Spend X get X FOC

[lewis_john]

Hi,
I am trying to run a promotion on my web store that gives customers 100% discount on a specific product if the total amount in the shopping cart is  X.

I cant quite get my head around the selection of rules i need to set to enable customers to apply the promotion.

So far all i have managed to set is 'Subtotal Equals or greater than'

Any assistance would be great.

[Robert Rand · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you're headed down the right path with a shopping cart price rule. There is a precursor to setting this up properly though...

1) ***First, from the main menu in the admin, head to Catalog --> attributes --> manage attributes. Select the SKU attribute in order to edit it. Adjust the field called "Use for Promo Rule Conditions" to YES. Then Save.

Then, you can proceed to create the shopping cart price rule. 

2) It sounds like you had the Conditions right: 

Conditions: If ALL  of these conditions are TRUE :

Subtotal  equals or greater than  100.00

(ie. $100, or whatever you'd like this amount to be)

3a) Then you'll need the right Actions:

Apply: Percent of Product Discount

Discount Amount: 100  (ie. 100%)

Max Qty Discount is Applied to: 1 (ie. They get one free item and no more)

3b) Apply the rule only to cart items matching the following conditions:

If ALL  of these conditions are TRUE :

SKU  is [Insert SKU that you want to discount to 100%]

I always recommend testing to make sure that the discount works as intended, but this should do the trick for you.

[lewis_john]

Hi Robert,
thank you for your help.

I have applied all the actions and rules but found that when testing this out the shopping cart does not remove the TAX/VAT for the free item?

I have tried different combinations but cant get this to work so the item is 100% free.

Any ideas how i can solve this?

[Robert Rand]

Navigate to System --> Configuration --> Sales --> Tax --> Calculation Settings

There's a setting for "Apply Customer Tax" which you can set to: (After Discount)

There are also settings for "Apply Discount on Prices"  (Excluding Tax?)

and "Apply Tax on" (Custom Price if Available)

Hopefully, these settings will help you to get the discount working as desired.

[lewis_john]

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@Robert Rand wrote:

Navigate to System --> Configuration --> Sales --> Tax --> Calculation Settings

There's a setting for "Apply Customer Tax" which you can set to: (After Discount)

There are also settings for "Apply Discount on Prices"  (Excluding Tax?)

and "Apply Tax on" (Custom Price if Available)

Hopefully, these settings will help you to get the discount working as desired.

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Thanks a lot Robert!

[Robert Rand]

My pleasure!