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3 for 2

A 3-for-2 promotion in Norce Commerce lets customers buy three products and get one of them for free. Stores often use 3 for 2 to sell more products from one category or brand.

Before you create a 3-for-2 promotion in Norce Commerce​

Before you create a 3-for-2 promotion, ensure the following:

  • The products in the offer share something Norce Commerce can filter on: a category, a manufacturer, a product flag, a price list or a product type.
  • The products can be discounted. The effect in these steps is set to discountable, so it skips products with discounting turned off.

Create a 3-for-2 promotion in Norce Commerce​

To create a 3-for-2 promotion on the products in the category T-shirts:

  1. Go to Promotions and click New.
  2. Enter a name for the promotion, for example "3 for 2 T-shirts".
  3. Click Add requirement and select Product category.
  4. Select the category T-shirts and set the requirement to and has a total quantity in basket at least 3.
  5. Click Add effect and select Product category.
  6. Set the effect to Update 1 of the cheapest discountable products in basket in category T-shirts with price minus 100 %.
  7. Select Stackable if the offer should repeat: with Stackable, a customer who buys 6 T-shirts gets 2 for free. Without Stackable, the customer gets 1 for free however many they buy.
  8. Set Status to Active and save the promotion.

Use the same category, flag or other filter in the requirement and in the effect. If the requirement and the effect use different filters, Norce Commerce can give away a product that is not part of the offer.

To give away the most expensive product instead, select most expensive in step 6.

Example: 3 for 2 on T-shirts in Norce Commerce​

A customer adds three T-shirts for 200 kr, 200 kr and 150 kr to the basket. The 3-for-2 promotion makes the cheapest T-shirt free, so the customer pays 400 kr instead of 550 kr.

Keep a 3-for-2 promotion from combining with other Norce Commerce promotions​

By default, a 3-for-2 promotion is Not Exclusive, so it is combined with other promotions the basket qualifies for. To stop that, set the 3-for-2 promotion's Exclusivity to Exclusive on the Settings tab. Norce Commerce then compares the price with the 3-for-2 promotion alone against the price with the other promotions, and gives the customer the lower price.

Example: a store also runs a Spring sale with 15% off the whole basket, set to Not Exclusive. A customer buys three T-shirts for 200 kr each, 600 kr in total.

  • With the 3-for-2 promotion: 400 kr.
  • With the Spring sale: 600 kr minus 15% = 510 kr.

The customer pays 400 kr and gets only the 3-for-2 promotion. If the 3-for-2 promotion were Not Exclusive, the customer would get both discounts.

See Exclusive promotions for how the comparison works and the limits on exclusive promotions.