1. eGrove systems open source - Grove Coupon
Introduction:
eGrove System at first focused website designing, building e-commerce
websites, now masters every steps of a professional web project: concept,
design, accessibility, development, web marketing, SEO and more
We base our offers on the market's most powerful CMS like Joomla,
Wordpress, ZenCart etc, We provide our clients the most competitive prices
and delivery time, a very large usability even for the most beginners, a
security that's everyday checked for issues and tested by hundreds of
developers, a fully customizable template design etc.
At last, we offer customize development services based on the Joomla! CMS
open source framework, and a large catalogue of open source Joomla!
extensions we are developing, for free. Yes you read it right, we offer it for
free as Open Source extension.
About Virtue Mart:
VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution designed as an extension
of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS) by Soren
Eberhardt Biermann. VirtueMart was written in PHP and MySQL database.
VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution and all the application
code is openly visible in PHP. This helps the developers to view, update or
customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself
offers simplified templates structure that allows various shopping and cart
pages to be edited as standard HTML and CSS. Based on this feature this
Grove Coupon Plug-in extension has been designed and offered for clients
and developers as open source extension.

2. Coupon Code Feature in VirtueMart:
The products can be offered at discount prices on a product basis or category
basis in the built-in Virtue Mart eCommerce Solution. The offering for
seasonal discount or customer based discount code or coupon code feature is
not possible in core Virtue Mart Solution.
VirtueMart Grove Coupon:
Grove Coupon is offered as a plug-in for the Virtue Mart, which integrates
with this eCommerce System and can provide the store manager a facility
for a customized coupon code Management System. By using this extension
the store owners can offer or can issue their clients and customers the
coupons/ discounts to increase their revenue. The main feature of this
coupon code is it can be manageable and customizable from the
administrator panel of the Virtue Mart.
Features:
The Administrator or Store owners of the website can able to manage the
different coupon codes for different customers or group of customers. The
store owner can add coupon code with the following scenarios or options:
 Can able to create own code number / text as promotional code
 Can able to choose start date and expiry date of the discount offer.
 Can able to enter a minimum order amount linked to the promotional
code
 Can able to set a number of times that actual code can be used by a
single customer.
 Can able to provide comments with the specific discount code
 Can view how many times a promo code has been used in reports
section

3.  Can able to edit or delete codes before used by the customer as a
precaution basis (control over codes issued)
The customers of the store has the ability to enter gift / coupon code during
checkout. The offer price is deducted the amount from the total products
price and not including the Shipping price, if required the Shipping prices
can also be controlled through some tweaks. They are provided to use two
types of discounts,
 Percentage discount (% discount) or
 Flat-rate discount
The system is also have the feature to validate the promo code in the
database and can issue warning message on screen if the code is not valid.
Conclusion:
Now the store owners who uses Virtue Mart can now add different types of
coupons and promo web development services in their online store by
incorporating this Grove Coupon Plug-in for Virtue Mart without any costs,
because Grove Coupon is absolutely free and open source. For more
information visit: http://www.egrovesys.com
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