Discounts -- can this be done?

I have a bit of an odd situation.  

I have a 50% discount once the user reaches $1000.  Easy enough.  I have one product VK that is priced at $200 and not included in the 50% discount (there is never a discount for this product).  But, the $1000 actually should count the product VK at $400 towards the $1000 total to provide the discount.  However, the product VK is always charged at $200.  Is there a way to say basically "pretend this product is $400 for calculating the subtotal for the 50% discount" but the product will always cost $200 to the user, no matter what.

Here is what I tried, I set the price of product VK to $400 and set a discount for registered users of 50% so they always get the discount.  But then it uses only $200 when calculating the subtotal to see if they reached the $1000 and not $400 as it should.

Is there a plugin that might do this or is there another way to think about applying discounts to do this?  Charge the user $200 but use $400 when calculating subtotal to see if they get the 50% discount.

Hi,

May be its difficult to get this done by using existing discount rules.

I think you need to develop a custom rule to support this.

Regards,
nopAccelerate

lisab91 wrote:
The only solution I find is giving away a selling your product for $400 bundled with a free gift certificate of $200 to pay for the remaining $200. Try it to see a way to make it work, but it is a quite dirty and cumbersome trick

Yes it's ugly, but if it works, it works.  It's better than modifying the code, imo.  I'll give that a try see what it looks like.  Thanks for the idea!

Its nice idea! +1

I think I found how to bundle the gift card with another product.  I cannot figure out how to give it away free. Do I make the price -200?

lisab91 wrote:

Yes if you want to give on zero price(free) then you can use negative number also no problem it will work

Thanks,
Jatin

Hi.

Take a look at this plugin:

Free Gift Plugin for nopCommerce

You can have free gift selection by cart subtotal value, many rules as you want.

Any questions, just ask me!