Re: [WebDNA] making a gift cert. (in effect) it's own lineitem/'product' with negative price - pros/cons?

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2008

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 100710
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texte = >Thanks Donovan,Yeah I remember that we have to keep the user from getting more than one gift cert., so this 'hassle' would be a 'con'. Do you remember any other pros/cons? I mean WHY all would you want to do it that way?...as opposed to just:- allowing user to input his gift code, which on the fly checks a giftcert.db if that gift cert exists/valid, and if so:- change the price of his product's lineitem(s) (according to the % off the gift cert gives)- On [purchase] set the gift cert to 'spent' in giftcert.db?I am just thinking out loud here, but I wanted to do that to also see how the more recent versions of webcat may or may not have influenced the pros/cons for doing gift certs one way or another.-Govinda>> Hi Govinda, I guess it would depend slightly on what you are starting> with. If this is a SiteBuilder type of site, or a site that is> using the Commerce tags of WebDNA (as it appears it maybe), yes, > personally, I> would probably use the negatively priced "Gift Certificate" lineitem > method.>> You have to "watch out" that you don't give the ability of the users> to add multiple negatively priced gift certs. ;-) This is done by> reassessing the entire cart every time the cart is affected in any> way.. removelineitem, deletelineitem, setlineitem etc...>> The "blank" Gift Cert product can be added to the cart at a price of> $0.00.>> Let us know more of the details if you have further questions... There> are lots of "busy" people here that will be able to help you through> the process if needed.>> Cheers,> Donovan> Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [WebDNA] making a gift cert. (in effect) it's own lineitem/'product' with negative price - pros/cons? (Govinda 2008)
[WebDNA] making a gift cert. (in effect) it's own lineitem/'product' with negative price - pros/cons? (Govinda 2008)

>Thanks Donovan,Yeah I remember that we have to keep the user from getting more than one gift cert., so this 'hassle' would be a 'con'. Do you remember any other pros/cons? I mean WHY all would you want to do it that way?...as opposed to just:- allowing user to input his gift code, which on the fly checks a giftcert.db if that gift cert exists/valid, and if so:- change the price of his product's lineitem(s) (according to the % off the gift cert gives)- On [purchase] set the gift cert to 'spent' in giftcert.db?I am just thinking out loud here, but I wanted to do that to also see how the more recent versions of webcat may or may not have influenced the pros/cons for doing gift certs one way or another.-Govinda>> Hi Govinda, I guess it would depend slightly on what you are starting> with. If this is a SiteBuilder type of site, or a site that is> using the Commerce tags of WebDNA (as it appears it maybe), yes, > personally, I> would probably use the negatively priced "Gift Certificate" lineitem > method.>> You have to "watch out" that you don't give the ability of the users> to add multiple negatively priced gift certs. ;-) This is done by> reassessing the entire cart every time the cart is affected in any> way.. removelineitem, deletelineitem, setlineitem etc...>> The "blank" Gift Cert product can be added to the cart at a price of> $0.00.>> Let us know more of the details if you have further questions... There> are lots of "busy" people here that will be able to help you through> the process if needed.>> Cheers,> Donovan> Govinda

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Re: [WebDNA] making a gift cert. (in effect) it's own lineitem/'product' with negative price - pros/cons?

2008

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