Coupon Codes required to place an order

[Decker]

Does anybody know if you can make a coupon code required to place an
order. We are trying to make our clients order marketing with a
special coupon code and they never seem to enter the code to receive a
special discount.

Thanks,
Dave

[Igor Vorobeychik]

As far as I know there is no such thing , probably it is possible but
it is a bit wrong from the feature prospective, I do not know any
website that requier to put coupon to get a discount.
My firts question why not to discount it from the begining ?
What ideal situation to be able to show different prices for different
group of people ?
Or be able to give outomatic discount for all items in the cart to
particular group of people ?
Igor.

[Ioanna Wilde]

I've seen this done with other sites. A good example is loyalty rewards. So for example ebooks use this. I shop online at some stores and when I haven't been for a while I get an email with a code for extra savings. It's an incentive to increase frequency of purchases. If the prices are always low for everyone, there is no sense of urgency or reward.

I too would find this feature extremely useful from a marketing perspective.

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[Igor Vorobeychik]

so you are telling me that once you got a coupon by email and you go
to the site and do not use it they say we do not allow you to checkout
since you did not use a coupon ?

On Oct 22, 1:06 pm, Ioanna Wilde <ioa...@waysidecommunications.com>
wrote:

> I've seen this done with other sites. A good example is loyalty rewards. So for example ebooks use this. I shop online at some stores and when I haven't been for a while I get an email with a code for extra savings. It's an incentive to increase frequency of purchases. If the prices are always low for everyone, there is no sense of urgency or reward.
>
> I too would find this feature extremely useful from a marketing perspective.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 2010-10-22, at 10:01 AM, Igor Vorobeychik <vori1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > As far as I know there is no such thing , probably it is possible but
> > it is a bit wrong from the feature prospective, I do not know any
> > website that requier to put coupon to get a discount.
> > My firts question why not to discount it from the begining ?
> > What ideal situation to be able to show different prices for different
> > group of people ?
> > Or be able to give outomatic discount for all items in the cart to
> > particular group of people ?
> > Igor.
>
> > On Oct 22, 12:21 pm, Decker <ddec...@higherone.com> wrote:
> >> Does anybody know if you can make a coupon code required to place an
> >> order. We are trying to make our clients order marketing with a
> >> special coupon code and they never seem to enter the code to receive a
> >> special discount.
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dave
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[Michael Bova]

We put this in as a feature request, Ionna. Not requiring user to enter the coupon code, but being able to issue one discount code that can be used repeatedly and not locked into the first user who applies it.

Michael

[Walter Van waard]

Hi,

The comment here is a bit deeper than normal. The problem xmpie as a software
supplier is getting or having and realising (lucky us) that the product has started out
as a backend tool for producing....the products being documents of fysical and digital nature. The upcoming and current view of customer relationships from a marketing perspective is that
the marketeer or OUR customers want to be in control of there processes. Xmpie understands
this is and is implementing more and more frontend tools for backend tweaking. One of them
being a schedule option..so via api that's still, you can create an interface so the marketeer can start his own email campaign for instance...

Still Xmpie has to start gaining momentum because others are creating amazing platforms
that have visual workflow generators that allow also for backend processes do be managed
by frontends...

So in this case, a marketeer would drag a coupon code tool and takes matters in his
own hand when in the process someone would have the option to use the code, but
also how he wants to respond to the customer that has used the code...And believe
me the tools are out there.

Had to urge to write this :-)
Walter

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[Ioanna Wilde]

Okay nevermind, I misunderstood what he¹s asking.
No it still lets you make the purchase, just not at a discount.

And yes that would be handy Michael.

Dave, just curious is your goal to track if the user came in through your
marketing?

Ioanna

[Michael Morgan]

My thought would be if you can determine whether the coupon code field is
left blank then you could display a message that states you are entitled to
a discount (if a code has been issued to that account). Please be sure an
enter your coupon code that has been delivered to you via email/mail
whatever. I assume the reason you want them to enter the code is to track
how successful the campaign or rewards program?

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Thanks,
Dave

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[Decker]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply....We offer our marketing to our clients for
FREE. We give them a coupon code for a fixed amount that reduces the
price off their balance order. For example. User 1 orders 25 posters
at $1 dollar each. He will have a coupon code that is worth $500
dollars to start. We want USER 1 to place an order for 25 posters at a
cost of $25 dollars. When he enters his coupon code the price becomes
$0 because USER 1 used $25 of the $500 from his coupon code. He now
has $475 left to spend. Kind of like iTunes money when you have a gift
card entered into iTunes.. The issue is that very few clients enter
their coupon codes in and we have to manually track each order after
wards.

If we can make the coupon code require before finalizing an order that
would be very helpful.

Does that make sense,
Dave