How to create a discount coupon for your eshopbox site
- 1. How to create a discount coupon
for your eshopbox site
Category: Store Promotion
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- 2. Welcome to Eshopbox Wiki
What will you learn here
What is a discount coupon
Why you should offer discounts at your site
How to create a discount coupon for your site
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What is a discount coupon
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- 4. What is a discount coupon
Discount coupons allow site owners to provide discounts on products
available for purchase at their eshopbox site
Discount coupons are typically configured with a coupon code
Coupon codes are manually entered at the time of payment in order to
receive the coupon's actual discount
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Why you should offer discounts
at your eshopbox site
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- 6. Why you should offer discounts at your site
Discount coupons are used for promotional purposes
Customers are price sensitive. They usually look for an option where they
can get discounted deals
Discounts are the best way to attract and encourage people to make a
purchase from your site
Discounts helps in generating repeat visits of a buyer at your site to find
out current available discounts
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How to create a discount
coupon for your eshopbox site
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- 8. How to create a discount coupon for your site
Step 1:
Log in to your eshopbox site admin panel with your login id and password
Click on ‘Discount coupons’ under ‘Promote’ tab
Promote tab
Discount coupons
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Step 2:
Click on ‘Add a Coupon’ button to start the creation process of discount
coupon
Create a discount coupon
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Step 3:
Start your discount creation process by giving a name to your coupon
This is only for your reference. It is not be visible at the site front
Give the name which you can relate with the discount offered
e.g. Summer discount, Diwali sale etc
You can write a name of maximum 40 characters
Name your discount
coupon
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Step 4:
Next, mention whether you’re going to offer this discount at your site with
immediate effect or later
Here you will get 2 options to choose:
Enable: If this discount coupon can be redeemed currently
Disable: If you just want to create a coupon and offer it later at your site
By default ‘Enable’ is selected
Choose from drop
down menu
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Step 5:
Select the type of discount you
want to offer by clicking on Select the
radio button
the radio buttons as shown
You can offer discount in rupees or in
percentage
Discount can be given on
products, purchase order or on
shipping price
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Step 5.1:
Select ‘Amount discounted from total
purchase’ if you want to offer a
discount on total price of the order.
This excludes shipping price
E.g. You want to offer a discount of Rs.
1000, if a buyer has made a total
purchase of more than Rs. 10000
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Step 5.2:
Select ‘Amount discounted from
the SRP of a product’ if you want
to offer a discount on individual
products
E.g. You want to offer a discount
of Rs. 1000 on Nokia E5 handsets
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Step 5.3:
Select ‘Percentage off on the total
purchase amount’ if you want to
offer a percentage discount on
total price of the order. It excludes
shipping price
E.g. You want to offer a discount of
10%, if a buyer has made a
purchase of more than Rs. 10000
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Step 5.4:
Select ‘Percentage off on the SRP
of a product’ if you want to offer
a percentage discount on
individual products
E.g. You want to offer a discount
of 10% on Nokia E5 & E7
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Step 5.5:
Select ‘Amount discounted from
total shipping price’ if you want
to offer a discount on total
shipping price
E.g. You want to offer a discount
of 100 on the shipping price
more than Rs. 800
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Step 5.6:
Select ‘Percentage off on the
total shipping price’ if you want
to offer a percentage discount on
total shipping price
E.g. You want to offer a discount
of 10% on the shipping price
more than Rs. 1000
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Step 5.7:
Select ‘Free Shipping’ if you
don’t want to charge any price
on shipping
E.g. You want to offer a free
shipping when a buyer has made
a purchase of more than Rs.
10000
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Step 6:
Now enter the value that is to be discounted
It is dependent on the discount type that you’ve chosen
E.g. If you’ve chosen discount type ‘Amount discounted from total
purchase’ then the text box will appear like below
Now if you want to offer Rs. 100 discount then enter 100 in the box
Value to be deducted
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Step 7:
You can put a condition to avail this discount on orders or shipment
E.g. If a minimum purchase order will be of Rs. 10000 then only a buyer
will get a discount of Rs. 100 on total order
In such case enter minimum value that a buyer must spend to avail this
discount like as per above example 10000 will be entered
If you leave this field blank that means there is no such restriction & the
discount can be redeemed irrespective of the total purchase amount
Minimum purchase
value
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Step 8:
When you want to provide a discount on products then you can specify a
minimum quantity that a customer must purchase to apply this coupon
code
E.g. If here you’ve mentioned 2 and this coupon applies to Samsung
LCD, then a buyer will be able to redeem this discount if he will buy at least
2 Samsung LCDs
If you will leave this field blank it means there is no such restriction & the
discount can be redeemed irrespective of the quantity purchased
Minimum purchase
2 quantity
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Step 9:
Now you can specify the date till this coupon is valid
After this expire date the coupon code will no longer be used to receive a
discount
E.g. Here I’ve mentioned the expire date 1-12-2011
If you will leave this field blank it means this discount coupon will never
expire
Choose the date from
the calendar
Chosen expire date
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Step 10:
You can restrict the use of the coupon code as per customer, overall usage
or both by mark the checkboxes
Select ‘Limit total number of use‘, if you want to restrict the overall use of a
coupon irrespective of the individual customer
E.g. If here you’ve mentioned the value 50, it means this code can be
redeemed or used 50 times. Now it can be used by 50 different people or
single person can use it 50 times in 50 different orders
Coupon can be used
50 times total
Mark the checkboxes that
you want to choose
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Step 10.1:
Select ‘Limit number of uses per customer‘, if you want to restrict the
individual customer to use the coupon code
E.g. If here you've mentioned the value 1, it means a customer can use this
code one time only
A customer can use
it one time
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Step 10.2:
If you want to opt both the options, you can do that as well
E.g. If here you’ve mentioned both, 50 for total use & 1 for per customer
then it means one customer can use it one time & at most 50 customers
can use it
If you will leave this field blank then it means this coupon code can be used
at any number of times
Coupon can be
used total 50
times
&
a customer can
use it 1 time only
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Step 11:
Now select the categories or products for which this coupon code will be
applicable
Choose ‘Select the categories’ if you want to apply this coupon on the basis
of categories
You can select multiple categories as well
Apply coupon based on
category
Selecting any category
enables all its products to
get eligible for this coupon
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Step 11.1:
Choose ‘Select the products’ if you want to apply this coupon to individual
products
Click on the link ‘Add product’ to start selecting the products which will be
eligible for this coupon
Apply coupon based on
products
Select the products
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Step 11.2:
Select the products by clicking on the check box against the product name
Now discount coupon will be applicable on the selected products only
Select a product page
Click on check box to
Select a product
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Step 11.3:
Now you can see all your selected products on which this coupon can be
applied
If you want to delete any of these products you can do it by clicking on
‘x’(cross) placed with the respective products
If you want to add more products, click on the link ‘Add another product’
Delete the
5 selected product
products
Select more
products
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Step 12:
Now click on ‘Save & Exit’ to complete your discount coupon creation
process placed on the top of the page
Click on ‘x’ (red color button) to discard your filled info. It means you want
to exit from the process without saving it
Save discount Cancel the
coupon filled info
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Step 13:
When you will click on ‘Save & Exit’ button, a coupon code is generated &
assigned to the discount coupon that you have created. A person will use
this code to redeem the applicable discount at the time of payment
You will be redirected to your existing discount coupon listing where you
can see your just created discount coupon on the top
Code assigned to your
discount coupon
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- 33. Good to know
Please review your filled info before saving
You can edit your discount coupon anytime later
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