Extending Discounts to support more use cases

[titusdmoore]

Overview

As it currently stands Discounts are in a good spot with several ways to apply discounts. That being said, to get in line with other ecommerce solutions, there are some additional features that can be added.

Additional Discounts:

• Product Variation discounts
• Quantity/Bulk Pricing Discounts
• Other general cart state discounts (e.g. buy one, get one)

Challenges

I am sure that there will be challenges that I cannot foresee, but the main one that is worth mentioning here is that there currently not a discount that uses cart state, so design decisions will need to be made as to how best to accomplish this.

Drawbacks

The main drawback I have identified is depending on how we approach handling product variations discounts, we may introduce a breaking change with existing product examples.

[olivermrbl]

@titusdmoore, thanks for submitting this feature request :)

A more extensible Discounts API is already on our radar. We expect to rethink the domain's functionality as we modularize it into a standalone package - similar to how we've done with Products. Your input is much appreciated!

Unfortunately, I can't give you a timeline right now. I hope I can share some more details in a couple of months. And if something changes in the meantime, I'll make sure to revert back to you.

[piereligio]

Any news? I'd really like being able to offer bundle discounts. Maybe I'll just work it around by making ad hoc bundle products for now.

[Saba-Shavidze]

@piereligio any updates?

[titusdmoore]

For anyone stumbling across this discussion, it appears that the new promotion module that seems to be shipping with version 2.0 will have some of the features discussed here.
Source: https://medusajs.com/promotion-module/