Skeleton Offers

    Content of this article

    1. Preliminary Remarks
    2. Technical Implementation
    3. Skeleton Offers in Wordpress Connector

    1. Preliminary Remarks

    If a single product is to be sold repeatedly, for example a weekly e-paper, it is not necessary to create a separate offer for each issue.
    Instead, an existing single product can be used and overwritten with external data. In this case, the single product becomes a “Skeleton offer”.  There is no separate offer type with the name “Skeleton offer” in the Merchant Backend.
    The offer creation in the Merchant Backend corresponds to that of single products. It is recommended
    • to create your own offers that are to be used exclusively as skeleton offers.
    • to clearly indicate in the internal information of the offer that it is an offer for use as a skeleton offer.

    3. Technical Implementation

     To overwrite an existing offer with external data when calling up the checkout, the plenigo PHP Integration can be adjusted.
    The following data, among others, can then be overwritten:

    • Title in Checkout
      The title on item level defines the title which is displayed to the customer.
    • Title on PDF files and in Merchant Backend
       The title on product level defines the title which is saved in plenigo data and is used for invoice creation.
    •  Price and currency for the offer
       If required, an alternative price or an alternative currency can be transfered.
    • Access Rights
      To get access to a certain topic, a special access right must be determined.
    • Product ID
      In order to be able to evaluate sales of skeleton offers in a targeted manner, an individual product ID can be transferred.

    4. Skeleton Offers in Wordpress Connector

    In order to overwrite an existing offer with individual data when calling up the checkout, a corresponding function is also available when using the Wordpress Connector.
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