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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This feature is considered beta and should be tested with your setup before going live with a promotion. |
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
There are two type of Auto Apply Coupons that can be configured, the first is a subtotal based coupon, this means that when the customer hits the required subtotal the coupon will be applied to the cart automatically. Below is an example configuration of this type of auto apply coupon.
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You can also batch delete coupons (including one-time use codes). At the bottom of the coupon list you can enter the coupon codes that you want to delete and then click the delete codes button.
Understanding Coupon Usage in the Checkout
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Please note that the coupon entry field will only appear in the checkout once one or more active (non-expired) coupons exist in the account. |
After you have configured your first coupon the default behavior of UltraCart is to display a coupon entry field on the checkout. The screen shot below shows the coupon entry field on the regular checkout.
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Hide Coupon Entry on Checkout
Some merchants only want to allow coupons to be used when they are part of a buy link that they send out on a marketing email. If you want to suppress the display of the coupon entry field on your checkout you can enable that setting on the coupon list as shown below.
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