Free Goods
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Applies to: Sana Commerce Cloud 125 and higher in SAP S/4HANA.
Free goods are extra materials added to the shopping cart automatically when a certain material is purchased, or as a bonus. These materials cannot be removed or edited by customers in the shopping cart. For example, if customers buy a gearbox and gaskets, they can receive a maintenance tool kit for free.
Transaction Codes
- Free goods - Create (VBN1)
- Free goods - Change (VBN2)
- Free goods - Display (VBN3)
Use the Create Free Goods table in SAP S/4HANA to add free goods to a certain customer.
Two types of free goods exist in SAP S/4HANA:
- Inclusive
- Exclusive
Sana Commerce Cloud supports only the exclusive type of free goods.
Inclusive
The customer pays only for a part of the goods required. The rest of the goods are for free. This is called inclusive free goods, which means that part of the purchased quantity is designated as free and not billed.
For example, of the ten bottles of wine ordered two are designated as free goods. This means that ten bottles of wine are delivered to a customer as ordered, but a customer is billed only for eight bottles and two bottles are given free of charge.
Exclusive
The customer pays for the goods ordered and receives some additional goods. This is known as exclusive free goods and means that free goods are granted for an additional quantity to that in the sales order. More is delivered than was ordered and the additional quantity is not billed. The goods delivered as free do not have to be the same as the one ordered.
For example, when four coffee machines are ordered, the vendor supplies a pack of coffee free of charge.
