Promoting Your Products Through Special Pricing

Overview

The Advanced Pricing tool allows a Store Administrator to set up discounts for certain products in your Kano Store. You can offer discounts by group or company, by date, or by amount of products purchased.

Setting Up Basic Advanced Pricing

1. On the Kano Store admin panel, click Catalog > Products to go to the Products page. 
2. Find your desired product on the grid, and click Edit under the Action column. 
3. Scroll down to the Price field, and click Advanced Pricing.

4. Create the pricing guidelines for your product:

   Special Price:	The discounted price offered during a specific time range.
   Special Price From... To...:	The specific time range when your product is being sold at the discounted price.
   Customer Group Price:	Creates the guidelines for offering the discounted price to specific customer groups or specific purchase quantities. To offer this price to all customers, you can ignore this section.

5. Once you are complete, click Done. Your discount pricing will then be visible from the Kano Store website. 

Special Price settings and display in the Store:

Customer Group and Tier Pricing

Customer Group and Tier pricing offers ways to discount a product based on belonging to a specific group or by purchasing a specific quantity from a product listing on your Kano Store website. The discount can be applied to a specific store view, or a specific customer group. This option can help encourage bulk purchases by company representatives, or provide discounts for partnerships. 

1. On your Product settings page, click Advanced Pricing. 

2. In the Customer Group Price section, click Add.  

   Website:	You can choose which website features the discount pricing. This option appears only if your store has multiple websites.
   Sample Customer Groups:	You can choose which customer group or company qualifies to receive the discount pricing.
   Quantity (Required):	You can specific the quantity required to receive discount pricing, for example, you must purchase 3 items to get a discount.
   Price:	Provides a fixed or discount price for members of a specified customer group.
   Fixed:	The discount price is entered as a fixed decimal value. For example, entering '9.99' sets the price to $9.99
   Discount:	The discount price is entered as a percentage of the base product price. For example, entering '10' generates a 10% discount.
   Add:	You can create an additional row for a new rule.
   Delete icon:	You can delete a price rule.

3. To generate a tier pricing rule, you must create at least two rules based on two different quantities. In this example, discounts will be offered for customer who purchase five or more textbooks, and customers who purchase ten or more textbooks.

4. Types of discounts:

   Fixed Discounts	Set Price to Fixed. In the next field, enter the discount price for each unit at that tier.
   Creating Percentage Discounts	Set Price to Discount. In the next field, enter the percentage discount for each unit at that tier.

5. Once you are complete, click Done at the top-right corner of the page. 

Setting Up Group Pricing

Customer group pricing allows you to offer discount pricing to a specific customer group or company on your Kano Store website. However, this discount pricing can only be offered to those purchasing quantity of one product. 

1. On your Product settings page, click Advanced Pricing. 

2. In the Customer Group Price section, click Add.

   Website:	You can choose which website features the discount pricing. This option appears only if the installation has multiple websites.
   Sample Customer Groups:	You can choose which customer group qualifies to receive the discount pricing.
   Quantity:	Enter a quantity of 1.
   Price:	Provides a fixed or discount price for members of a specified customer group.
   Fixed:	The discount price is entered as a fixed decimal value. For example, entering '9.99' sets the price to $9.99
   Discount:	The discount price is entered as a percentage of the base product price. For example, entering '10' generates a 10% discount.
   Add:	You can create an additional row for a new rule.
   Delete icon:	You can delete a price rule.

3. Once you are complete, click Done at the top-right corner of the page.