Vouchers

A Voucher (or Coupon) in a way for a customer to have money off for a period of time i.e. a sale. The sale could take place in the whole of January and be called the "January Sale" which entitles all customers to 10% off. Fo a customer to have this money off they will simply type in the Voucher Code as they checkout.

The Voucher code can be printed on a flyer, sent out via email, sent out on an e-newsletter or add ed to any number of other marketing material.

To create the Voucher Code

1. Go to the Shop Admin
2. Click "- Show links -" under Customers
3. Click Active Coupons
4. Click Add New Coupon
5. Fill in the form
   1. Name of the Voucher can be any numbers and letters e.g. January Sale
   2. The code is what the customer will type in to get the money off e.g. "Jan10Sale09" could be January Sale 2009 with 10% off
   3. Click Active to make the Voucher active now
   4. Discount value type is cash amount or percentage
   5. Value is the percentage or the cash e.g. use percentege above and type 10 here to have 10% off
   6. Minimum order amount is the amount the customer will spent before they can use the vouche, use "0" for no minimum amount
   7. For the Expiration Date use the day you want the Sale to finish NB This is done in the American format MM/DD/YY
      • M = Month
      • D = Day
      • Y = Year
   8. Maximum Number of Redemptions is the amount of times the voucher can be used e.g. a customer sends back an item and you cannot replace it, you could give the customer a 1 time use voucher to cover the cost
   9. The Allowed Users are who is allowed to use the voucher e.g. using the above youmay only want the user who sent the origional product back to use the voucher, use this list to find them
   10. For allowed permisions always use "Both Wholesale and Retail"
6. Click the Submit button

You can now edit or delete the voucher from the Active coupons page