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At “Inventory Control” I noticed a setting called “Quantity Limit Per Customer”.
I thought I could create a workaround by setting, as per my above example, the quantity limit per customer to 30 (30 units x 100 words), but it’s not working.
Then I thought that I needed to set up the total number of available copies first, so I entered a bogus inventory count. It’s still not working, and the bogus inventory shows on the product page.
If the “Inventory Control” would work, combined with the conditional Item ID => Is Equal To for the coupon code, I think that might be okay for now.
Clients would need to go back to the main menu and order the regular product if they need more of it though, which makes this not an ideal solution.
Could you please let me know how can I fix this?
I only sell one single type of product: content, in 100 words units. You can check out my setup at 101content.com.
How would I go about creating a category based conditional discount? Not sure if it would help, but it’s good to know nonetheless.
The entrance level for purchasing my products is very low, but people are still reluctant (read skimpy), so I’d like to lure them in with a lower price then apply the regular price.
How would that work within a single transaction?
Here is a practical example:
I offer a sample review for 1 cent. When I send the sample, it goes out with an email saying “…Please use the coupon code [generic] at checkout to get a 30% discount for your next order, up to 3,000 words.”
Most of them do not read the email, or do not care for the details, and order 10,000 words, then apply the 30% coupon code to the entire transaction. Some of them try to use the coupon later on, to unrelated transactions, which creates a different kind of headache since I’m not set up to memorize who does what, and I lose money eventually.
I have to get back to them and explain that the 30% discount coupon applies only to the first 3,000 words, and that they’d have to pay the regular price for what’s above 3,000 words. It’s not nice, and some of them feel cheated.
How can I solve this problem/s?
Thanks for reading, and for your help.
Never mind,I did some more digging and discovered that I can use Product Categories to achieve this task, together with this shortcode:
[wp_eStore_category_products_fancy id=1 style=1]Thank you! I guess I got lost half way.
Now I just have to figure out how to publish it using one of the fancy displays.
The shortcode [wp_eStore_fancy_display id=3 type=3 style=1] doesn’t seem to work, so I guess I have to do more reading.
Thank you for your advice; it worked.
I sell content in units of 100 words each. No matter how I describe the product (and I have a line that literally says “1 credit = $x = 100 words”), I still have a ton of people ordering first 1 unit, then whatever they actually need; shortest articles are about 300 words / 3 units.
Because PayPal fees are very high compared with these small transactions, I lose money on them, which I don’t like. It takes a long time to explain to a (new) client why I want to cancel the transactions, and have him send just one payment. It kind of makes me look like a cheapskate in front of a (new) client, but it adds up from many transactions, and the client doesn’t have this behind the wall view like I do.
Therefore, for this particular case, since the clients have to modify that default “1” to something else anyway, it’s better they are forced to do it.
I hope this makes more sense now.
