Exclude Promotion Price Rules from a Category

Question

I have a Category, which i don't wants to apply any Promotion Price Rules (both Catalog Price Rules and Shopping Cart Price Rules).

Even when i create a price rule and leaving blank as condition, so that this rule apply to all the products. For me this rule should also exclude this category and its products even leaving blank condition.

And also, Even its have any condition which should also exclude this category.

For a Category and its products, i don`t want to apply any promotion rules even promotion rule condition have or not, I don't want to allow any discount for this category products.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As far as I have found out, you can exclude products but only if they are added to the category. We have reported this at Varien because we only use configurable products in categories..but this makes it impossible to exclude products from a certain category because Magento only looks that the simple products.

If you have the simple product in the category, it works.. For us this is no solution because with over 20000 configurable products in categories, you really don't want to add the simple products as well. To much ballast since visitors only see the configurable products.

We have reported this at Varien and are currently waiting for their response. It seems to be one of the weak points in Magento that they don't have all functions well developed for all producttypes.

Answer 2

For shopping cart rules, under Apply the rule only to cart items matching the following conditions (leave blank for all items) add a constraint Category is not {Category Id here}

For shopping cart rules add the same thing but under the Conditions tab.

You cannot have a blank rule that does not apply to a certain category.

Answer 3

Maybe it is an idea to add as default the exlusion of the category? Then you don't have to add it all the time, and you don't have to change the code.

So change the template to be in your own admin theme and then just add your defaults? I hope it is so easy.

Answer 4

There are many ways to get this done,

the fastest way is :

1. Create an attribute and set it as "Use for Promo Rule Conditions"
2. Bulk assign products to this attribute (import csv file)
3. Set an exception to the rule for this specific attribute.