[ic] Quantity Discounts

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Russell Mann)]

> > How is this different than using the price_group field in the pricing
> > database?  I use a perl script to make new entries for this, if I have a
> > bunch of products that need to be put in the same "price_group"
> and have the
> > same quantity discount pricing structure.
>
> You don't have to have a pricing entry for every product, for one.
> And it has configurable break points. Here is some sample data:
>
> code            price_group     break           price
>                 test1           2               10
>                 test1           5               8
>                 test1           8               7
>                 test1           10              6
>
> At that point, the products:price_group field of a product just
> needs to contain 'test1'. The quantity breaks can be different
> for every price group.
>
> --
> Mike Heins
> Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/

This just basically simplifies what's already possible though right?  To
have different price breaks now I just add new columns named "q4" "q6" etc.

-RM