HELP - "award points" for every order

[Guest]

Hi all

 

I am trying to encourage my customers to buy more, and to rkrrp buying after the first time. So, an "award points" system, like the ones that the credit cards give (to buy things with points), might be a good idea.

 

I need to do the following:

 

- Give the customers some points depending on the products ordered, or on the money they expend.

- Save these points for each user, that can be seen in user's history page

- When the decide to use their points, take them down from their storage

 

I have no idea on where to start, so if comeone can help me out, thanks!!

 

Maybe starting with taking a number out of the total ordered???

 

Thanks again folks!!

[ocularmagic]

Here would be my suggestions. Take them as you wish. You could add a new field to the customers table called something like customer_points. Then when they order, divide their order by however much you want to give them points for. For example if you want to give them one point for every five bucks, you would divide the total by five bucks and add that number to their existing total in the database. Then for the checkout side you could add a order total module that pulls their number of points from the database and multiplies it by a dollar amount. Say they get fifty cents for each point then show it being subtracted from the order total with a check box next to it. If they check the box, it subtracts the amount and clears their points, if they don't, it checks out as normal and adds their points to their existing points in the database. Very cool idea but I think it will take a bit of work to implement unless someone else is working on it already or there is a contribution for it.