Discount Coupon Guide?!

Sounds like you have Admin Profiles installed and that this page has not been defined for your access ...

OK, I feel really stupid. I added a module for admin profiles. I thought because I was the admin, everything would stay the same. But my clearance was changed as to not allow me access to 3 module pages that I had installed but did give me access to everything else. Not sure why, I think it just reset to that when I installed the module. But thank you for having me check there. I should have thought of that on my own, but thank you for reminding me.

You are most welcome ... thanks for the update that you were able to fix the Admin Profiles permissions to get the proper security access to this section of code pages ... :smile:

Thanks Ajeh, it worked. I created the coupon but didn't see it until I accesed modules > order totals > ot_shipping > edit and I set the Provide free shipping for orders over the set amount option to equal the amount of the coupon. Now it works beautifully just like any known brand e-store :D

Thanks for the update on how you got this working for you ... :smile:

Hi everyone :smile:

I am currently using version v1.3.9f.

As a promotional aspect to my site I offer discount coupons as prizes for a monthly competition. Is there any way I can offer a £10 discount coupon which the customer does not have to use in one transaction?

I would like somehow to be able to offer the voucher, and if say the customer used £4 of that voucher the remaining £6 would still be redeemable at a later date.

I apologise if this question has already been answered, I have read through all of these posts and the FAQ but am not really getting very far in the process.

Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much for taking the time to read my post :smile:

Discount Coupons are for a specific Amount or Percentage or Free Shipping ...

Discount Coupons are setup to then be used by a number of times per Discount Coupon, or unlimited, and a number of times per customer, or unlimited, and then for a date range ...

There isn't a setting to give a $10.00 Discount Coupon where it can be used like a balance ...

Gift Certificates, on the other hand, are a balance, as they are "cash" and never expire ...

However, Gift Certificates have a limit of being for a specific customer and then can be used on an order in total or in part and can also be sent in total or in part to another person ...

NOTE: While Discount Coupons can expire ... Gift Certificates never expire ...

Thank you so much Ajeh - I really appreciate your reply :smile:

Guess I've been looking for something that can't be done, so at least now I can just forget the idea :D

Thanks again :clap:

I am using version 1.3.8a

I have never been able to create a coupon. The module is installed. But the top of that page appears to contain an error message and no option to edit or create.

I tried uninstalling the module and reinstalling. The problem has existed for a long time. We did several upgrades thinking it would go away but this particular items remains.

The "error" reads
1054 Unknown column 'coupon_zone_restriction' in 'field list'
in:
[select coupon_id, coupon_code, coupon_amount, coupon_type, coupon_start_date,coupon_expire_date,uses_per_user,uses_per_coupon,restrict_to_products, restrict_to_categories, date_created,date_modified, coupon_active, coupon_zone_restriction from zen_coupons where coupon_active='Y' and coupon_type != 'G' limit 0, 5]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields

So that gives me the impression that at some point a coupon was attempted and failed but now there appears to be no way to fix it or move on to create a new one.

NOTE: that you are using a very old version of Zen Cart that has since been updated with all of the Known Bug Fixes from:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82619

and Security Patches and Updates:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131115

and more in the current version of Zen Cart (v1.3.9h) from our Home page ...

Was this a Clean install of v1.3.8 or an Upgrade?

What do you see in the Tools ... Server Info ... on the Zen Cart version information and Database Patch list ...

i have created a coupon code that discounts an order 100% for my clerks to use when someone places a special order at our brick and mortar store. since they will take payment through our POS, i don't want to have to process a credit card. i've tested the coupon in cc test mode, but wonder when i go live will a $0 transaction be processed through my credit card company? is there a way to not have to put in a cc# to process a 100% discount coupon?

Using Zen Cart 1.3.8a

I was going to send out coupon via email in Zen Cart and was wondering - If someone sends back an email asking to be removed from further email ads, how do I set the customer to not receive future email ads?

I was going to send to "All Customers". Not sure what the other selections mean?

Also - what does this mean?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_user_has_gv_balance() in /www/admin/customers.php on line 1189

Thanks!

charliea:

what does this mean?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_user_has_gv_balance() in /www/admin/customers.php on line 1189

Thanks!
It means your /admin/includes/functions/general.php file is out of date.

Hey guys and girls - I got the following email from the owner of a zencart shop I manage.

Would love some advice ...:blink:

"Hey there...

Interested in your thoughts about how a massive promotion with another retail chain might work. They want to run a promo whereby customer gets $10 voucher for [the store] and they get given a code. They have two months to redeem it.

Question is: is it possible to create unlimited (say 135,000-ish) unique codes for the promotion or would it need to be ONE code. If the latter, then pretty much anyone who finds out about the code could use it so not sure if that’s good.

Your thoughts appreciated! "

There is nothing built into Zen Cart to automatically generate multiple Discount Coupons ... however, this could always be built ...

When doing 135,000 Discount Coupons ... does it really matter "who" the 135,000 users are for it?

If you set up a Discount Coupon and set it as:

Uses per Coupon 135000

Uses per Customer 1

now the Discount Coupon can only be used once per customer account for 135,000 people ...

Trying to make 135000 unique Discount Coupons could be done but it does become rather unyielding to manage if you don't really have a purpose for these to be unique ... such as 135000/20 or 6750 pages of Discount Coupons ...

Where if you used 1 Discount Coupon Code, the Report would give you counts for it ... vs trying to look at the 135000 individual Discount Coupons to see who used it ...

I have scanned every post in this thread and did not see (doesn't mean it isn't there) an answer to my question. If someone doesn't use all of the money in a gift certificate is the balance displayed somewhere so they know when ever they come to the store what that balance is?

A Gift Certificate will show the balance in:
Shopping Cart Sidebox
GV FAQs
My Account
Checkout Payment

when the customer is logged in ...

In the Admin it will show in the Customer ... Customer ... in the balance listing ...

Hi all, I was wondering if there was a way to apply a discount voucher if a certain number of items are purchased instead of a certain value?

I have a discount coupon set up but the link to redeem it only shows in the Info area on the left sidebar of the checkout page. This is a vvery small link and seems it would be easily missed by the customer. I there any way to put a coupon redemption box into the checkout form so people won't have to go looking for this?

There is already a Discount Coupon input box on the checkout_payment page of the checkout ...