Oh yeah! Can’t wait to dig into it!

Fu#$^&! awesome!!! That is all I can to say.

Not only coupon codes, but a whole section for Marketing.

Brilliant!!

Note: Feel free to us this in your comment section of your blog!

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Much of the section is based on your excellent work DanW. thanks a lot for this! Please let us know if you have any other suggestions for the section!

I do actually. I need to contact you guys about some things I have been working on with another company. Actually two.

As soon as I get all the material together, I will send it to you.

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Thanks Tobi and team. We’re confident this is going to help our marketing efforts no end.

Edit: Do you mind me asking why you decided to implement discount on step 2 of checkout than earlier, e.g. on the cart screen. Sure you’ve come up with a good reason but just interested to know.

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Wow, incredibly well put together Marketing section, guys, awesome work!

The main reason was that paypal pro users can skip the first step by following a special link which logs them into their paypal account on this page. The second step however is visited by everyone.

Congrats on rolling out the Marketing section—discount codes much appreciated!

The ma.gnolia link is broken. Shows up as

http://http//ma.gnolia.com/

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awesome!

fantastic!

Fixed the ma.gnolia.com link, thanks.

Wow, thank you guys! Will put it to use right away…

Question: “and applies to orders of USD __ or more.”
Is that USD __ including shipping or excluding the shipping amount?

I can answer that Kati, and I have used it and have my first order in from it. It is before shipping amount. So, excluding the shipping amount.

On a minor request, making an existing code editable would be great instead of having to delete it and recreate it if a mistake is made in setting it up. Or worse, you make it, advertise the code and THEN discover you made a major error in it.

yes yes yes!!

I am in coupon heaven now.

You guys rock.

Few questions…

1. Is this totally separate from Google Checkout coupons? (looks like it is).

2. Can I integrate Google Checkout Coupons into my Shopify cart now?

For all shopify folks feel free to use this coupon 5OFF if you want to save an extra 5% off your game order :) (Gotta test this somehow! hehe)

Update: I added a coupon and when I add an item to my cart I don’t see a coupon field to show it. Do I need to modify my template? When I hit checkout it just shows my money order or Google Checkout page.

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Valien, I believe the coupons are automatically sent to Google Checkout and can be entered there by your customers.

You won’t see the coupon field on your cart. It’s on the final checkout page with the payment info.

Thankyou Shopify!

One of the key features we have been waiting for!

YOU ROCK!

Any chance of adding 1 time coupon support? Where the coupon would expire after 1 use or even a number of uses specified by us?

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I 2nd that Dan. A coupon for the first X people would be great.

Funny how when we get something great, we always want more :-)

It really is nice guys!

Could you not just change stock quantity and set it so customer cannot purchase when at zero?

I guess – First 10 buyers and last 10 in stock

Cliff,

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t have a test case to try it out so I wasn’t sure how it would show up. I’ll email the coupon to some folks and see if it does show up or not :)

~Allen

Johnnyrules,

Doesn’t really work for a store wide sale where you have 10’s or 100’s of products.

We support using coupons with Google Checkout. Google Checkout uses your Shopify coupons. Basically when the buyer enters the code in Google Checkout, Google Checkout will then ask Shopify if that is a valid coupon for the store and then apply the appropriate discount.

The coupons you create in Google Checkout itself are in no way used or usable by Shopify.

We’ll see about limiting the total number of uses of a discount on Monday :)

Cody, did you mean it only works with google checkout?

We support discount codes with all payment mechanisms supported by Shopify even google checkout. Be advised though that google checkout lets you create own coupon codes in their admin. Those will not work. This is a technical limitation on Google’s side of things. It shouldn’t really matter though because our discount system is as complete as theirs ! :)

Thanks for all the great feedback guys! It’s much appreciated

Tobi,

That’s the answer I was looking for! Sweet. So I’ll not use google’s coupon management system but shopify’s instead. :)

Thanks again!

Looks great, guess I really need to get some promotions started. Could we get coupons that only apply to a specific item. What about free shipping coupons?

-Jared

This is great. We wanted to do mailing to announce our site redesign and now we can include coupon!!

Thanks.

This truly deserves praise!

Kati,

The discounts apply to the price of the cart’s line items not including shipping or taxes. So if you have a requirement of $10 then they must have $10 worth of line items in the cart to meet the requirement.

This also applies during the application of a coupon. You could give the customer a 100% discount, which would make the subtotal $0, but they would still pay the shipping amount.

I added the ability to limit the number of uses of a discount. Have fun!

Brilliant

Thanks Cody : )

Nice. I’m all over that update!

Tobi,

I sent you a link to that video I told you about.

thanks for this update. Ill be sure to put it to good use when my site fully kicks off.

one question i had. Is it possible to limit a coupon to a collection? my reasoning is that i have a variety of products and the profit margin varys greatly. if the coupons were limited to a certain collection i could have a specific sale on those items without having to manually change all the prices. it would also mean i could offer bigger discounts on the collections with higher profit margins.

just a thought.

thanks again.

Shawkshaw,

Very interesting idea. We’ll definitely keep this idea in mind when we do any updates to the discount system.

I like Shawkshaw’s idea as well. Would also like to see free shipping coupons.

I’ve just starting using shopify and am very impressed by all that is available. My big missing feature was…discount coupons! But now you’ve got it and it works great.

+1 vote on free shipping from us with purchases over certain amount.

Good job, JP!

We’ve just launched our store, through which we sell shirts, but we also will be giving some away.

So I wanted to add a big +1 for shipping coupons, so that we can give a way a shirt and not have the customer pay anything at all.

Mathew,

Shipping coupons are something that I’d like to add as soon as I get a free moment.

Shawkshaw wrote on 05:15AM, Mar 30, 2007:

One of our stores is going to really need this feature very soon. Was there any progress on that?

Do the discount codes apply to all items? Usually when a store gives a discount, it is only for items at regular price. Is there a way to exclude the items that are on sale?

Toby? Cody? Any updates? :)

Is there now a product specific coupon ability? Sorry if it’s answered, I’m a newbie

Cynthia
www.shopnear.net

I second Cynthia… another newbie interested in Product Specific Discounts/Coupons.

I third Cynthia.

This is a really big thing for me as well. I’ve asked the question on getsatisfaction here too:

http://getsatisfaction.com/shopify/topics/can_we_restrict_discounts_to_certain_products_and_collections_of_goods

We just upgraded one of our stores to use the coupons – great stuff, one question
We want to give a discount dependent on the price of your order: for instance – any order over $100 get 10% off, any order over $150 get 15% off etc
anyone have suggestions on this feature.

Anyone have any suggestions on my topic posted above….
Thanks I think this would be a great idea to implement with the coupon system if at all possible

evolvestudios:

currently you will need to create separate codes for each discount level.

on the original topic:

I too would really like product specific codes!