Minimum Purchase for WooCommerce

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Plugin Description

Minimum Purchase for WooCommerce (free) allows you to set up minimum purchase rules for products in your WooCommerce 1.0+ store. Purchases must meet these rules to proceed to checkout payment.

In the free plugin, rules search by Role/Membership or 'Not logged in' status. (see the Pro Plugin for all search options).

Error Message in Table Format

If a purchase in your store fails a minimum purchase rule, an error message appears at the top of the checkout page, identifying the error situation and rule requirements. The customer must resolve the error, before the purchase can be completed.

Changelog Info

1.0 - 2013-01-15 * Initial Public Release

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Tutorials

Set Up a Basic Minimum Purchase Rule
Set Up a 'Cart Contents' Rule

Minimum Purchase Add Rule

Set Up a Basic Minimum Purchase Rule

How does the rule choose what to look at in the cart? [Search Criteria]

By Role/Membership

(all other possible criteria available in the Pro Plugin)

Role/Membership is used within Wordpress to control access and capabilities, when a role is given to a user. Wordpress assigns certain roles by default such as Subscriber for new users or Administrator for the site's owner. Roles can also be used to associate a user with a pricing level. Use a role management plugin like User Role Editor to establish custom roles, which you can give to a user or class of users. Then you can associate that role with a Minimum Purchase Rule. So when the user logs into your site, their Role interacts with the appropriate Rule.

How is the rule applied to the cart search results? [Rule applied to]

All – work with the total of the units/prices
Each – apply the rule to each product in the Rule Population
Any – Same as each, but limits the rule testing to the first X number of products

Rule Application Method - All

Does the Rule apply to Units Quantity amount or Price amount?

Units Quantity Amount
Price Amount

Here’s a sample of a minimum purchase rule:

If the purchaser is a Subscriber - [search criteria:Subscriber]
The minimum total for all purchases - [rule applied to: all]
Must be greater than $20. - [price amount: $20]

Cart Search Criteria

Set Up a 'Cart Contents' Rule

Use Cart Search Criteria of 'Not Logged In'

in Cart Search Criteria Box
in membership List by Role Box
Select 'Not logged in (just visiting)'

With this set up, the rule will act as if it were an 'Apply to all products in the cart' selection, for any customer who is not logged in. This will be very useful, as many stores do not require a login to make a purchase. Equally, similar rules can be set up for specific roles.

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Documentation

Minimum purchase rules are applied at checkout time. They are a tested against the cart contents, and if the purchase fails a rule, an error message is produced. And even if the 'continue to payment button' is selected, checkout won't proceed until the error is resolved.

Plugin Requirements

WooCommerce 1.0+
WordPress 3.3+
PHP 5+

Plugin Options

Optons Page 1

Show Error Messages in Table Format

Error message formatting is offered in text style by default (value="no"), and in table format as an option.

Show Error Messages Just Before Checkout Products List

The error message can be show in two places - just before the checkout products list, and just before the checkeout address area. This option sets the error message to display before the products list.

Show Error Messages Just Before Checkout Products List - HTML Selector

For the Product area error message, this option supplies the ID or Class HTML selector this message appears before. This selector would appear in your theme"s checkout area, just above the products display area. Be sure to include the "." or "#" selector identifier before the selector name.
Default value = ".checkout_cart".

Show Error Messages Just Before Checkout Address List

The error message can be show in two places - just before the checkout products list, and just before the checkeout address area. This is the 2nd second option showing the error message, and becomes particularly useful if your theme's checkout is a multi-pane design.

Show Error Messages Just Before Checkout Address List - HTML Selector

For the Address area error message, this option supplies the ID or Class HTML selector this message appears before. This selector would appear in your theme"s checkout area, just above the products display area. Be sure to include the "." or "#" selector identifier before the selector name.
Default value = ".wpsc_checkout_forms".

Show Rule ID in Error Message

There is an option to show the rule id in the error message. This is useful in testing to track error messages back to their originating rule.

Show Product Category Names in Minimum Purchase Error Message (Pro Only)

This (Pro Only) option allows the display of Product Category names in the error message, if error message criteria is included. This more full explanation of the rule criteria will help the customer resolve any errors.

Show Rule Category Names in Minimum Purchase Error Message (Pro Only)

This (Pro Only) option allows the display of Minimum Purchase Rule Category names in the error message, if error message criteria is included. This more full explanation of the rule criteria will help the customer resolve any errors.

Custom Minimum Purchase Error Message CSS, used at checkout time

There's an option to customize the css of the error message format chosen. Simply place the css in the option field, and it will override the standard css.

Options Page 2

Select a Currency Sign

Error message currency sign can be selected from the options available.

Apply More Than 1 Rule to Each Product

Do we apply multiple minimum purchase rules to EACH product in the cart? If not, we apply the FIRST rule we process which applies to a given product. It is ***Strongly Suggested*** that this option be set to "NO", as otherwise the compounding error messages could be quite confusing for the ecommerce customer.

Test Debugging Mode Turned On

The final option turns on the debugging mode. This mode will print to screen all of the structures used in rule testing and error message creation. Only use during testing.

Options Page 3

The killer buttons at the bottom of the options screen

Use these buttons wisely. Great to clear out test rules or repair errant structures. Very powerful, handle with care.

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Video Tutorials

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Installation Instructions

Download and install from WordPress.Org

Use the built-in WordPress plugin installer to download, install and activate the Free version of the plugin hosted at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimum-purchase-for-woocommerce
Please Note: WooCommerce 1.0 or above is needed to run this plugin successfully.

Version: 1.06 Last Updated: 3 Months 19 Hours ago Tested up to: WooCommerce 2.0

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Tips and Tricks

All Products in Cart - a Venn Diagram
Role Setup and Usage in Search Criteria
All in Population - Error Message Results
Each/Any in Population - Error Message Results
Fix Options Setup Page Problems (Reset to Defaults)
Show all Internal Data in Debugging Mode

All Products in Cart - Venn

All Products in Cart - a Venn Diagram

A diagram representing how the 'all products in cart' search criteria works with the cart itself.

Role Setup and Usage in Search Criteria

Role Setup

Role/Membership is used within Wordpress to control access and capabilities, when a role is given to a user. Wordpress assigns certain roles by default such as Subscriber for new users or Administrator for the site's owner. New Roles with unique names can be created using a role manager plugin. (As these new new roles are used for search criteria rather than access level, the new roles can have the lowest possible access level.)

Role Usage

Role list

Roles have a separate use as well. Think of it as 'logged in as ...' or 'not logged in'. So if a user is 'not logged in', that means the rule applies to anything they buy. Converserly, your store can used the logged in state to separate out tiers of rules. If the user is 'logged in as XXX', any rule with Role XXX in the rule search criteria will be tested against that user's cart contents.

When roles are selected as the sole group criteria, "OR" must be selected in the "And/OR" relationship box just to the left of the Role selection box. Otherwise an error message will be produced, requiring that a category be selected.

All in Population - Error Msg

All in Population - Error Message Results

When "all in population" is chosen, the rule acts on the totals of the population found to match the rule search criteria.

Apply to Each in Cart - Error Msg

Each/Any in Population - Error Message Results

When "each in population" or "any in population" is chosen, the rule acts on each individual product in the population found to match the rule search criteria.

Reset to Defaults Button

Fix Options Setup Page Problems (Reset to Defaults)

If the options setup is irretrievably messed up, there's an easy fix solution:

Take a snapshot of your existing setup, to allow you to recover any settings you'd like from the current setup.
Find the "Reset to Defaults" button (just below the "save changes" button)
Hit the button and all will be returned to default settings.
Re-apply those settings updates you desire.

Debug Options Switch

Show all Internal Data in Debugging Mode

If there are any issues that pop up during testing your Minimum Purchase rules, you have the option of turning on Debugging Mode. With Debugging Mode on, all of the rule, cart and decision structures used internally during processing are printed to the screen.

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Add rule

Apply rule to price

Apply rule to quantity

Cart search criteria

Error message table format

Error message text format

Options Page 1

Options Page 2

Options Page 3

Rule application method - all

Rule application method - any

Rule application method - each

4 Responses to Minimum Purchase for WooCommerce

Franco

May 8, 2013 at 7:15 pm

Hello locally but the plugin does it work?

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- admin
  
  May 8, 2013 at 8:29 pm
  
  Hi Franco,
  I’m not sure what you mean by locally, but the plugin certainly works….
  Vark
  
  Reply
Elliot

May 13, 2013 at 10:55 am

Looking to preset the quantity on the product page. So default for Product A could be 10x £6/product = £60 total

Or Product B could be 20x £15/product = £300 total

Is this something you can do?

Thanks

Elliot

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- admin
  
  May 13, 2013 at 11:08 am
  
  Hi Elliot,
  Thanks for your query. The functionality you’re talking about has to do with product presentation and grouping. There are a couple of established ways to handle that in Woo Land. Pricing Deals would pick up the established product grouping you are describing and allow you to deal price it on the fly.
  Best,
  Vark
  
  Reply