Coupon Codes
Upclick gives you the ability to create and manage coupon codes for your products in order to support your marketing needs. You can create coupon codes with specific discounts as an alternative to overriding a price using Pricing Models.
To every product created in your account you can assign one or more coupon codes.
To do this, you will have to define the coupon name, the discount and also the activation and expiration dates. You can also specify if the coupon can be cummulated with other coupons or not (exclusive) and provide a description that will be displayed to the customer when the coupon is applied.
Note that the discount can be defined as % or as flat amount, per currency.
The next step would be to assign products to your coupon:
The coupon can be defined as "Individual" (you manually select to which product or products it applies), "Global" (it will be applied to all your existing and future products) or "Product Group" (in which case it will be applied to all the products assigned to that product group).
Once the coupon code is created, all you need to do is to create a checkout link.
To use the coupon as an on-the-fly discount, you need to pass it in the checkout URL. Simply use the 'cp' parameter and the shopping cart price will be adjusted with the related discount. This minimizes your effort when price optimization or discounted prices are required for your business. Your checkout link:
To use your coupon, only add &cp='Coupon Name' at the end of you checkout link.
In this example, my coupon name is "promo" so i added &cp=promo at the end of my checkout link.
Another way of using the coupon code is to distribute it to your customer and display in the checkout a field where the customer can input his coupon. In order to do this, instead of passing the 'cp' parameter in the checkout URL, you will have to use a different parameter: 'cf'. Simply use the 'cf=1' in your checkout link and the cart will display the coupon field. Your checkout link:
Your cart:
IMPORTANT: You can only use the coupon code for the main product of the cart. Using a coupon code for cross-sell products will not work.
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