title: Magento - Shopping Cart Price Rules
body: <p>I can't seem to find this information on the Magento site (v 1.7.0.2 (stable)) and need clarification.  I've recently taken over the maintenance of a Magento-based shopping site.  They have shopping cart price rules set in the promotions that don't seem to be applying correctly.  </p>
  
  <p>I've seemed to narrow down the issue to configurable/simple products.</p>
  
  <p>Here is an example of one of the pricing rules currently set:
  Pricing rule - 30% any product in certain categories
  Conditions - None Set
  Actions - If ANY  of these conditions are TRUE : Category  is one of  xxx, xxx, xxx </p>
  
  <p>The problem seems to be that the company is using configurable products and when they initially create the configuarable product they place all the correct categories on it but when they create the associated simple products, they don't place any categories on the simple products.  </p>
  
  <p>My question, long way around to it, is shouldn't the simple product inherit the categories of their parent configurable product?  Is this something that can be easily remedied?  </p>
  
  <p>They have about 6000 products I would have to go back add the correct categories to if I have to add them to the simple product as well.</p>
  
  <p>I hope that was clear enough.  Thanks everyone!</p>