Prestashop: Specific prices priority over catalog rules - a logic approach

[freeman78ita]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Yes, on P.s. 1.7.5
When setting up a catalog rule if the product has already a specific price it gets ignored.
This maybe right if the catalog rule is lower than the actual product specific price, but it's not if the discount can be higher
**Describe the solution you'd like
We used this workaround in 1.6 and i think it made sense:
https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/438626-set-priority-on-product-discount/
Describe alternatives you've considered
Hard to say, as if there is for example a black friday, the catalog price rules are best but this way as most of the items can already have a small discount, they will be ignored.

[khouloudbelguith]

Hi @freeman78ita,

Yes, When we use specific prices, the catalog price rule is ignored( lower or higher than the specific price).
ping @marionf, @colinegin what do you think of his suggestion.

Thanks!

[PrestaShark]

Yes. Catalog price rules should be on top of the priority , then will be useful for merchants.

Case
1) Got dozens of discounted products in category (20 euro, 10%, 15%)
2) Want to make sale offer for this category by the catalog price rule like 20% off
3) Only non distounted products will be covered by the catalog price rule, and rest will have previous special prices (20 euro, 10%, 15%)
4) To make offer work i need to remove all specific prices from dozens of products...
5) After sale is over i need to add previous removed specific prices as before...

[colinegin]

@matks do you think we could add a new option in the catalog price rule page ?
The option would define if the catalog price rule has or does not have priority over specific prices that may exist for some products impacted by the catalog price rule.

Do you think it could it be done with this issue #10548 ?

[PrestaShark]

That would be great!

[khouloudbelguith]

Hi @colinegin,

Any news about the fix of this issue? because @PrestaShark said

We have now an very hot months in e-commerce world. Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas

Thanks!

[PrestaShark]

As mentioned above :

"Example
I have 500 products in catalog, 2/3 of them have set specific prices from 15 to 40% discounts.
I want to set catalog rule to cover whole site with 50% discount.
Catalog rule will work only with 1/3 of non discounted products because.

CATALOG RULES doesn't work OVER product SPECIFIC PRICE! ;(
Without this the Catalog Rules don't make any sense... "

THANKS!

[PrestaShark]

Bump

[burakgit]

so @freeman78ita ,
what happened to fix this ?

@khouloudbelguith it is very bad,
if i create a new customer there should be a option which enables, disables specific prices, if it cant, catalog prices must ovverride the specific price.

[freeman78ita]

Nothing......it's a very basic thing. Now for example under covid we would love to set up let's say a category "t-shirt" with 30% off that override specific prices and we can't set it.
I hope they will release this soon. I'm going to start playing with the code myself if i have time and contribute if i can.

[burakgit]

There is a paid module, but my country is not supporting Paypal. So i am waiting.. it is so important to the " Disable/enable specific prices for selected groups.

[freeman78ita]

which module? I think this should be not managed by a plugin but as a native feature.

[andrevich76]

hi, any news on the fixing?