coupon restrictions

how do i set this up ? i only want a discount coupon to be effective for two categorys. how do i restrict the categories

Gift Certificate/Coupons -> Coupon Admin -> Restrictions.

Good luck,
Scott

Set the Restrictions to:
Top Deny
Cat 1 Allow
Cat 2 Allow

ah found it now ! i thought it was meant to be part of the menu but it appears as an option once you create the coupon. thx guys ive now set it to allow the two categories and set the products to top deny. but its including all the products at the same discount rate - do i have to go in and deny them all individually ?

When you say it is including all the products at the same discount rate ... can you be more specific?

What are you setting and what is it doing?

Also, what version of Zen Cart are you running?

version
Zen Cart 1.3.0.1

cat1 allow
cat2 allow

i also hit "add" for top deny but nothing showing just the two categories

all products on the order have the discount applied even if they arent in cat 1 or 2

Note: we are on v1.3.7 ...

I don't know off the top of my head the bugs and security issues in v1.3.0.1 but a lot of fixes were made since then related to coupons ...

I would seriously upgrade your site and then start fixing, if need be, the coupons ... I think you will find the errors are all gone once you upgrade ...

I have the 1.3.8 version and my coupon admin is still not working properly when I add restrictions to the coupon. When the customer tries to use the coupon ( with restrictions) then the page just reloads it doesn't go on to finish the checkout and it doesn't recognize the coupon.

I have several coupons out for the holidays.. Please help...:D :ohmy:

Could you list how you have your Discount Coupon setup? It could be a configuration issue ...

What restrictions have you set?

I would also check the Known Bugfixes as there are several related fixes:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82619

things specific to Discount Coupons or master_categories_id can affect these ...

I am having a similar issue. I can set up a coupon, but if I add one restriction it boots everything else out and gives an error when using the code that no products in the cart qualify.

The only way I found around it last time was to add every single product as "Allow" and the 5 I didn't want as "Deny". Problem is I have 50 categories so it took me a while.

At first I just tried to say Top - Allow, and then Deny for the 5 I didn't want. What am I missing? Is this a bug?

Have you applied the Known Bug Fixes to v1.3.8?
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82619

As far i can see , Coupon admin in ZenCart work in two way.. Either u have to deny top category then allow ur selected category(if u want to set restrcion base on category.)...or set only allow category u want.... in both case it will work..

for those who want to set coupon for specific Products then just follow these steps.. 1st at category resction set Top to Deny... and then in Products Resction allow ur selected Products... Thats will do.

Base on my Zen cart version, its working ... test few time to make sure its working...

:smile:

Thanks for the update that this is working for you ... :smile:

This is the definitive fix for the coupons not working properly -> http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=791338&postcount=37

(A particularly vexing problem, but easily solved. Thanks, zen-cart team!)

I have done the bug fix as listed right above for the coupon codes and NONE of my coupons are now working. Restricted or not.

Let me back up and layout what happened.

The owner of the site I manage decided to go out on her own and hire a contract place to do some site upgrades/installs as I was unavailable for a short time. I come back to tons of emails about things not working. Basically they created a new site and separated our Zen away from the core site. They copied everything over from the old site to the new one, then installed Simple SEO URL's. Now the coupons do not work.

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

Current Version of ZenCart 1.3.8a