Forgot to mention: We did something like this at my last company. If certain orders were over $300, they would get $50 off of their order. I coded this in by distributing it to all lines as a % using that OrderHed.DiscountPercent.
Code was similar to this:
if ( oh.DocTotalCharges >= 300 )
{
oh.DiscountPercent = 100m * (50m / oh.DocTotalCharges);
}
That way the discount would be applied in full once all lines were shipped, and didn’t look weird applying on a single line, as you mentioned.
You’re right, I figured it would be doing something different. I guess I didn’t explain it well enough.
Yes, I was using this field. I realised the hard way that there is much more to it than that.
This is a very good idea. I can see this working for most general discounts we’d apply. There are instances where I’d have to get creative, but the misc charge would also work.
Just to clarify, If I make 2 or more shipments for the same order, and the misc charge has a frequency of “First”, the misc charge will only be applied to the first invoice, not any following invoice?
Here I thought the frequency referred to the lines. I thought the misc charge would be applied to the first line (the alternative being applying it to all lines).
This is very helpful information, thank you for sharing!
That’s correct. I’ve never used the “Every” option, so I am not sure how that one works, but “First” means it will apply to the first shipment of any line on the order (if it’s a Header Misc Charge), or the first shipment of any quantity tied to that line (if it’s a Line Misc Charge). If it’s “Last”, then it applies to the final shipment that closes out that order.
That’s super useful. I really appreciate you sharing this knowledge. I guess I could have read it in the docs, but I never even thought about doing that.
You’ve helped me understand this side of Epicor a LOT more, so thank you very much!
