Generating multiple Gift Certificates to hand out?

[danguyf]

I would like to print up a batch of gift certificates to hand out at a convention. Is there an easier way to generate 40 gift certificate codes than to email one to myself fourty times?

Thank you.

[danguyf]

Or better yet, a batch of unique one-use discount codes (since they don't have to have the redeemed value set).

[DrByte]

Why not just use one single coupon, say call it "CONFERENCE1" or something?
It can be set to "use once per customer" and even limit it to say 50 uses total, and you can even expire it so it can't be used say after 60 days ... etc.

And if you enable the built-in basic referral tracking, you'll know which customers come to you from the conference because it stores the coupon code as the referral source.

[danguyf]

Because, absent a shipping address or form of payment, it would be trivially simply for one rotten customer to make five different accounts.

Or one bad egg could post the single discount code online, robbing the other 39 people of their discount.

What I need is to be able to generate X number of unique discount codes for $Y each on demand.

[Ajeh]

This is not part of Zen Cart but it could be written ...

There is a fixed peice of code to generate Discount Coupons ...

You just need to toss that in a loop to generate XX number at the push of a button ...

While not a feature of Zen Cart, at this time, it is not a difficult feature to customize ...

Got your coder's hat on?

[Ajeh]

NOTE: there is a copy button on the Discount Coupons where you can just give it a new name/code and all other info is reproduced for you ...

This will save a couple of steps of setting:
1 per customer
1 per coupon
coupon amount

that would be the logic to build an auto builder for the generation of coupon groups but add in the auto generator on the coupon code or build into the loop to increment a given coupon code such as:
conference1

and the generator would create:
conference1-1
conference1-2
conference1-3

or make:
conference1-001
conference1-002
conference1-003

for sorting purposes ...

[BrightNephew]

Has anybody seen a development of this function? Anybody want to bid?
Thanks!

[paulaasple]

I am also looking for this feature but I'm a newbie so wouldn't know how to begin coding myself. Any one else need this?