Urgent Help !! - Shopping Cart - How Do I do this

[rubberdubber]

hi
i need some help !!

We have just been awarded a council contract, where the council will subsidise one of our products.

The offer will only be open to people with a certain postcode.
they will enter their postcode onto the website and then it will show the discounted price, and they will be able to buy that product at the reduced rate.

Our website is oscommerce, which i dont think will allow the above to happen

does anyone know of a way that I can implement this into oscommerce, or does anyone know of a shopping cart that can give a discount for a postcode.
I am more than happy to use a complete new shopping cart if it makes it work

Please help
Thanks

 

[garysumpter]

Does osc have coupons? YOu could set up a coupon with the postcode as the coupon ID?

Gary

 

[computerservices]

The good thing about OSCommerce is the amount of contributions available that are usually really easy to install!

http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=coupon&category=all

Depending on your volume of orders you could do it 2 ways:

1) Put a note on the website saying "If you live in the *** *** postcode area please enter *** *** as a coupon code in the coupon code box to receive your discount" - but then you'd have to check each order you got to make sure people weren't trying it on. Not the best idea but will work if you only get a couple of orders.

2) You could pay someone to customise the contribution or write in some custom code for you which obviously would be more expensive but work much better!

(P.S There may be a mod already there that does this - search around on the OSC Site - I just haven't seen one)

Cheers

 

[rubberdubber]

thanks
i have been through millions of contributions, i guess the easiest way to make it work would be as gary said, and get a customer to enter the first 3 digits of their postcode

any other suggestions or shopping carts that this works for

 

[garysumpter]

thanks
i have been through millions of contributions, i guess the easiest way to make it work would be as gary said, and get a customer to enter the first 3 digits of their postcode

any other suggestions or shopping carts that this works for

This can be done with Virtuemart (we do it!)

Gary

 

[rubberdubber]

Virtumart
gary - is there a url i can look at it in action

pm me if you like

 

[garysumpter]

Well its simply an input box for a voucher code at the checkout stage. I will PM you a site that uses it live.

Gary

 

OSC allows discount vouchers too, as do most carts.

You'd be best off with what was said on post #3

 

[MartCactus]

The coupon idea people have suggested is a good one.

It should be possible to write some simple code to take the first part of the customers postcode, and use that as a coupon. You then setup a coupon for each postcode you want to discount.

That way the user doesn't have to enter anything in the coupon box, but they still get the discount by virtue of their postcode.

For any developer familiar with the package you are using it should be a pretty easy change to make.

 

[TotallySport]

can I ask how the customer will find out about the offer?

 

[rubberdubber]

thanks for your replies

yes the postcode - voucher is the best idea, i will look into implementing it