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Coupons

Coupons allow merchants to offer discounts on various items or costs related to an order. Once you have created your coupon, merchants can display the coupon code on their web site (usually near the Buy Now button) that invites the customer to enter the code during the purchase process (at checkout). You can also generate Campaigns within UltraCart (covered later) which will generate random coupon codes so they can be used only by a single Email recipient (once).

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In addition to the suppression configuration field listed above there is another on located in the first tab of the legacy screen branding themes editor, which allows for selective suppression of the coupon field based upon the screen branding theme.

Also note that even with the coupon suppression enabled, coupon codes can be applied to a purchase via inclusion to a buy link or buy form (see: " Parameters that can be passed to UCEditor")

Auto Apply Coupons 

You can automatically apply coupons to a customer's order to provide them discounts. This feature makes it easy to trigger promotional discounts without requiring the customer to enter a code. Please note that customer only receives one level of coupons. A level can have more than one coupon added by separating multiple coupon codes with commas. 

Recommended Coupon Types: 

  • Tiered percent off subtotal
  • Tiered dollar off subtotal

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The coupon field will typically appear in the lower right portion of the checkout page:

Using a Coupon in a Marketing Campaign

This topic is covered in more detail in the email marketing section of our documentation, but the example below shows how to use a coupon in a marketing campaign so that each customer receives a unique one time user coupon code.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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