you have suspected. We currently have 5 products that the discount should be applied to and 10 bands (or percentages) that need to be applied to each. That's 50 products that the user must sift through when creating a quote.

There has to be a better way!!

Again, thank you for the reply.

Any more ideas?

[SamuelAugy]

You have to write what discout to apply for each product or to add some "fake" products that allow you to apply discount (ie discount_10 to apply a discount of 10%).

After that you can edit the modules\Quotes\quotes.js file to put your rules in all calculate functions.