API for auto discount based on customer group Shoopify Plus - api

Hi we have a shopify plus store and we have to provide a auto discount based on the customer groipus.
Suppose a customr is in vip group he should get automatically 50 % discount.
I can see shopify don't provide this.
Can you please provide an API reference with which i can detect the customer group and apply discount on his cart.

Check out the Shopify Script Generator here https://jgodson.github.io/shopify-script-creator/
I use this for creating all our scripts and it makes it so much easier.
I currently have a script which automatically applies free delivery to all customers with a "VIP Platinum" tag from our loyalty program, you can do the same thing for discounts.
tip, don't forget to export and save the file somewhere, this way if you need to edit or add another rule to it you don't need to start from scratch again.
edit: forgot to mention, as per your requirement this doesn't apply a discount code either. you can use the generator to create another script to block discounts from being used with this if you need/want

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how do i add additional line items to a NetSuite order via API

our Shopify store syncs with NetSuite and we send orders with line items from Shopify to NS. However there are often situations where we need to enrich the orders in NS with zero value items that we don't want on the shopify order. E.g. marketing materials that we want to send out to the customer.
SuiteQL isn't an option as there is no way to add / update
SOAP API seems like a winner but good-god it's complicated
Could i build a complex rules engine in suite script that looks at the order and based on whatever it add line items?
any advice from someone who has done it before would be great?
You can use User-Event/Workflow or Map-Reduce/Scheduled/Mass-Update scripts which will filter orders, and update orders.

Shopify changing product price for variation by app

I am a shopify partner, I am trying to get around the the variant limits of shopify by coding an app and also because my client has a complicated formula for calculating the price. I don't have a problem with the part that adds the information for my variants to the order, however when I want to modify the price based on the user selection, it doesn't seem an easy task to do.
I came across couple of apps which does the same thing by adding a new product or variation which is not optimal for my use case, is there any app that does the job without adding extra information to the database, if so, how?
Qualified Yes
Unfortunately, Shopify doesn't give us a lot of options to edit prices of items dynamically. Here are the two options that I know of that will allow you to adjust the price of a product directly - however, both have limitations.
Using Shopify Script Editor
If you're working with a Shopify Plus merchant, you can use the Shopify Script Editor to dynamically adjust the prices of products, provided that the direction you adjust is down. You cannot increase the price of a product using the script editor - so for your use case, the list price would have to be the most expensive possible price that the item sells for, which you would then discount appropriately using the app.
Using draft orders
Using an app, you can use Shopify's Draft Order API to create an order with custom discounts and/or create completely custom items that are independent of the products set up in the product database.
The basic flow for this is that when the customer clicks 'checkout' you halt the normal navigation, send the cart contents to your app, create a draft order with the appropriate pricing, then supply the front-end code with the draft-order checkout/invoice URL so that you can send the customer there instead of the normal checkout. This has several limitations, however, including that prices of existing products can only be discounted, not increased, and the fact that Shopify will not allow a customer to use discount codes on a draft order invoice - once an order is set up this way, Shopify's assumption is that all prices are final.
Disclaimer: Sorry if someone sensible doesn't like a response with a link :) I'm not related to this app I'm just a user.
On a project with complex pricing, we use the app Wholesale Pricing Discount by Wholesale Helper we liked because is easy to import multiple pricing by-product and relate it by customer.
this app does not multiply the products, they use customer tags. maybe that can give you some guidance.
An important rule on Shopify is you can't increase the price by API on an order, you can just reduce i

How to add different dimensions in product?

Hello Shopify Developers.
I'm a newbie on Shopify. How can we add a tab in product pages as Dimensions? Through this tab, we should be able to edit and change the dimensions for each specific product.
Would you give me a suggestion to do that? please teach me.
Best regards, Siva.
Shopify is not designed to allow customers to enter custom dimensions and have that affect the final price of the item.
However, this can be accomplished in principle through some roundabout steps, which involve a hidden priced product and a fair bit of javascript and the use of line-item properties to link everything together.
If you're feeling ambitious and want to make such a system yourself, the basic flow would be:
Create a product that either has a $0.01 value (or whatever the lowest denomination is in your currency) or a value of whatever the cost-per-smallest-unit that you want to sell by
Update your store templates so that any products that are marked as a component product (via tags, metafields, product type, or whatever you choose to go with) do not get displayed on collection pages, search results, etc.
For your product pages that need custom dimensions, you will need to create any relevant input fields and add whatever formulas you need to convert user inputs into units of your component product
When the item is added to cart, you will need custom javascript to add the correct quantity of the component item at the same time that the main/visible item is added to the cart. At this step, I would recommend adding line-item properties to both items that would identify that they belong together.
You will need to update your cart to hide the component product and add its price to the main/visible item for display purposes, and the quantity-update and item-remove features in your cart to make sure that when the main/visible product is updated or removed the component product is updated appropriately as well.
This can be quite the undertaking to try to take on yourself, so if any of the above steps seem daunting I would strongly recommend looking for an app in Shopify's app store that can do these steps for you. There are a lot of product option/customization apps available, and many of them have free trials that you can take advantage of to see if they meet your needs.
Of course, if you have the skills and ambition to take this project on, great! The above flow should hopefully get you started, and if you need further advice on any specific step feel free to ask another question.

How do I access Shopify data without advanced account?

All I'm wanting to do is track sales of certain products from a certain date. My company is wanting to add a banner to track sales goals for raising money for charities. So basically, we'd tag a few products as being part of that goal, set a goal, and then need to update the goal progress by a certain amount every time a sale is made on one of those products. As far as I can tell, without access to Shopify's analytics API, this is not possible. How can I do this?
What you want to build is perfectly possible. However, you need to generate Private App Credentials, so you can use Shopify API. It doesn't matter if you have an account by yourself, someone else can follow these steps and send you the credentials your way.
If you don't actually need to modify anything through the API, you could have them set a webhook (Settings -> Notifications -> Webhook) on Order Creation (or similar) that posts to your server and you can check what product got sold and see if it has got the tag.
The "easy" way to do this is to create an app that receives order webhooks and can check on tagged products and keep a sum of target items sold.
Then the app should have use a script tag to insert a simple script with the current value into the web page at a configured place by css selector
OR the app could update one or more snippet files that you could include until the promo is done.
I'd tend to go with the script tag option since that's a bit more flexible and you should be able to change your theme when the promo is over to report results without having to touch the app again.

Can we override inventory check in BigCommerce

I want customers to order the product even if it is out of stock, however I want to keep the Inventory tracking option ON as well. So for example if I have a product with 100 items in the stock, if someone orders it I need to see how much left in the inventory and on the other hand of product is out of stock, customer should still be able to order it. Is there a way we can achieve this while overriding any API?
We got it to work by using ajax and javascript. Basically we replaced the text that is generated by bigcommerce for inventory with a little script that checks inventory through our ERP. We then turned off inventory tracking for all products and backorders are now available. I wish I could post a few lines of code to help you, but the script is specific to our database. You can still use all the other features of the API (order import etc.), but you are not using the api for inventory tracking.
Hopefully this gets the wheels turning.