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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Creating quantity discounts for wholesale customers


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.

Tiered pricing

To create a discount for buying more than one of a product, you usually use the tiered pricing feature. For example, these settings:

Produce this result:

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...