How to create a discount coupon for your eshopbox site

How to create a discount coupon
for your eshopbox site
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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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1
What is a discount coupon


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


2
Why you should offer discounts
at your eshopbox site


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


3
How to create a discount
coupon for your eshopbox site


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



Step 2:
 Click on ‘Add a Coupon’ button to start the creation process of discount
coupon

Create a discount coupon



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



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



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



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



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



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



Step 5.4:
 Select ‘Percentage off on the SRP
of a product’ if you want to offer
a percentage discount on
individual products

of 10% on Nokia E5 & E7



Step 5.5:
 Select ‘Amount discounted from
total shipping price’ if you want
to offer a discount on total
shipping price

of 100 on the shipping price
more than Rs. 800



Step 5.6:
 Select ‘Percentage off on the
total shipping price’ if you want
to offer a percentage discount on
total shipping price

of 10% on the shipping price
more than Rs. 1000



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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


Good to know

 Please review your filled info before saving

 You can edit your discount coupon anytime later


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