Batch add price rules to products

[tanasi]

Hi,

i want to know what is the correct way of batch adding price rules to products?

Lets say we have a category with 100 products and want to enter a discount to 80 of them.

One way is to select each product and then enter the desired amount of discount.

But this method is really time consuming.

 

One other way is to assign a discount to the whole category (by using catalog price rules) and then deactivate discount to the 20 products that no sales is desired. This may seem as workaround but there is a catch. Using prestashop 1.5.2 and presenting products with a "price-drop" we get all products showing in the page: the 80 ones with a sign of a discount while the 20 ones without.

 

It seems that when presenting products with a discount only category is taken into account and not if there is any difference in original price.. I don't know if its a known issue or is there any better way of doing this...

 

Any ideas?