Adjustments

Overview

Adjustments help to track adjustments made to entities such as an order or line item. Adjustments can be due to various reasons such as adding a promotion, or adding taxes etc.

The adjustments table has a polymorphic relationship with the actions leading to it. e.g. Promotion Adjustments

The adjustment model has the following attributes:

• adjustable_type: The type of adjustable for which adjustment is created it can be an order or a line_item.
• adjustable_id: The id of the adjustable for which the adjustment was created.
• amount: The amount for the adjustment it can be positive or negative depending on whether the amount has to be added or substracted from the adjustable total. e.g. it is negative in case of promotions and positive in case of taxes.
• eligible: This is used to check if the created adjustment should be considered while calculating totals for the adjustable. Adjustment which have eligible as true are only considered during the adjustable total calculations. This field is especially important while handling promotions. A promotion is considered applied if adjustments created due to it are eligible.
• included: This is used to assert whether, amount adjusted is already present in the adjustable total. In case it is false the amount should be considered during total computation.

Adjustment Polymorphic Associations

Promotion Adjustments

Adjustments play a very important role while applying promotions. They help in tracking the entity for which the adjustment was created using adjustable_type and adjustable_id and the amount which was added.

The eligible field is used to verify which adjustments are going to affect the computations for an order or line item. Only those adjustments which have eligible as true affect the calculation.