Discount Coupon

[valarcher]

Does osCommerce support discount coupons? For instance, on this normal shopping page:

 

http://juicers.livingright.com/item153.sam...cer-gb9001.html

 

you enter your email to get a discount coupon code

 

then you receive this reply by email

 

Samson 6 in 1 Juicer GB-9001 - $214.00

Click here to order:

http://www.livingright.com/addshop.php?itemid=153

Use Coupon Code: samson

 

then you click on that link in the email, and it takes you here

 

http://www.livingright.com/viewcart.php

 

and you enter "samson" in the coupon code box, click Update

 

and it instantly shows the discount of $25 off, so the shop.cart checks out at $214 for the item, instead of $239.

 

I need this feature because suppliers have MAP rules (minimum advertized price)

 

thank you - Val

[Pastapuck]

I am very interested as well!

[valarcher]

Please can someone answer this? I'd like to download osC and start using it, but I can't do so if it does not handle discount coupons. This is a must-have feature for me.

 

Thank you! - Val

[241]

there are contributions available in the contributions area for discount coupons or vouchers

[Guest]

Hi there,

 

This is suitable for small to medium sites as it is a manual process.

 

There are some contributions that cover coupons and credit vouchers.

The down side is that they involve rewriting half your php files and you need an IQ of 240 to install them.

 

I am no expert, but have a very simple method by which I issue discounts to my customers in the form of e-vouchers.

 

As an example click on the following link or copy it into your browser and you will see a sample e-voucher that will add a credit of ?2.50 to your account:

 

http://www.proteinsdirect.co.uk/shop/produ...products_id=230

 

How it works on my site : www.proteinsdirect.co.uk

 

For every ?1 that a customer spends on my web-site they receive 1 PDL point (manually recorded)

Once they have 50 points they receive an email with a code specific to themselves such as the one above but it includes their name where it says "Your Name Here"

 

How to do it:

 

Add a product to the catalogue, for the example above call it "Your Name Here" ?2.50 e-voucher

Disable it, i.e. make sure the little red button is red and not green as you do not want it visible in the shop

Give it a quantity of 1 so that can only be used once by the customer

When you click on the product in the Admin section make a note of the code in your browser, for the example above on my site it is:

 

http://proteinsdirect.co.uk/shop/admin/cat...?cPath=&pID=230

 

The code you need to email your customer then becomes:

 

http://www.proteinsdirect.co.uk/shop/produ...products_id=230

 

And hey presto they have a ?2.50 e-voucher that credits their account with ?2.50 and can only be used once and is invisble to all other users

 

You could easily set up an automated email response so that once a customer enters an email address or creates an account the e-voucher code is sent out in the automated welcome email.

 

The upside of this method is that it is very simple and involves no changes to the oscommerce php files.

The down side is that it is a semi-manual process and not really suitable with very large sites.

I currently have in excess of 1000 customers and it works ok.

 

Any questions send me an email to [email protected]

 

Hope it helps, if not, let me know if you find a better solution that doesn't involve rewriting half your php files.

 

psh

 

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