vankyy26

Hello!

I understand that, I’m suggesting a feature to improve. What I saw other competitive plugin do the following thing:
They add additional metadata item to the product when requested via the API. The metadata item is fake, this means it is not stored into the metadata db table, they just attach it on the fly using a hook in the api function. So you get a pair “blabla_discount_price” : “9.50”. This should be completely enough in order 3rd party software to integrate with your plugin and be able to use your rules engine without having to deal with the heavy lifting (calculating all the rules on their own). Currently what I have to do is extract the rules from the wp_options table and implement the rule engine in the custom software from scratch. If metadata item is present it could easily be used as flag and override the sale price of the product. For cart based discounts this will not work of course, there is no cart in the custom software either. But for product discount that’s very useful.

The reason I do not use the competitive plugin is the price, I cannot pay $70 monthly for simple category discount which we do once a month. Small stores simply cannot afford paying 5-10 pro plugins with monthly subscriptions.

If you are not interested in developing such feature I’ll understand and I’ll have to deal with my own custom implementation from scratch.

Best regards,

Vanyo