Line item Cost + Discounts, wrong price?

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The Cart Transform API line items costs

Doesn’t reflect the price, after a discount has been applied.
This just seems misleading then

The cost of the merchandise line that the buyer will pay at checkout.

I have a case where I have a native automated discount, which changes the price of the product.
But when I read that price with any of the Cart line cost methods, I just get the original price in return.

Any way to overcome this, and actually either get the discount applied, or just get the actual adjusted price?

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One quick thought here would be to utilize that automatic discount in the code to pre-discount the price for your other code to utilize since it seems getting the discounted price natively is not supported there yet.

Not necessarily ideal but a quick workaround for now.

Frankly the discount codes and automatic discounts code apply after the transforms, I am unsure, but it would explain why you cannot see such price within the transforms.

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Not sure I understand how you would connect the automatic discount to set a pre-discount?
I can’t access the discount information via the Cart Transform, so I would have an entirely new extension running, or what are you thinking?

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I was thinking you hard-code in what the discount would be, percentage or fixed, and then adjust the price within the transforms using that… In a way that is easily adjustable moving forward, of course.

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Not a fan of the hard-coded values, wen’t in another direction. Posting solution next

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My goal were to change the title of a product in the cart, when achieving certain discounts (but always when the product price = 0).

My solution for this, ended up being using the Cart Ajax Update endpoint, once registrering any discounts value on the line_item, from the /cart.json data, and setting my own line_item properties, with the discounts data. And then using those properties to adjust the titles.

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Sorry for any confusion, I did not mean to hard-code it directly into the theme code itself, but utilizing some sort of Theme Setting or metafield value that you pull in so that it could be remotely configured in a sense.

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