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Promotion Codes is an add on. More information can be found on the Straightsell website. |
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Creating Promotion Codes
Once enabled, promotion codes can be configured from Ecommerce > Promotions in the CMS .
Creating Promotion Codes
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and there will be a number of different promotion types you can configure.
Once configuration is complete, click Save at the bottom of the page.
- Title: The title of your
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- promotion code (this is for your internal reference only)
- Description: The description of
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- your promotion code (this is for your internal reference only)
Discount Type: There are five types of Promotion Codes, and they promotion code that can be configured as follows:
- Dollar amount off total order: Enter a whole number value to apply a dollar amount off of an order. this will apply a dollar amount discount to the total order excluding freight
- Discount value: the dollar amount value for the discount
- Applicable to order totals greater than: enter a dollar amount here if you only want the promotion code to be valid on orders over a certain amount, otherwise set to 0
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- Dollar amount off category or product: Enter a whole number value to this will apply a dollar amount discount off of a one specific category or one specific product.
- Discount value: the dollar amount value for the discount
- Applicable to order totals greater than: enter a dollar amount here if you only want the promotion code to be valid on orders over a certain amount, otherwise set to 0
- Applicable Type: Set to "Product" or "Category"
- Category: Select the category path you want the promotion code to apply to OR
- Product Code: Click "Search" and then select the product code you want the promotion code to apply to
- Percentage off total order excluding freight: Enter a whole number value to apply to a this will apply a percentage discount to the total order excluding its freight component.freight
- Discount value: the percentage value for the discount
- Applicable to order totals greater than: enter a dollar amount here if you only want the promotion code to be valid on orders over a certain amount, otherwise set to 0
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- Percentage off category or product excluding freight: Enter a value to this will apply a percentage discount off a of one specific category or one specific product.
- Discount value: the percentage value for the discount
- Applicable to order totals greater than: enter a dollar amount here if you only want the promotion code to be valid on orders over a certain amount, otherwise set to 0
- Applicable Type: Set to "Product" or "Category"
- Category: Select the category path you want the promotion code to apply to OR
- Product Code: Click "Search" and then select the product code you want the promotion code to apply to
- Set Price (ex tax) for a list of products: Enter this will allow you to define a set price for a list of Items and their specific prices.
Discount Value: The value of the discount should be entered as a whole number. This will represent either a dollar amount or percentage.
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- products
- Pricing for Product Codes: type the product code and prices as follows, each product code and price is listed on a separate line - PRODUCTCODE,PRICE
Activation and start and end dates: you can set a start date and end date for your promotion.
- Start Date: The start date of the Promotion Code. Note this is based on Adelaide, South Australian time (+9:30) which you may need to adjust for if you are in another state.
- End Date: The end date of the Promotion Code.
- Number of Codes Redeemed:
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- Will display the number of times
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Status
- the code has been used (note: this will not display for "Set Price" promotion type)
- Active: Check on to activate the
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- promotion code for the specified date range, if this is checked off the promotion code will be inactive
To generate one code that can be used multiple times follow the instructions below:
- Multiple Use Per Code:
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- See Manually specifying codes below for more information
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- Check this ON
- Promotion Generate Method: Set this to Manually specify codes
- Promotion Codes: enter the promotion code here, this is the code customers will use during checkout
To generate a number of codes that can only be used once each, follow the instructions below:
- Multiple Use Per Code: Check this OFF
- Promotion Generate Method:
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- Set this to Automatically generate codes: Enter a value for
- Number of Codes to Generate: enter the number of Promotion Codes you wish to generate
- Manually specify codes: Enter the value of the name of the Promotion Code you wish to create e.g. ‘SPRINGCLEANING’. This method is often used with ‘Multiple Use Per Code’.
Number of Codes to Generate: Specify how many Promotion Codes you wish to automatically generate if choosing the ‘Automatically generate codes’ method.
Promotion Codes: The list of generated Promotion Codes if using the ‘Automatically generate codes’ method.
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- promotion codes you would like to generate, when the setup is complete this number of unique, one time use only codes will be generated and these can be provided to customers
Automatic issuing of promotion codes: you can optionally set the promotion code to be issued automatically to all successful orders over a given amount, regardless of the generation method above these codes will all be unique, one time use only codes
- Automatically issue to successful orders:
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- The Promotion Code will appear on the order confirmation email a buyer will receive and they can then use it on their next order
- check on to enable automatic issuing of promotion codes
- Issue to orders over:
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- set a dollar amount threshold, order values under that threshold will not be issued promotion codes