Some customers are defining child rates or season ticket holder rates as a percentage of a full rate. For example, the amount of the child tariff could match the full tariff with a discount of 40% (or 10€).
Currently only "no discount" or "fixed discounts" can be defined for a tariff
This feature adds a new discount possibility: tariff as a percentage of another tariff
Usage
Tariff definition
Percentage tariffs can be defined in the Organisation | Initialisation | Tariffs screen along the usual tariff settings.
When a percentage tariff is selected you have to provide additional information
- The parent tariff
- The discount rate and rounding rule
Rate table calculations
In the Organisation | Catalog | Rates table menu, the operator can either:
- Override the rule (other rate, parent tariff, etc.)
- Disable the rule, for instance because this tariff must not be available in the current rates table
- Override the amounts
To compute missing prices, you have to click on the "Calculate price" button with one of the two options presented in the popup
- Compute "All table" : the whole table is computed
- Compute "Only empty cells" : empty cells will be computed and the non-empty cells will be left as they are
In the Amount screen, Display filter part, additional info is displayed next to the tariff in these cases:
- If Tariff has Parent "Fixed discount", there is additional info: "(-<Discount Amount> of <Parent Discount tariff code>)"
- If Tariff has "Parent Percentage discount", there is additional info: "(-<Discount Percentage>% of <Parent Discount tariff code>)"
In the Amount screen, Amount part, an icon & tooltip is displayed next to the tariff if it has a Child discount tariff:
- Fixed discount: "<Child Discount tariff code>: -<Discount Amount> of <Parent Discount tariff code>"
- Percentage discount: "<Child Discount tariff code>: -<Discount Percentage> of <Parent Discount tariff code>"
Notes
- This feature impacts only the rates tables in both top-down (catalog price) and bottom-up (ticket base price) modes. It doesn't have any impact on:
- The price breakdown
- The sales process
- The length of the "dependency chain" is max 2. That means: amount of tariff A may depend on tariff B that, in turn, depends on tariff C, but tariff C cannot depend on a tariff D
