Discount for members on select products or categories

[RIPhoto2018]

We are in need of registering for workshops with a limited number of seats, say 10. Registered dues-paying members get a $10 (or any fixed dollar amount) discount on the registration fee. I have looked for different solutions using add-ons but they do not cover all the bases I need to cover. For instance, the dynamic discounts add-on applies the discount across the board and does not allow dollar amount to be entered in the eMember discount field. Is there a way to:

1. Restrict the discount to a single product or a product category

2. Allow the paid members to log in and see the price a given amount lower than visible to the public

3. Without creating two different products because the number of seats in the workshop will be limited regardless of who registers.

Thanks.

[admin]

The preferred way to handle conditional discounts for members is to create conditional coupons. Then show it to your members using section protection. So only the members of a particular level can see those coupons.

For example: You can have a conditional coupon called DISCOUNTFORITEM1 then advertise it to the members of a particular level using the following partial protection shortcode:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88

[RIPhoto2018]

Thank you for this suggestion, it may work. But, I have a related question. How do we prevent the use of the coupon code by nonmembers? I realize we can manually check whether each registrant is a member, but it defeats the purpose of using an automated system.

[wzp]

You could have 2 versions of the same product, and use partial content protections to only display the lessor priced version to logged-in members. In that instance, being a logged-in member “becomes the coupon.”

[RIPhoto2018]

Thanks wzp, but we will have a total of 10 seats available, how can we split that into two products that may sell at different rates. The ideal solution would be a price setting for the product that will show only for logged in members. This will make the discount product specific and very simple to implement. If there are no member discounts that field will be left blank.

[wzp]

It may (no promises) be possible to have the developer code a custom “conditional coupon option” for you. Such an option would require the buyer to be logged-in, to “prove eligibility” for using the coupon. Would simply logging-in be enough for you, or do you require a particular membership level?

[RIPhoto2018]

In the case of our current needs, a simple login allowing us to show and charge a different price will be perfectly fine for a particular product or a workshop without lowering the price of everything else in the store, like membership dues themselves! If the discount can be entered as a dollar amount to a membership level that will be fine as well. I realize we can reverse engineer the discount percentage but telling the members that they will get 4.326% discount will be strange marketing. Thank you, wzp for keeping the conversation open.

[RIPhoto2018]

Although I wrote that a discount that could be entered into membership levels might be fine, I realize that it would be more convoluted than entering a member price in the product will be ideal. Please disregard that ides.

[wzp]

So, if the developer were able to provide a conditional coupon, based on whether or not an eMember was logged-in; that would do it for you?

[RIPhoto2018]

So long as the discount coupon would apply to a specific product, yes that will be a solution we can use. The discounts we offer are generally in units of dollars rather than percentages, but both options would be welcome. Thank you.

[RIPhoto2018]

Any idea whether an update will be available with this option? I believe the ideal solution is to have a special field in the product information that will allow the user to enter a member only price for each product if wanted. If there is no member only price, members will see the same price as any other visitor. I bet this will be a welcome addition for many users of this pair of plugins.

[RIPhoto2018]

I gather a new version is not in the cards. We are issuing refunds to members after they sign up for the workshop. This ticket may be closed.

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