Promos on category, plus all subcategories -- how?

Store Builder Questions
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The site I’m building has deep category trees. For example, the parent Books category has Beading, Welding, Reference, etc.



Now suppose I want a 20% off promo for any book. It appears I have to list all of my book subcategories explicitly in the promotion.



Is there a shortcut for “category == books, or any of its subcategories”? I don’t see one, but I can hope.



A second Q. My site owner wants “offer this promo for a product except where another promo is already being offered”. The only way I see, so far, is to assign my new promo a higher priority and put a “stop” order on it. Any other way of getting this job done?



Thanks,

Jerome.

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Hello Jerome!


[quote name=‘javaguy’]The site I’m building has deep category trees. For example, the parent Books category has Beading, Welding, Reference, etc.



Now suppose I want a 20% off promo for any book. It appears I have to list all of my book subcategories explicitly in the promotion.



Is there a shortcut for “category == books, or any of its subcategories”? I don’t see one, but I can hope.

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In standard CS-Cart you need to add all the subcategories manually.

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A second Q. My site owner wants “offer this promo for a product except where another promo is already being offered”. The only way I see, so far, is to assign my new promo a higher priority and put a “stop” order on it. Any other way of getting this job done?



Thanks,

Jerome.[/QUOTE]

This is the correct way.

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what is ‘stop’ means?

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what is ‘stop’ means?

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When set and that promotion is applied, the cart will not look at any more promotions. This is usually most valuable when you’ve giving a percentage off so that you could have multiple conditions and when one is true (in prioritized order) then further promotions will not be applied.