Customize and enrich your promotion strategy with Magento Checkout Promo extension v1.2.0.

To be a successful retailer. It’s simple.

You are free to easily push up your up-sells and cross-sells. The Magento Checkout Promo module offers a number of motivation options:

• Placing configurable blocks both on checkout and shopping cart pages
• Targeting your promotional messages basing on customers’ groups or websites
• Differentiate all your promos by creating various rules, thus making them appealing to all customers

In the new version of Checkout Promo we have fixed the following bugs:

* admin.xml file added
* Rules based on payment method don’t work
* Some other minor bugs

Find more information on the extension page.

We continue releasing extensions compatible with the Market Segmentation Suite module and now it is Checkout Promo’s turn to become extra-customizable.

With the Market Segmentation Suite support of the Checkout Promo extension you can organize target promotions for concrete buyers, regular customers and separate customer groups, consumers who have already bought some products, or set up any other conditions unavailable in Checkout Promo before.

In the new version of the Checkout Promo module you can define the Market Segmentation Suite (MSS) rules as additional conditions for promo-blocks displaying. Moreover, when creating Promo rule you can determine MSS conditions only and the banner will be displayed to:

• “Retailer” customer group

 



 

• customer who has already bought X products in your store

 



 

• customer who viewed a concrete product for X times

 



 

The following minor bug have been fixed in the latest version of Checkout Promo:

• Incorrect saving of Date Start and Date Expire options

You can find more information about Checkout Promo on the extension page.

Note: Market Segmentation Suite is a separate aheadWorks extension and does NOT go with the Checkout Promo package.

Checkout Promo allows to display promo blocks basing on rules given. The blocks can be shown on Shopping cart and/or Checkout pages.

Every rule has one condition or a combination of them. The rule will be applied in case when the condition is met. You can set conditions of different type, e.g. quantity of products put in the cart, certain total price of the products in the cart, product brand, size, color, etc. As far as the customer adds products meeting the flexible conditions of the rule to the cart, the rule will be applied and the promo block will be displayed on the Shopping Cart and Checkout pages.

You can set several conditions for one rule. That’s why it is very important to set logically correct conditions – otherwise the rule won’t be applied.

If all the settings and conditions are set correctly, your customer, having the products put in the cart, can see such a promo block:

The Shopping cart

Checkout page

To get such a result follow the steps described below.

At first go to Rule information tab. The interface here is similar to Magento’s native “Shopping Cart Rules” so it should be familiar to you.

1. To create new rule go to Promotions->Checkout Promo Rules.
2. Click Add New Rule button.
3. Enter the rule name (required) and its description (optional).
4. Set status to Active.
5. Select websites to apply the rule to.
6. Define customer groups which will be able to see the promo.
7. Set the time period of rule acting. If you leave the date range empty the rule will be enabled as soon as it is created.
8. In case when several rules exist, you can set rule priority.

The result of your actions should be similar to this:

The second tab is Conditions.

You are to set the conditions for rule to be applied. You can set as many conditions as you like.

In this guide we limited ourselves to 1 condition:

Actions is the last tab here. You can define the actions when the rule is met.

1. Select the existing CMS block or create a new one (see below).
2. If you have several rules you are able to stop further rules processing.
3. Define whether to display the block on the Shopping cart and Checkout progress pages or not.
4. Click Save Rule button.

If you want to create a new block and insert there some HTML and CSS elements or images, follow the standard steps of a New Block Creation.

1. To create a new block go to CMS->Static Blocks.
2. Click Add New Block button.
3. Type in the block title and its identifier.
4. Select the store if necessary.
5. Set status to Enabled.
6. Enter the block content. You can insert plain text as well as HTML and CSS elements and images.
7. Click Save Block button.

Now when you’ve carefully put the data in all necessary fields, set statuses to Enable and defined correct conditions, make the order which will meet the defined rule and go to cart to enjoy the results of the work done.

Then click Proceed to Checkout where you will also see the promo block

If the promo block is not displayed check the conditions and block/rule status.

Bug fix release:

• Bug with not working coupons is fixed

Custom checkout for Magento

This is another powerful sales motivation extension – you can entice your customers to spend more to receive this or that benefit. “Buy X to get a discount”, “Spend not less than Y to get a gift”, “Buy product N to get K for free” and many other sales formulas can be successfully implemented using this extension. You can create as many rules as you wish and satisfy requirements even of the biggest ecommerce players.

Features

• Multiple configurable blocks positioning on checkout and shopping cart pages
• Customizable rules based covering any combination of order and cart items attribute set
• Rules priority, start and expiration dates
• Websites and customer groups based rules
• Customizable blocks defined in CMS Static Blocks section
• Unlimited number of rules
• Multiple promo blocks on page
• Easy 2-minutes installation
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility

Extension page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/extensions/checkout-promo.html