Proposal to add a value for strikethrough (regular) pricing to PriceTypeEnumeration

[alex-jansen]

Enumeration type PriceTypeEnumeration currently has enumeration values such as ListPrice, SalePrice, and MSRP.

There are a few more price types that are common in the industry such as MemberPrice (proposed in #3563), and also RegularPrice or StrikethroughPrice (a previously advertised and charged price). A RegularPrice or StrikethroughPrice is typically lower than a ListPrice or MSRP, but higher than a SalePrice, and we therefore propose to add either RegularPrice or StrikethroughPrice as new values under PriceTypeEnumeration.

StrikethroughPrice represents a more intuitive and visual form of a previous charged price, while RegularPrice might fit better with the existing enumeration values under PriceTypeEnumeration.

[gmackenz]

Alex, StrikethoughPrice seems like a reasonable addition as a new value for PriceTypeEnumeration, will you create a pull request for that? Looks you've already done so for RegularPrice.

[alex-jansen]

Hi Gordon, my consideration here was that RegularPrice and StrikethroughPrice are semantically quite similar, i.e., both are prices advertised previously before a sale. The main difference I see is that StrikethroughPrice is a direct representation of what is shown on the Web page. I see no major issue adding both though, even if they could be considered aliases/synonyms, so will go ahead with that in the next release.

[gmackenz]

I have no opinion about pricing myself except like everyone I like receiving the best deal on it. Maybe just update the description of RegularPrice to state that is also represents strikethrough prices? But as you say, maybe it's important to directly distinguish between the two price kinds.

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[alex-jansen]

Added in release 28.1

[fthobe]

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