Discount Rules / Rewards

When creating Discounts in the Vendr back-office they are defined using a series of rule and reward builders that let you configure exactly when a Discount should apply and what exactly the Reward should be for that Discount.

Out of the box, these builders come with a handful of the most common Rules / Rewards that should suit the majority of web stores needs, however if you should need to create your own Rules / Rewards then these are extendable via a Provider model allowing you to incorporate your own custom logic.

Discount Rules

There are two types of Discount Rules in Vendr and these are:

• Order Discount Rules - Determine whether a discount should apply to an Order, returning a Fulfilled/Unfulfilled status whether the Rule logic has been met.

• Order Line Discount Rules - Determine whether a discount should apply to an Order Line within an Order, returning a Fulfilled/Unfulfilled status whether the Rule logic has been met. Where the status is Fulfilled, a list of all Order Lines that are fulfilled by this Rule are also returned.

Example Custom Order Discount Rule Provider

An example of an Order Discount Rule Provider would look something like this:

[DiscountRuleProvider("myCustomOrderRule", "My Custom Order Rule")]
public class MyCustomOrderRuleProvider : OrderDiscountRuleProviderBase<MyCustomOrderRuleProviderSettings>
{
    public override DiscountRuleResult ValidateRule(DiscountRuleContext ctx, MyCustomOrderRuleProviderSettings settings)
    {
        if (/* Some custom logic */)
            return Fulfilled();
        
        return Unfulfilled();
    }
}

public class MyCustomOrderRuleProviderSettings
{
    [DiscountRuleProviderSetting(Key = "priceType",
        Name = "Price Type",
        Description = "The type of price to compare against")]
    public OrderPriceType PriceType { get; set; }

    ...
}

All Order Discount Rule Providers inherit from a base class OrderDiscountRuleProviderBase<TSettings> where TSettings is the Type of a POCO model class representing the Discount Rule Providers settings.

The class must be decorated with DiscountRuleProviderAttribute which defines the Discount Rule Providers alias and name, and can also specify a description or icon to be displayed in the Vendr back-office. The DiscountRuleProviderAttribute is also responsible for defining a labelView for the Provider.

Rule Providers then have a ValidateRule method which accepts a DiscountRuleContext as well as an instance of the Providers TSettings settings model, inside which you can perform your custom logic, returning a DiscountRuleResult to notify Vendr of the Rule outcome.

If the passed in context (which contains a reference to the Order) meets the Rule's criteria, then a fulfilled DiscountRuleResult can be returned by calling return Fulfilled(); or alternatively if the Order didn't meet the Rules criteria an unfulfilled DiscountRuleResult can be returned by calling return Unfulfilled();.

Example Custom Order Line Discount Rule Provider

An example of an Order Line Discount Rule Provider would look something like this:

[DiscountRuleProvider("myCustomOrderLineRule", "My Custom Order Line Rule")]
public class MyCustomOrderLineRuleProvider : OrderLineDiscountRuleProviderBase<MyCustomOrderLineRuleProviderSettings>
{
    public override DiscountRuleResult ValidateRule(DiscountRuleContext ctx, MyCustomOrderLineRuleProviderSettings settings)
    {
        if (/* Some custom logic */)
            return Fulfilled(fulfilledOrderLines);
        
        return Unfulfilled();
    }
}

public class MyCustomOrderLineRuleProviderSettings
{
    [DiscountRuleProviderSetting(Key = "priceType",
        Name = "Price Type",
        Description = "The type of price to compare against")]
    public OrderPriceType PriceType { get; set; }

    ...
}

All Order Line Discount Rule Providers inherit from a base class OrderLineDiscountRuleProviderBase<TSettings> and follows much the same requirements as the Order Discount Rule Provider defined above. Where they do differ though is in the ValidateRule method implementation and when a fulfilled DiscountRuleResult is returned, an Order Line Discount Rule should also return a collection of Order Lines processed by the Rule that have meet the rules criteria by calling return Fulfilled(fulfilledOrderLines);.

Discount Rewards

Example Custom Discount Reward Provider

An example of a Discount Reward Provider would look something like this:

[DiscountRewardProvider("myDiscountReward", "My Discount Reward")]
public class MyDiscountRewardProvider : DiscountRewardProviderBase<MyDiscountRewardProviderSettings>
{
    public override DiscountRewardCalculation CalculateReward(DiscountRewardContext ctx, MyDiscountRewardProviderSettings settings)
    {
        var result = new DiscountRewardCalculation();

        // Some custom calculation logic goes here 

        return result;
    }
}

public class MyDiscountRewardProviderSettings
{
    [DiscountRewardProviderSetting(Key = "priceType",
        Name = "Price Type",
        Description = "The price that will be affected by this reward")]
    public OrderPriceType PriceType { get; set; }

    ...
}

All Discount Reward Providers inherit from a base class DiscountRewardProviderBase<TSettings> where TSettings is the Type of a POCO model class representing the Discount Reward Providers settings.

The class must be decorated with DiscountRewardProviderAttribute which defines the Discount Reward Providers alias and name, and can also specify a description or icon to be displayed in the Vendr back-office. The DiscountRewardProviderAttribute is also responsible for defining a labelView for the Provider.

Reward Providers then have a CalculateReward method which accepts a DiscountRewardContext as well as an instance of the Providers TSettings settings model, inside which you can perform your custom calculation logic, returning a DiscountRewardCalculation instance which defines any Reward values to apply to the Order.

// Add a shipping total discount
result.ShippingTotalPriceAdjustments.Add(new DiscountAdjustment(ctx.Discount, price));

// Add a subtotal discount
result.SubtotalPriceAdjustments.Add(new DiscountAdjustment(ctx.Discount, price));

Common Features

Settings Objects

Label Views

Both the DiscountRuleProviderAttribute and the DiscountRewardProviderAttribute required by Rule/Reward Providers allow you to define a labelView for the Provider which should be the path to an Angular JS based view file that will be used to render a label in the Rule/Reward Builder UI. Where no labelView is supplied, one will be looked for by convention at the following location:

~/app_plugins/vendr/views/discount/{Type}/labelViews/{ProviderAlias}.html

Type is either rules or rewards, depending on the Type of Provider it refers to, and ProviderAlias is the alias of the Provider.

The Rule/Reward Label View should provide a user friendly summary of it's settings to display in the relevant Builder UI.

The Label View file will be passed a model property which will be a JavaScript representation of the given Providers settings object.

<span ng-if="model.priceType">Order {{ model.priceType | vendrSplitCamelCase }} Discount</span>