Adding & Modifying a Coupon
When adding or modifying a coupon you are
presented with the same fields and options.
Coupon Details
Coupon Status: If a coupon is active it can be used to
apply a discount to an order. If it is inactive it cannot
be used.
Coupon Type: There are 3 types of coupon:
•
Standard Coupon
•
Solo Coupon
•
Auto Discount
A Standard Coupon code can be entered manually
by customers at the confirm order page. A Solo
Coupon is the same as a standard coupon except
that it cannot be used with any other standard or
solo coupon on the same order. An Auto Discount is
applied automatically to any order as long as the
usage restrictions specified allow it. Auto discounts
are applied even if a solo coupon is used on the
same order.
Coupon Code: This is the code that the customer has
to enter to apply the discount. Coupon codes can be
entered on the confirm order page of the checkout
process. If the coupon type is Auto Discount then the
coupon code is only used for
referencing/identification purposes.
Coupon Description: This is for description text for
the coupon/discount.
Value: Enter the amount you would like this coupon
to discount. You can specify a price amount or
percentage with the dropdown next to it.
Multi-Buy Qty: To batch sell a number of products at
a special price you must specify the price or discount
percentage above and enter the batch qty here and
then select the categories below to specify applicable
products. Leave this at 0 for a standard discount.
Usage Restrictions
These options allow you to put restrictions on your
coupons so they can only be used if a specified
criteria is met.
No. of Uses: If number of uses is set to Once only
this coupon will be set to inactive when it is used on
an order. If it is set to no limit the coupon can be
used an infinite amount of times.
Start Date: The coupon can only be used on or after
this data.
End Date: The coupon will expire on this date and
customers will no longer be able to use it to apply a
discount.
Minimum Spend: A minimum spend value can be
set so the coupon will only apply a discount on
orders over a certain amount.
Categories: Coupon will only be applied if the order
contains products from the selected categories. Use
this if you are running a promotion on particular
product categories. If no categories are selected the
coupon can be used on any order no matter what
products are ordered.
If any products in an order are in coupon specified
categories then it will apply the discount to the order
as long as the combined cost of those products is
greater than the discount. Eg. if the coupon is 10.00
and you have 1 or more products ordered from
coupon specified categories totaling more than 10.00
it will apply 10.00 discount to order.
Alternatively if you wanted 10.00 off each product on
the order you would need to set the discount value
on the products themselves by editing the products.
Note products can be batch edited to quickly
apply/remove discounts across many products at
once.
User Groups: Use this if you want to limit the
coupons use to a select group of users. If you
“Everyone” is selected then anybody can use the
coupon. If you select “Registered Users“ then only
registered users who are logged in will be able to
avail of this coupon. You can also setup custom user
groups and only allow specific users to use the
coupon.
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