Product Cost Cap - is it functional? Any trick to making it work?

Bradley Bartram (1219)

Has anyone had success setting up a discount that uses Product Cost Cap?

 

I've been trying to create a discount incorporating a cost cap on an SKU but it fails to trigger when the Discount rules (Customer and Product) are met, even using a bare test discount that applies a $2 cap to all products with the most permissive settings available (apply to all products, allow more than once, active, sort order 0, max 9999, max repeats 255, max qty 9999, apply from highest or lowest price) .

 

I know the discount rules are met because I added in a $1 shipping discount that triggers perfectly under the expected conditions.

 

The brief example on the Discounts/Coupons Overview page is "Pay a maximum of $50 on Adidas sneakers when you buy 2 or more pairs." This is exactly the kind of discount I'm trying to achieve, but it just seems to never do anything for any combination of settings.

 

Anyone know if there's some nuance to how this discount functions that I'm missing?

Bradley Bartram (1219)

Bit of an update here for anyone following - I found the Add A Discount / Coupon page actually has an extra little piece of information absent from the Discounts / Coupons Overview page:

 

• Set an upper limit for the cost of a product(s) on the order. Use this with a product or category discount and the Max Qty Allowed field to make a buy X amount for $Y.

 

The Max quantity allowed seems to be overridden to control the point where the discount kicks in (X in the example) rather than any maximum quantity that's allowed to be discounted.

 

The Product Cost Cap amount is the total for this quantity, so if you want a straight per-unit price cap without needing a minimum then set it as the per unit price and Max quantity allowed should be 1.

 

The Advanced Options section on the Discounts / Coupons page directly contradicts this, so I guess I'll encourage Maropost to revise those pages.

I guess I upvote myself now? 😄