Magento 2 Advanced Promotions Extension

14 promotion types Magento's cart price rules don't have

Magento's native cart price rules give a percent or fixed discount and a basic "buy X get Y" that only works within the same product. Store promotions usually need more: a free case with a phone, the cheapest item in the cart free, every second item at half price.

Extended Shopping Cart Rules adds these as new actions to the same cart price rules, so you build promotions in the screen you already know:

• Buy product X, get a different product Y free, discounted or for a fixed price
• Discount the cheapest or the most expensive item, or every N-th item
• Give $Y off for every $X spent
• Target customers by order history and any customer attribute
• Exclude items that already have a special price or another discount
• Show cart banners that tell shoppers how to unlock a discount

Rules work with Luma and Hyvä, including Hyvä Checkout, and with headless storefronts that create carts through GraphQL.

Each line is one rule from the extension:

• Buy one, get one free (the second product can be a different one)
• Buy 3, get the cheapest one free
• Every 2nd item 50% off
• Buy 3, get the cheapest one for $5
• $10 off for every $100 spent
• Buy a phone, get a case 30% off or for $5
• All T-shirts in the cart for $10 each
• $15 off the most expensive item
• Discount everything except the most expensive item

Any rule can also give free shipping or apply its discount to the shipping amount.

See how each action calculates the discount in the user manual.

Buy one get one free, with a different product

A customer buys product X and gets product Y free, with a fixed or percent discount, or for a fixed price. Unlike Magento's native rule, Y can be a different product: you define X with the rule conditions and Y with the action conditions, by category, SKU, price or any other product attribute.

For example, offer a case 30% off with every phone, or give the case for free (a 100% discount).

The discount applies when both products are in the cart: the customer adds Y. A cart banner can prompt them to do it. Use the rule to move high-margin or slow-selling products along with your bestsellers.

Every N-th item discounted

The "by step" rules discount the cheapest item for every N items in the cart. Set the step to 3 and the discount to 100%, and you get "buy 2, get 1 free": in every 3 items the cheapest one is free, so a customer with 6 items gets the 2 cheapest ones free. Set the step to 2 and 50% for "every 2nd item half price", or use a fixed price for "buy 3, get the cheapest one for $5". A maximum quantity limits how many items get the discount.

$Y off for every $X spent

The discount grows with the cart: give $10 off for every $100, so a $250 cart gets $20 off. Add conditions such as a product category or a minimum cart total.

Complex promotions are easy to get wrong: a rule that never fires, or one that stacks with another rule and gives a double discount. The extension shows both before customers do.

• Sample cart preview. The rule form shows example carts for the rule you are editing, which items get the discount and how much. Change the discount or the step, and the examples update.
• Visualize Rules. One tree shows every cart price rule with its priority, "Discard subsequent rules" setting, active dates, coupon, customer groups, websites, conditions and discount type. You see which rule runs first and which ones stop the rest.

The extension adds conditions that native cart price rules don't have:

• Order history: total number of orders and total sales amount of a logged-in customer. Give a coupon for the first order, or a better discount to customers who have spent over $1,000.
• Customer attributes: any customer attribute, including your custom ones.
• Has Special Price: exclude products that already sell below their regular price.
• Is Discounted: exclude items already discounted by another cart rule.

The last two keep a promotion from giving a second discount on items that are already on sale.

Set your own success and error message for each coupon rule, shown when a customer applies its coupon on the cart page. The message can include the coupon code.

Say a coupon only works for NIKE products priced at $100 and up. Instead of Magento's generic error, the customer sees: "This coupon is only valid for NIKE products priced at $100 or more". They know right away why the coupon didn't apply and what to change.

Customers can't use a discount they don't know about. The extension comes with promo banners that explain the offer and what to do to get it.

Show a banner as text or an image, in a pop-up, lightbox, slider or rotator, on the cart, product, category or any other page. Choose when it appears by cart contents and subtotal, product, category, customer group and schedule.

For example, show "Add one more item to the cart and get an additional 5% discount" when the customer has two products in the cart, "Get $10 off for every $100 spent" while the cart total is below $100, or "Spend $23 more for free shipping" with the amount calculated for each cart. Impressions and clicks are counted for every banner.

For a discount on a set of products bought together, see Product Kits.