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Ability to exclude configurable options from promotion discounts.

  • frhost shared this idea 11 years ago
  • Payments/Billing
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Have had issues with promo codes also discounting cPanel or additional IP's instead of just the product we wish to discount. There seems to be no issue if it was a separate product, but configurable options always seem to get discounted too.
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    Apply discounts only to products (not add ons)
    Would be great have an option who determine if the discount must be applied to the whole order or only to the product, i.e. Dedicated server = $199.95cPanel addon = $30invoice total = $229.95invoice total with a 10% discount promo = $206.95if the discount would be applied only to the product, the invoice total:Dedicated Server = $199.95Dedicated Server with a 10% discount = $179.95cPanel addon = $30invoice total = $209.95

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In WHMCS, configurable options are part of the product price rather than a separate amount which makes this request technically more difficult. Is excluding all configurable options sufficient to address this request, or do you need the ability to choose individual configurable options for exclusion?

Thanks!
Hello, at last thanks for your reply. We have been waiting for many years for your reply on this issue. We required "exclusion" of configaration price from discounts.
Hope this will be implemented soon.
Yes, excluding all configurable options is sufficient to address this request.
Hello. We need to apply the promotions to the product original price, excluding ALL the configurable options. For example, if the customer purchases a product that costs 100 and choose configurable options that cost 20, a 10% promotion would be calculated as follows: (1 - 0.10) * 100 + 20 = 110 This would be very useful for many of us. Please implement this! Thank you.
I would say that the product option to simply exclude any configurable option from the promotion/discount is good enough. This would be especially important for billing resellers of cpanel for example - offering a discount on the base plan but not on the number of cpanel accounts they are being charged for (/account cpanel licensing costs)
This is a great idea, but I think the Admin should have the say-so-over if Configurable Options are to be discounted or not. There are times, we want to pass the discount to them, and I can see other times one would not. Please give the Admin the option, please.
This issue could be easily solved by addressing the real problem that WHMCS does not line item configurable options like every other host billing software does. By implementing line items on the invoice for configurable items you solve the following issues:
1. Being able to create coupon codes that only effect those items and or exclude
2. Being able to individual discount an item manually to provide a discount to the customer or meet a price target.
3. Being able to charge tax on a item directly as required by law in many states and countries. (i.e. TN requires tax be charge on leased software, but not other items)
4. Reporting - Being able to run reports easier on configurable items. i.e. How many raid cards do I have being billed and what is that item generating in sales.
Hi Tony,
Creating individual line items in invoices for each configurable option would be a significant change. If you believe that would be an improvement, that should be submitted as a feature request in its own right to allow others the chance to comment and vote.
Thanks
If you could create a checkbox on the edit coupon page that says: exclude configurable options from discount

that would be a huge step forward. This would solve the problem for a lot of users in this feature request. My problem definitely.

I was hoping to see this in 8.2
"Is excluding all configurable options sufficient to address this request" - yes for me!
Excluding all options would suffice for me. This itself would be a great relief for many users I suppose.
Excluding all configurable options would be sufficient from my side too.
Any movement yet?
7 years, no movement :( Why does WHMCS not implement this already?
Yes this is important to develop.
This should def be implemented by default.
with the latest implementation of cpanel tiered licensing with sub-type of each type of product license, this kind of feature really need to get realized soon. we can't make any promotion for our vps/cloudserver/dedicated server because it would discount all the optional configurable option too, we need to exclude the configurable option so that discount can be applied to base product only.
Yes, don't know why still It's pending for consideration. It should be implemented.
It is very important function , without this function the promotion feature will be useless totally
I'm still losing money because of this problem.
Hope WHMCS will include this function in v7.9.
Any update for this? We're having to switch every configurable option over to an addon now so that we can run sales and not discount every single option and it's not an easy thing to do. 58 votes is a lot more than many of the other implemented requests here.
Recently we are also facing the same issue with whmcs. And we are unable to exclude configuration from discount.
I would vote 1000 times for this if I could. Your competitors have this and we really should have the option to include / exclude configurable options when creating a promo code. It took me awhile to find this topic again and so I'd guess there aren't enough votes because this request feature of the WHMCS site is hard to navigate.
I would like to see this added too. It's very common that an install fee or other configurable option is a part of the service and shouldn't be discounted. I think on the promo code setup page, a check box could be added that says 'exclude configurable options' from discount being applied. Fingers crossed to see this sooner rather than later.
It is possible to do this with hooks, the real problem is they way the hooks display the price the end user that we have to highly edit the cart template just to get a view that makes sense when using a hook to run some promotions.
Just about to submit a request and found that this useful feature had been requested since 6 years ago. 6 YEARS.
Hi there,
With an average of about 7 votes per year, this suggestion has not yet made it on to our roadmap. Thanks for your vote, I'm sure if others share your desire for this feature that could change in future!
I think this should be a deafult option regardless of votes due to the fact every large hosting company can do this on their systems. Why shouldn't one if the most popular hosting automation platforms not.
I completely agreed!
I'm giving free domains as a promotion when signing up. But because I can't choose to exclude the addons, I have to give id protection away for free too.

It's definitely a problem and should be included regardless of the amount of upvotes here in my opinion.