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Known issues in Promotion Center and Design Wizard templates

Learn about current issues relating to some Merchant Solutions features.

Article ID: SLN19465

Known issues related to Promotion Center

Promotion banner previews

Promotion banner previews will not preview until the promotion is active and published.

Item-level promotions for items with options

In the case where items with options do not have a unique item code for each option, and an item-level promotion with a quantity restriction is set up, the quantity restriction will be applied to each option rather than the item. For example: an item-level promotion is set up for a t-shirt, with the maximum quantity that can be purchased with the promotion set at 1. There are three size options for the shirt - small, medium, and large - but each size option does not have its own unique item code. In this case, the promotion quantity restriction will be applied to each size, rather than to the item with any size selected - i.e., a customer could purchase 1 small t-shirt, 1 medium t-shirt, and 1 large t-shirt, each with the promotion applied.

Hitting the back button isn't taking you back to the promotion list

While you are editing a promotion, if you hit the back button, you are not taken back to your promotion list. As a work around use the Cancel button at the bottom of the page and you will be redirected back to your promotion list.

Illustration shown on design page is not an accurate depiction

The illustration shown on the design page for the Category Grid and Item page is not an accurate depiction of how promotion messaging will appear on your store. Currently there is no work around for this, our engineers are working on making this improvement.

Test orders not reflecting promotion

When placing a test order the shopping cart may not accurately reflect the promotion that has been applied, however when reviewing the test order in the Order Manager it will be applied. It will also reflect the promotion application in the Promotion Center, as a test order will count against the available uses.

New promotions not being reflected in the floating cart

New promotions or modified promotions are not being reflected in the floating cart unless the buyer updates the shopping cart contents.

Sort order is not maintained when rank is modified

When the rank is modified the sort order is not maintained. By default promotions will be ranked by the promotion status.

Products with item options may not display banner

If you have selected to include an item that has item options, the promotion badge will not appear if the main product code has not been included. Work around is to include the main or base product code in the item picker.

Product level promotions cannot be created on unpublished items

You will be unable to create a promotion or preview a promotion on items that have not been published.

Promotion banners for non-active promotions are showing in the Store Editor

If you pause a promotion that had banners created for product and item pages, these banners will continue to display in the Store Editor. While these banners will continue to display in the Store Editor, they will not remain active on your live site once a promotion has been made inactive.

Tax doesn't get recalculated properly in Order Manager

If you modify an order, in the Order Manager, that had a promotion applied, the tax does not get recalculated. To ensure that you are charging the correct amount for tax, you will need to manually recalculate the tax.

Preview for product page promotion doesn't take you to the correct product page

If you create a promotion that includes all items, and then design a product page promotion banner and try to preview it, you will not be taken to the correct product page. When you preview the product page promotion information, you will be redirected either to a Gift Certificate page or to an item that i s set to not be orderable.

Note: Category level promotions are not currently available in Promotions Center.

Known Issues related to Editor 3.0 templates

848635Some merchants are getting an error (error 112: template switching failed) when attempting to complete the Design Wizard.

Until this issue is resolved, merchants can use the "Back" button in the Design Wizard to return to the start and then proceed through the wizard again. If you continue to receive this error, please contact Custom Care.

860422Visitors using Safari will not see the background color for the Message header (theme 05) or the Specials header (theme 01). This issue is caused by Safari not recognizing an empty url within the CSS and ignoring the entire rule. For example, when editing the CSS for theme 05 for the Specials header looks like

#specialstitle {background:$Specials-title-background-color url('$Specials-title-background-image') 0 0 no-repeat;}

Since no background image is used, the generated CSS looks like

#specialstitle {background:#cda451; url('') 0 0 no-repeat;

As you can see the url has no value. While Firefox ignore the empty value, Safari cannot reconcile the issue and the entire background rule is ignored.

Merchants can correct this issue in one of two ways:

  • Upload a transparent gif to the Special-title-background-image, Message-title-background-image, or whatever background-image variable that does not have an image associated with it already. You can right click the link for transparent gif and save the file to use for uploading.
  • Edit your CSS to remove the url('$Variable-name-here') 0 0 no-repeat line for any id or class calling a background image variable that has no image uploaded. Removing this from the CSS means you will not be able to upload an image for this variable should you choose to do so, unless you edit the CSS to restore the previous code that does call the image variable.

Note: This only affects visitors using Safari. Firefox 1.5 and later render correctly.

857686In the Design Wizard, the option to upload an entire header graphic incorrectly display the maximum dimensions as 750 x 120 pixels. The correct dimensions are 760 x 75 pixels. Images up to 120px in height can be uploaded, but when viewing your site in the Store Editor on on the published site will display the header as only 75 pixels in height (in other words your header may appear to be cut off).

To correct this issue merchants can either upload a header background image of no more than 760 x 75 pixels (through the Design Wizard or in Store Editor) or edit your CSS to display a larger header background image.