Multiple use of coupon (until value runs out)

[Laszlo]

Hi All,

I have been using coupons as gift certificates and now it dawned on me that I might be doing the wrong thing.

My idea was that I set up a product representing the gift certificate with a certain price (20,50 etc), customer buys it and I email a discount coupon with that value to the gift recipient.

I of course quickly ran into the problem that gift recipients do not always spend the full value of the coupon at the first shop and want to use the remainder later. Is this doable with coupons? If so then how do I configure it?

I know there is a right way of doing gift certificates described in the tutorial, that is probably the best way to do this, but if it was doable with coupons I would like to know about it.

Thanks,

Laszlo