Coupons - How to set up a transaction coupon

Modified on Tue, 14 May at 4:30 PM

Use a coupon to take 10% off a transaction having a new movie purchase. You can create variations of this sale to discount a transaction 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	Transaction
Discount Type	Percentage
Discount Amount	10
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

Items

Add the quantity buy. For the sale to apply when one eligible item is bought, the buy quantity should be 1.

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

Add Buy items that the coupon will apply to. For the discount to apply if the item is a new movie, add the items with the corresponding attributes.

Example: items (added by attribute)

Note: you could use different item criteria to change the eligible items, for example adding some specific items by UPC.

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).