Coupon Codes

[Owen Drumm]

I am setting up a discount of £2.50 on some products using coupon codes which is available to all customers. In order for the customers to know the coupon code do I have to hand code the coupon code details into the product description of each product i.e "in order to gain your £2 discount on this item please enter xyz in the coupon code box"

[jont]

If the code is available to all then yes you will need to tell them somehow what the code is as it is normally only available to the informed few.

Another option may be to reduce the price accordingly and in the product description use something like !!<<h3>RSP £10.00 now only £8.50</h3>>!! to make a prominent notice of the reduction - you could even insert a GIF saying SAVE £2.50 etc... this way people don't need to mess with coupons and if they forget at check out you may have a manual adjustment / refunds to cope with.

This obviously means changing the prices back once you have finished the promotion

[Owen Drumm]

Just wondered if it would be possible to use a Customvar in the checkout?

I was thinking that if I created a Customvar and applied it to the specific products as the Coupon Code for that product would it be possible to incorporate that value in the coupon code box in the checkout or product page?

[Owen Drumm]

Works a treat. I created a Customvar called Couponcode and linked it to each product. I then put the following code <BR>CUSTOMVAR:COUPONCODE in Act_ShoppingCartXML.html after <TD WIDTH=90><SPAN CLASS="actxsmall">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODREF</SPAN>.

The only thing is that this way the customer does not enter a coupon code as it is already added

[Owen Drumm]

Funny thing happened. When I checked into this today it no longer works. Wierd. Anyone got any ideas?

[Nadeem]

Hi there

What the url for the shop which has this problem. Have you checked it today and is it working?

Kind Regards

[Owen Drumm]

I have removed the customvar from the shoppingcart template and am using the coupon codes as general discounts for every customer automatically entered without them having to put them in themselves.