coupons expired not showing inactive

[Ajeh]

There you go ... that is a good summary ... glad you have a better understanding of this now and so does everyone else ... thanks!

[barco57]

see what happens I keep typing and missing your posts
Thank to you guys for the thorough explanation. I suppose what was confusing was that all options are still available for the inactive coupons (email, edit, delete...etc)

[Ajeh]

I will have to look into that for a future release to protect you from yourself ...

[barco57]

protect me from myself! I think you should be trying to figure out how to protect yourself from all my typing. Now that I got myself a laptop I can ask questions anytime the mood strikes me So off I go to come up with some more

[s_mack]

Sorry to drudge this up... but I am confused.

I get what you are saying, with how it is SUPPOSED to work... but I'm confused with what actually happens.

See... I have NEVER "deleted" a coupon - never. Never hit that button once. Yet, I have 12 "inactive" coupons.

I also have 22 "active" coupons - most of which are expired and/or fully used.

So when does it automatically move them to inactive?

- Steven

[s_mack]

Also - entering in an "inactive" coupon code into the discount_coupon page still shows all the info for that coupon. What exactly is the difference between active and inactive then?


To me, and I think others would agree, "inactive" should be any coupon that can't currently be used - either because the admin set it to inactive, or it has expired. I also suggest that any coupon should be able to be active again simply by changing the dates and/or setting its status back to "active".

Just suggestions.

- Steven

[neparker]

We have been using coupon codes fine, but now we want to delete or clean up some of our super old ones so we can use them again - the same name for the code. Is this possible?

Simply deleting them doesn't really remove them.

[Ajeh]

You would need to do this in phpMyAdmin and look at the table:
coupons

You will find the Discount Coupons from the:
coupon_code

and you will see them marked as:
coupon_active

where N is the ones that are marked "deleted" or "expired" ...

[Ajeh]

NOTE: if you are deleting them in phpMyAdmin then you need to remove them from the:
coupons_description
coupon_restrict

before you do this ...

If you change the coupon_active to Y you can then change them via the Zen Cart Admin ...

[BlessIsaacola]

Ajeh,

I tried today to delete a coupon on the Admin side and it basically just changed the status to inactive instead of deleting it from the database. Any ideas?

Thanks!