Get familiar with different Discount Types

OrderCentral supports different type of discounts and various ways to who or what these discounts should be applied.

Discount types

Depending on the use case a different kind of discount calculation can be applied. It can be a simple discount percentage or depending based on the amount of a certain product being ordered at the same time.

Fixed percentage discount

Will always apply a configured percentage to the price.

Example:

Product X has a fixed percentage discount configured of 10%.

Volume discounts

Offer a reduced price per unit of a product or service when a customer purchases a larger quantity.

Please go to the related tab of Webshop Partner Discount object and add Webshop Partner Discount Scales for the Volume discounts.

Example:

Product X has a volume discount configured with three different discount scales.

1. Quantity <10 no discount should be applied

2. From quantity 10 tot <20 a discount of 10% should be applied

3. Quantity > 20 a discount of 15% should be applied

Combined discounts

This can be an account specific discount, but also general discount on a specific product, product family, product group or product line. you have 2 discounts of 10% on the same product that costs a €100,-.

Example:

Stacked discounts

Multiple discounts are applied one after the other. Each discount is calculated based on the reduced price from the previous discount.

Example: