How can I offer a product? [#261144]

Hi!
Read a couple of old posts about this but none of them has a solution.

I was hoping there was a way to offer products to costumers without charging them (kind of defeats the concept of offering =)) and without messing up the stats like Monthly and Yearly sales.

Right now, if I add a product to an order, it will add the product price to the total and if I create a new transaction, it will charge the costumer as well.

Is there anything I'm missing or there isn't really a way to offer products?

Thanks!
Ricardo

Comments

Comment #1

davea commented 23 May 2008 at 01:48

Ricardo,

I am not really sure what you are trying to accomplish. If you want to offer products FOR SALE, then the ecommerce module is one way to get there. Can you explain your need please?

DaveA

Comment #2

rbl commented 23 May 2008 at 23:03

Hi DaveA!
Sorry for that, I meant offer for free.

Imagine someone buys you a large quantity of products or it's just a good (returning) costumer and you want to offer something as a gift.

Ricardo

Comment #3

davea commented 24 May 2008 at 04:44

Ricardo,

You could use the ec_coupon module. It is pretty simple. I would test it first to see that it meets your needs. The coupon module allows you to give a code to a particular customer or customers and then they can apply that to a purchase.

Thanks,
DaveA

Comment #4

rbl commented 24 May 2008 at 21:08

Coupons don't solve the problem because you can't control when they're used and on what. Besides, they can't be redeemed by the admin at the back end.

I would like to have a way, as a store admin, to add any existing product at zero cost on an existing order before it's shipped.

Ricardo