There are many different promotion methods for an online store. The most effective methods are offering discount coupon codes on orders exceeding a defined value, setting discounts for certain products valid for a certain period of time, and even making discounts on wholesale bulk purchases. We will learn all the coupon and discount usages available in OpenCart.
In this chapter we shall learn:
Coupons are one of the most effective promotion types for an online store. These are special short texts which customers enter on the checkout page to get discounts.
For example, DISC100 could be a coupon code for a $100 discount, valid between the dates 01.08.2010 and 01.10.2010.
OpenCart supports defining several different types of coupons. Let's learn about them with examples.
Sample coupon code variants are:
Sample coupon code variants are:
Additionally, we can offer free shipping and combine it with a percentage or fixed amount based coupon:
Note that every coupon code is defined with a maximum usage value in OpenCart. For example, a $20 discount coupon which can be used maximum 50 times by customers. We can even limit the coupon usage per customer. For example, a coupon code which can be used only twice per customer, so for two orders only.
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