We have a site that is having trouble with discounts. They have the site set to global discounts with category grouping.
Then they have the discount set at:
First level:
Min $50 Max $149.99
Discount %10
Based on total price of line item
Scope is global discount for all products, all groups
There is a basket with an item with price of $48.70 and another of $43.80. No discount shows. Both these are items are in the same two categories. If I change them to be in only the same one category, the discount still doesn't show.
They say that this setup worked before.
They also have a discount that is the same discount levels, but applied to 2809 products. This discount is assigned to an user group with no users to de-activate it.

I thought I remembered an issue in the past with category discounts, so I looked in the old forum. The setup it describes is the same as above
http://forums.ablecommer...p;hilit=discounts#p81973
Here is one example of a discount based on the order total -

Min. $100
Discount: 10%
Base Discount on "Total Price of Line Item"
Set Discount Scope to "Global"

If you want it to apply to the total of all products, then you need to make one additional change. From the Configure > Store > General page, change the DISCOUNT MODE to "Group by Category".

Please help! Thanks

Thanks for the answer! Did you have a minimum purchase amount for your discounts? If the qty x price itself meets the minimum, the discount gets applied, just not if the total of two products in the same category meet the minimum.
The discounts were already set to group by category
I did delete all the old discounts from the database.
The only discount that could be conflicting was the one set to allow by product, but that had been applied to a group where there were no users so that shouldn't have conflicted.