Create Automatic Discounts in AwoCoupon
This is a guide to setting a coupon to be automatically applied to customers shopping cart, providing the customer meets the coupon criteria (i.e. minimum spend etc. ).
In order to create automatic discounts you need AwoCoupon Pro 2.1.1 or higher.
Note, automatic discounts are not available in AwoCoupon 1.
Step 1
Go to AwoCoupon -> New coupon and create the discount you wish to give to the customer. In this example, I create a coupon that gives 10% discount to the first 100 customers who order.
Step 2
In the coupon list screen, select 'Automatic Discounts'
Step 3
Select new to add the automatic discount to the list. In the coupon field, start typing the name of the coupon. In my example, I typed 7g, and automatically a dropdown with coupon codes that start with 7g appear. I select the coupon
code and make sure it is published then save.
Finished
That is it, your automatic discount coupon code should now show on the list.
If you look at the screen above, notice I have added 3 automatic discounts where 1 is disabled, so only 2 are active. The order in which they are placed is very important, because the customer will receive automatic discounts based on the order.
If for example you set the maximu number of automatic discounts to be processed to 2, and you have 5 active automatic discounts, the first 2 the customer is eligible for will be processed. The 'Ordering'
field shows coupons priority in the processing queue and each coupon is checked in this sequence to see if the customer qualifies for any discounts. If yes, the customer receives the discount and no other coupons are processed. In
this example, the order of checking each coupon code is 7G5t6RKQf92L and then sLxtjfFJx5k.
One final note, if using Virtuemart 2, you will need to go to AwoCoupon -> Dashboard and make sure that the VMPayment plugin is enabled. If it is not, automatic discounts will not work.
Comments (24)
Regards
Yes you can. You can create coupons that are specific to product categories and specific to shopper groups. And any coupon you can create you can add to the automatic coupon list.
Is there any way to bulk import my coupon codes into the Automatic Discounts section? I have 1529 and inputting manually is taking a while :)
Thanks,
Craig A
Is it possible to have multiple discount for different categories with the same coupon?
ex. category 1 30% category2 40% ...
Coupon A: discount of 30% for category 1
Coupon B: discount of 40% for category 2
Coupon C: combination coupon where you add coupons A and B and sett process type to all that apply
Then use coupon C.
Thank you ^^
You can create a coupon that is valid for 30 days, but not from the point of first use. You can set the start date when creating the coupon. Or if you are selling it as a gift certificate, the start date starts on the date of purchase.
I have created 3 automatic coupons and I am happy to say that they do work. However, the discount will only show up in the cart if the customer is logged in. Is there any way to have the discount show up when they have not logged in?
I have theirs birthdays when they register to my site.
Thanks,
Luca
https://awodev.com/blog/aworewards-birthday-promotion
You can disable multiple coupons in awocoupon->configuration
Is it possible to get an automatic discount when someone puts in a second related product in the cart?
So when item A is added, no discount. When item A' is added too, the automatic discount is there.
When one of the two items is removed from the cart, the automatic discount disppears.
If this can be done (i hope so.... ;-)), is it possible to set this up for let's say 300 items where each item has only one related item and the automatic discount works only for each specific pair?
So A and B' does not give you the auto discount
A and A' does give you the auto discount
B and B' also gives the auto discount
Kind regards,
Maurice
The automatic system is just the engine which constantly checks to see if there are qualifying discounts in the cart, based on the coupons added to the automatic discount section. So what you are really asking is is it possible to create a specific type of coupon.
From what you have described, it seems like this is a buy x get y coupon. So you could create a buy x get y coupon where you set the discount,
Buy X
Number: 1
Product: Select product A
Get Y
Number: 1
Product: Select product A'
Then add it to automatic discounts and if qualified products are in the cart, it will discount it.
Note if you have multiple coupons in the automatic discount section, it runs the first it finds, so order is important.
Regards
Seyi
Yes!!! You did it again! Fantastic, this is so awesome and exactly what I needed.
Thank you very, very much for this excellent 'everybody-should-have-this' component...
Kind regards,
Maurice
Automatic discounts are just coupons you created in AwoCoupon that are automatically run without user input. You would just need to create a coupon code that is specific to the categories you want and then add that to the automatic discount list.
actually i figured it out last night and got it worked out
tested it afterwards and it seems to work just fine