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Magento Minimum Amount For Category Overview

Magento Minimum Amount For Category extension is a unique extension which allows admin to customize the minimum order amount for individual categories.

In order to better boost up your sale, shop owners always try to make efforts to promote customers’ amount purchase. Set up a minimum order amount for each category when customers are purchasing is a good idea. Only when customers’ total amount is met with the minimum amount admin already set up, can customers’ order be moved to checkout process.

In order to avoid tiny order amount, setting the minimum order amount is the optimal choice. Besides minimum order amount for customer group, we can also configure minimum order amount for different categories. The extension is beneficial as it forces customers to shop more to meet the minimum order amount if they would like to complete the checkout process. The extension is one simple tool to boost your sales in particular and your overall revenue in general.

How does Magento Minimum Amount For Category extension work?

1. Instruction Manual

As an admin, you can set up your own store page by the most effective way that supports your trading objective. To polish the website configuration:

• Step 1: Go to Admin Panel => System => Configuration
• Step 2: At the left side of the page, find BSS COMMERCE => select Categories Minimum Amounts

After these 2 steps, a screen for configuration appears like the below picture:

In the configuration table, there are 4 boxes for admin to customize the extension: Enabled, Show Category, Select children categories price, Notification.

In Enabled: There are 2 options in Enable box: Yes and No.

• Choose Yes to enable the module and continue customizing on other sections.
• Choose No to disable this module.

In Show Category:

There are 2 options in Show Category box: Yes and No.

• Choose Yes to enable showing category name of item in shopping cart page
• Choose No to disable showing category name of item in shopping cart page

In Select children categories price:

There are 2 options in box: Min Price and Max Price

This box allows admin to set up price displaying for products which belong to many categories and have different prices in each category. When customers don’t add product to cart from any specific category but adding from other pages, for instance in the search result page, the price will be shown as the customization.

• Choose Min Price to show the lowest price in all categories which products belong to when products are purchased.
• Choose Max Price to show the highest price in all categories which products belong to when products are purchased.

In Notification:

In this box, admin can insert a custom notification message appears when customers order an amount lower than the minimum order amount being set.

Remember to use {{category}} in the custom message to automatically display exactly name of category the product are in, use {{price}} to automatically display exactly the minimum price for each category being set.

E.g: Category {{category}} has an order minimum of {{price}}

After all, click on Save Config button to save all configuration.

2. Set up Minimum Order Amount for each category

To set up minimum order amount for each category, follow these below instructions:

• Step 1: Go to Admin Panel => Catalog => Manage Categories
• Step 2: In Root Catalog at the left side => select category to set up minimum order amount.
• Step 3: In the appearing configuration page, choose Minimum Order Amount section

After these 3 steps, a screen for configuration appears like the below picture:

In the box Minium Amount, fill in with number of the minimum amount of each category.

In this example, when filling 1000 => the minimum amount of Furniture category is $1000 *for customers. So that customers have to place orders which worth more than 1000$ to proceed checkout.

If customer orders under-$1000-product, a message notification will appear in frontend like this picture:

After all, don’t forget to click on Save Config button to save all configuration.