Title: Variation specific discounts?
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# Variation specific discounts?

 *  [Kahil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kahil/)
 * (@kahil)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variation-specific-discounts/)
 * I know how to use the dynamic pricing plugin, but I’m looking for a more specific
   means of giving a discount on a product with lots of options, without having 
   to create a ton of variations. If I have a lot of variations, as we all know,
   it tends to slow things down and make things more time consuming to manage.
 * I have a product that is currently setup with only two variations where they 
   can have a combo of two available options. When added up, those two options amount
   to a LOT of variations. I’d like to give people discounts if they purchase specific
   combos of available options. I can’t seem to find a way to achieve this without
   creating every single possible variation. Even if I did so and wanted to use 
   the Dynamic Pricing plugin to target specific variations, that plugin only lists
   the variation id number rather than the name, which in turn makes it that much
   more difficult and tedious to even setup. There has to be a more elegant solution
   out there to do this without creating a product with nearly a hundred variations
   when only two are needed because there are only two prices.
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variation-specific-discounts/#post-7482949)
 * If this is CUSTOM logic, you need to use custom code. Don’t expect a pre-made
   solution to cater for unique situations like this.
 * Prices can be filtered in the cart, and you should be able too see what attributes
   were chosen so you can adjust the price.
 * In addition you’d also need code to adjust the price on the product page. That
   one might be more tricky because you need to adjust after each selection. Not
   sure of the top of my head how this would be done. A developer would need to 
   investigate.
 * Alternatively, if variations are proving difficult to manage, you could consider
   simple products, then serve them up together. You’d need to manage each product
   combo separately, but it would offer more flexibility in pricing?
 *  Thread Starter [Kahil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kahil/)
 * (@kahil)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variation-specific-discounts/#post-7482959)
 * First, no need to be rude. If you’re just going to talk down to users, then why
   bother commenting? Nothing was expected in terms of having a special plugin made.
   The only thing that would be expected is hopes of making variable products easier
   to manage. Things like filters, being able to bulk set sale prices based on the
   regular price (can only do so if something is already entered into a variation’s
   sale price), etc.
 * It isn’t that variations are inherently difficult to manage. It is that the product
   itself loads slower the more variations you add, especially because the number
   you can manage at once is limited to what…25?
 * The idea here is to give a discount if a user buys three specific combinations
   of a product. Neither the coupons nor dynamic pricing plugins offer that flexibility…
   even if they all were broken out into separate variations.
 * Creating simple products for over 100 variations just to combine them with a 
   bundle or composite plugin, which aren’t cheap plugins, would be even more unmanageable.
   Can’t imagine that’d help keep the store running fast….besides needing countless
   hours just to set up.
 * The only thing I can think of is to break the product up into sets of variable
   products, each having the separate variables. Then I could use the dynamic pricing
   plugin to apply that discount based on specific variables.
 * Alternatively, it would be a LOT easier if the dynamic pricing plugin didn’t 
   list variables by ID. Or at least have a mouse over on the ID numbers that displays
   the variation options.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variation-specific-discounts/#post-7482962)
 * > Don’t expect a pre-made solution to cater for unique situations like this.
 * This is just general advice. Niche logic is not going to be covered by extensions
   which cater to the masses. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * Your feedback about variations being hard to manage is already noted and work
   is going on to refresh to UI. Thats not something you’re going to see short term
   though as it’s a massive task.
 * > Creating simple products for over 100 variations just to combine them with 
   > a bundle or composite plugin, which aren’t cheap plugins, would be even more
   > unmanageable.
 * Do they need to be on a single product page? I don’t know what you’re selling,
   but some cases could have a category of products for example, if each ‘variation’
   is different.

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