In this section, we will look at two ways to apply a quantity discount to products for the wholesale customer group. We will see how to apply tiered pricing and a catalog price rule.
To create a discount for buying more than one of a product, you usually use the tiered pricing feature. For example, these settings:
Notice that the preceding tier pricing is for users who are not logged in and for users in the General customer group. In the screenshot showing the settings, for some tiers, the Customer Group is set to NOT LOGGED IN and for other it is set to General. The result is that anonymous visitors, and retail customers who have created an account and logged in, will see these tier prices.
You can see that tiered pricing can be used to change the price depending upon which customer group is viewing the product. An advantage of this method is that it gives you fine control over the pricing. A disadvantage...