Prequalifying promotions

Approval status – the promotion approval status is equal to Approved, and has not been Disabled.

Date range – the promotion's from and to date range is valid.

Catalog – the promotion book is associated with the same catalog as items in the user's cart.

Benefits type – the promotion's benefits are of the same type (cart or cart line). For example, when calculating cart line promotions, no cart promotions are evaluated.

Items – the promotion's included items match items in the user's cart. The promotion's excluded items exclude the promotion from evaluation if they match any items in the user's cart.

Cart exclusivity – an exclusive cart promotion excludes all other promotions in the cart.

Cart line exclusivity –an exclusive cart line promotion excludes all other promotions in all of the cart lines within the cart.

Promotions at the cart line level are applied before promotions at the cart level. Promotions (including automatic, coupon, exclusive) are calculated for each cart line item, then promotions (including automatic, coupon, exclusive) are calculated for the cart.

Automatic promotions are applied before coupon promotions, for example within each cart line, or within the cart.

Multiple automatic promotions are applied in order by valid-from date (oldest first).

Multiple coupons are applied in the order they were added to the cart.

If multiple exclusive promotions apply to a particular cart line or cart, the first promotion found is applied (found in order by valid-from date).