Defining Exceptions to a Promotion

Procedure

Use this procedure to exclude specific items from a promotion. For example, if you want to put all of the items in the women’s accessories department on sale with a 5% discount but exclude leather gloves by ABC Inc., you can define a promotion for the accessories department and an exception for the gloves.

Note Note

Before you define an exception for a promotion, you must add the promotion.

End of the note.

To define an exception to a promotion:

Add a new promotion defining a subset of merchandise that you want to exclude from the main promotion. Do not type a value in the field corresponding to a Pricing Method.
Click Save, and then click Exit.
Open the main promotion from which you are excluding the merchandise.
On the Promotion Detail Selection Window, select promotional details from which you want to exclude the merchandise, and then click Open.
Check the check box beside Exception, and in the Exception ID field, type the ID number of the promotion that you added in step 1.
Check the check box beside Accumulate, and then click Save.
Do one of the following:
- To exclude the merchandise you defined in step 1 from another promotional detail for this promotion, use the Next and Previous buttons until the promotional details appear, and then return to step 5
- To return to the Promotion Detail Selection Window, click Exit.
In the Exception ID field, click the Except check box, and type the promotion number. Repeat until you have identified the exceptions where appropriate.
Click Save.