Five New Optimizely Certifications are Here! Validate your expertise and advance your career with our latest certification exams. Click here to find out more

Quan Mai
Feb 1, 2019
  5579
(3 votes)

New feature in Commerce 13: Exclude catalog items per promotion

In Commerce 10.1, we added a feature to allow you to exclude items from the promotion engine. Some items - such as gift cards - can be seen as "money" and should never be discounted, or used as a condition to calculate other discounts. That is a very nice feature, but our partners - as always, keep asking for more - for example, Joel from Avensia wrote this lengthy post to explain what they need https://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/Episerver-Commerce/Thread-Container/2017/11/exclude-specific-catalog-entries-from-a-promotion/ and proposed a few solutions.

Basically, you might need to exclude certain catalog items from a specific promotion. A scenario I can think of, is that you want to have a 20% site-wide off, but a specific supplier said no (which is not uncommon for luxury brands). So you have to exclude items from that supplier.

That is solved in Commerce 13 with a new property in each and every builtin and custom promotion:

You can drag and drop catalogs, categories and entries to make them excluded by this specific promotion.

You can also set it using APIs by using new `ExcludedCatalogItems` property:

promotionData.ExcludedCatalogItems = new List<ContentReference>() { catalogLink, categoryLink, entryLink };

Note that the exclusion is always recursive. So if you add a category to ExcludedCatalogItems, all subcategories and their subcategories will be excluded.

Commerce 13 is on its way and can be released in a month or so (as always, don't take my words as promises)

Feb 01, 2019

Comments

Sebastian Enberget
Sebastian Enberget Feb 1, 2019 02:42 PM

Cool! And when will commerce 13 be out? :)

Quan Mai
Quan Mai Feb 5, 2019 09:19 AM

@Sebbe: I expect it to be out in 1 month, but that is not fixed. 

Please login to comment.
Latest blogs
New Optimizely Certifications – Take Your Skills to the Next Level

Big news! We’ve just launched five new Optimizely certifications to help you validate your skills and stand out in the world of digital experience...

Satata Satez | Feb 28, 2025

Optimizely Graph Cache: The Power of "Item"

In the world of content delivery, speed is king. A high cache hit ratio is the secret weapon for delivering snappy performance and happy users. But...

Jonas Bergqvist | Feb 28, 2025

Boosting Graph Query Performance with Cached Templates

To optimize query performance, Cached Templates pre-process and caches translated queries as templates. The initial execution of a query generates ...

Jonas Bergqvist | Feb 27, 2025

Exploring Optimizely SaaS CMS – What’s New & How to Accelerate your Build

In my latest video, I take a fresh look at Optimizely SaaS CMS , covering some of the recent improvements aimed at enhancing the editor experience....

Minesh Shah (Netcel) | Feb 27, 2025