Coupons - How to set up a BOGO coupon

Modified on Fri, 01 Mar 2024 at 03:44 PM

Use a coupon to create a buy one, get one free sale. You can create variations of this sale to buy an item, get an item(s) at a discount by using different discount amounts and item details.

Create a coupon in the promotion of your choice.

Coupon Settings

Field	Value
Coupon Code	Choose the coupon code
Coupon Name	Choose the name of the coupon (this is customer facing and will be displayed at checkout)
Coupon Description	Choose the coupon description (this is customer facing and will be displayed at checkout)
Coupon Type	BOGO
Discount Type	Percentage
Discount Amount	100
Seller / Manufacturer	Choose seller if this is an internal coupon or manufacturer if it is external
Taxable	Check to charge tax on the discounted amount
Autoapply	Check to make the coupon apply automatically, don't check for the coupon to be manually applied

Example: coupon settings

Note: the discount being 100% will make the discounted item(s) free. You could put different amounts here to change the discount, for example 50% or 75% off. You could also change the coupon type for the discounted item to be dollars off or a fixed sale price instead.

Items

Add the quantity buy and quantity get. For a buy one get one free sale, the buy and get quantity should both be 1.

Field	Description
Quantity Buy	How many eligible items the customer needs to purchase for the coupon to apply
Quantity Get	How many eligible items will be discounted

Add Buy and Get items that the coupon will apply to.

Example: items (added by attribute)

Note: the quantity buy and quantity get being 1 will make the sale "buy one, get one." You could put different quantities here to change the sale, for example "buy two, get one," or "buy three, get three."

Bottom of Form Settings

Choose the store group and set the start and end dates for when the coupon will be available.

Field	Value
Stores	The store group where the coupon will be eligible
Start / End Date	The time frame the coupon will be available

Note: the store group will depend on whether the sale is instore only, online only, or both instore and online. Choose the corresponding store group for either stores, the webstore, or both (all).