Coupon or discount
The difference between a coupon and a discount
is that a coupon will need a special code to be entered during
the checkout phase for it to be applicable. A discount however
will apply to all of your website visitors, as long as the conditions
you can set below are met. Coupons are especially useful therefore
for promotions in magazines or through other forms of advertising.
Coupon / Discount Effect
You can choose between Free Standard Shipping, Flat rate discount
or Percentage discount. You can set up more than one coupon or
discount at a time to have combinations of these.
A flat rate discount would be for instance "$20 off if you
spend over $150 on our store".
A percentage discount would be for instance "5% discount on
all our goods".
Working Name
You have to assign a name or phrase to the discount you create.
This text will also be shown to your website visitors to inform
them of the discounts available so it should be meaningful and
short. Examples of "Working Name" would be
"
Free Standard Shipping on orders of $35 or more"
"
10% discount if you buy 3 or more products from our store"
You can remove the text that appears on the store with this addition
in your includes.php file.
Coupon Code
If you are creating a coupon, you will need to assign a coupon
code. This is the code your website users will need to enter to
access the discount. For instance, if your coupon code is GH777733D
then in your magazine advertising you could put the following "Special
offer for readers of this magazine. Enter the code GH777733D during
checkout to receive a 5% discount".
Number Available
With some promotions you may want to limit the number available.
For instance
"
5% discount to the first 50 people who purchase".
If you do not want to limit the number available, just leave this
field blank.
Number Days Available
Allows you to set a time limit in days. If you do not want to
limit the time available, just leave this field blank.
Min
/ Max Purchase Amount (version 3.6.3)
This allows you to set minimum and maximum purchase limits for
discounts to apply and also the ability to include discounts and
coupons within a banded range that can be defined here. So for
example, spend between $50 and $100 products for a 5% discount
- spend between $100 and 150 for a 10% reduction etc.
...or you could have a simple set up like $25 off all orders over $100.
If you do not want to use this feature, just leave the fields blank.
Min
/ Max Quantity(version 3.6.3)
This allows you to set minimum and maximum limits for discounts
to apply and also the ability to include discounts and coupons
within a banded range that can be defined here. So for example,
buy between 5 and 10 products for a 5% discount - buy between 6
and 10 for a 7% reduction etc.
Also note that if your "banded" discounts have the same name they
will only be displayed once which can be advantageous. For instance the case
where
For every 11 products purchased, get one free.
Make sure the maximum quantity is greater than and not equal
to the minimum quantity.
If you do not want to use this feature, just leave the fields blank.
Repeat
every... (version 4.8.4)
This allows you to define how often the discount kicks in
In the example above the discount will take effect following the
second item purchased and won't be repeated until a further 10
items have been added to the cart ie. a minimum of purchase of
12 items. If you don't require any repetition and just want a flat
rate discount then set Repeat Every to 0.
Discount
Amount
The actual amount of the discount. For instance for a Percentage
discount of 20%, just enter 20 here. For a flat rate discount of
$15, just enter 15 here. Please note that for Free Standard Shipping,
this value is ignored.
Scope
You may want to have a discount of 5% if your customer buys 5
of a certain product. You may however want to offer a discount
of 5% if your customer buys 5 of any product on your website. Likewise
if you wanted to offer a discount of 5% if someone spends $50 or
more on one particular product, or you may want to offer a discount
of 5% if someone spends $50 or more on your website as a whole.
The "Scope" allows you to do both of these types of discount.
You would use the setting Applies storewide to product
totals for setting up a discount which applies to product
totals on total purchase on your store. Once you have set up
a discount of this type it is automatically in effect and you
need do no more.
Assign to cat’s for discounts on category totals allows
you to narrow down the effect of a discount to individual categories.
Now go to the categories admin page and you should see a column "Discounts" and
click on the "Assign" button.
Applies storewide but to individual products would
set up a discount that applies to totals of a particular product.
Now go to the products admin page and you should see a column "Discounts" and
click on the "Assign" button.
Assign to individual products / cats allows
you to narrow down the effect of a discount to an individual product
or category. Once you have created this type of discount, you can
then assign it to a particular product or category. To do this,
go to your products or categories admin pages and you will see
a column "Discounts" with a button.
NOTE:
If you set up a category with products from other categories using the additional
sections feature, it's not possible to apply a discount on this one new category.
Restrict
to certain countries
This setting only applies to "Free Standard Shipping".
It enables you to set free shipping only for orders within a particular
country. To set the countries to which free shipping applies, go
to your countries admin page and you will see a column "FSA" which
stands for "Free Shipping Applies". Only those countries
checked in your admin countries page will be eligible for free standard
shipping. Remember that a rule will have to be set up first in
your discount admin page
for this to apply.
Quantity
Pricing
In version 4.7.0 we introduced the option of quantity pricing.
This means you can adjust the price depending on the number of
items of a particular product purchased. To access this feature
you will need to click on the Quantity Pricing link
on your main admin page.
Check the box on the quantity pricing page if you want to show
a drop down menu of all product ids you have available when setting
up the price breaks. Leaving the box unchecked means that you will
have
to enter
the
product id manually. |
