Coupons

[David M. Graham]

When in NEED.....Come to the Forum, Right?

I want to offer a customer a $10 OFF coupon. I have set up the coupon in my Admin and I know I can email the offer to my customer, BUT how does the customer redeem the coupon during final checkout?

Please provide instructions for me - purchase is within hours away!

Terri

Terri,

Make sure the ot_coupon module is on in the admin -> Modules -> Order Total menu.  Configure it to taste.  That should cause a box to appear on the payment page, and entry of the coupon code in that box should apply your coupon amount and reduce the total transaction.

David

[CypherUK]

There should be a box in which to enter the coupon code during checkout? - I think it's on the payments screen.

[terierni]

When in NEED.....Come to the Forum, Right?

I want to offer a customer a $10 OFF coupon. I have set up the coupon in my Admin and I know I can email the offer to my customer, BUT how does the customer redeem the coupon during final checkout?

Please provide instructions for me - purchase is within hours away!

Terri

[David M. Graham]

Another thing to remember is that these can be set in the Order Total  Discount Coupon module. 

This gets a bit confusing because of the number of conflicting code modifications done here.  One reason we are redesigning the entire system.

David

[David M. Graham]

I want to offer percentage discounts to certain customers but I don't want it to include shipping and taxes.  The input form just allows you to offer an amount or percentage and it applies it to the entire invoice total.  How can I offer like a 10% discount on product purchases only?

Great question and one that confuses intermediate and newbie alike!

The key to this lies in the Order Total system.  By using the Sort Order of the modules, you determine where an order total module applies its calculations.  If the coupon module is above the shipping module (ie - has a LOWER sort order) , then the discount granted by the coupon should not apply to shipping.

Also, on the input form, where it indicates the products or categories to be included, when I click on that it brings up my Admin Front Page.  How do I indicate that the coupon is only for a certain category?

This would appear to be a session issue, if not a missing file.  Sounds like you need a patch.  The quick answer here is to get the category id numbers before creating the coupon and manually enter them in the text input box provided.  Multiple categories can be separated by commas.   The category ID can be found in the non-obscured URL of a normal CRE Loaded site.  Look in the URL for something like cID=<some number>.  That is the category ID.

Also,  If I want to give Free Shipping to any customer with purchases over $100, How do I do that?

Thanks so much for your help.

Diana Hatch

This requires some configuration in Admin -> Configuration -> Shipping as well as your shipping module.  So, it varies depending on what shipping module you are using. 

[ppafcb]

I want to offer percentage discounts to certain customers but I don't want it to include shipping and taxes.  The input form just allows you to offer an amount or percentage and it applies it to the entire invoice total.  How can I offer like a 10% discount on product purchases only?
Also, on the input form, where it indicates the products or categories to be included, when I click on that it brings up my Admin Front Page.  How do I indicate that the coupon is only for a certain category?
Also,  If I want to give Free Shipping to any customer with purchases over $100, How do I do that?
Thanks so much for your help.

Diana Hatch