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Discount codes

Provide discount code functionality for your Treepl CMS shopping cart. Ideal for promotions, customer loyalty and conversions or to help move more stock.

Discount codes are a powerful sales tool when used wisely and Treepl CMS can help you control how you utilise these. Control release and expiry date of codes, the type of discount (fixed price, percentage, free shipping...) and even how many times a code can be used.

Managing Discount Codes

Found under ‘eCommerce’ > ‘Discount codes’, here you’ll find a list of all discount codes created for use in your shopping cart.

Clicking the pencil icon () to the right of each item will allow editing of that discount code Clicking the trash can icon () will delete the discount code.

To manually create a new discount code, click the “ADD NEW CODE” button above the item list.

Adding / Editing

Here you’ll be able to configure the details of your discount code and enable it for use within your shopping cart.

Below are further details for the fields available.

Option
Description
Code
The actual code your customers need to enter in order to redeem this voucher. This code can contain spaces and special characters and is not case sensitive(when redeeming).
Description
The description,or notes,about the discount code providing further info to the admin user about the code. This value is not displayed on the front-end.
Type

Fixed Amountallows the amount of the discount to be applied as a fixed value reduction of the total order price.

Percentage Of Orderallows the amount of the discount to be applied as a percentage reduction of the total order price.

Free Shippingallows the discount code to cancel out the cost of any shipping price applied to the order.

Amount
The value used to calculate the discount applied. This value can be a fixed amount or a percentage,depending on the ‘Type’ setting above.
Currency
The currency in which the discount code can be used.
Minimum Order Value
Assigns a restriction on the use of the discount code unless the order total exceeds,or is equal to,this minimum value threshold(before tax).
Use Expire After Redemption
Enable discount code expiration after a defined number of redemptions have taken place. The discount code will be marked as disbled once its redemption threshold has been reached.
Expire after x redemptions
A number defining the number of times the code can be used. This value will also reduce as redemptions occur.
Apply Discount to Selected Catalogs
Enable discount code to be restricted to selected catalogs only. The discount code will not be redeemable for orders containing products from catalogs not defined in the ‘Catalogs’ selection below.
Catalogs
Define the catalog/s allowed for use of this discount code.
Release Date
Set a date and time in which this discount code will become enabled for use in your shopping cart.
Expiration Date
Set a date and time in which this discount code will become disabled and no longer able to be redeemed in your shopping cart.
Enabled
Set the discount code as enabled when checked(uncheck to disable).

Redeeming

Customers can redeem discount codes against products they are purchasing during the shopping cart stage. The discount code code is entered into a system input field and will update the cart details automatically after the customer has entered the code and moved focus from the field.
Discount code codes are not case sensitive so do not need to match the case of the discount code entered in the admin.

The predefined discount code input field can be rendered onto your shopping cart system page using Liquid via the discountCodeHtml property stored in the shopping cart Liquid object (which should already be present on your shopping cart page).

So, assuming you have the shopping_cart component added like this:

{% component type:"shopping_cart", layout: "", collectionVariable:"shoppingCartData" %}

You could then render the discount code input code like this:

{{shoppingCartData.discountCodeHtml}}

And in conjunction, you could also render the applied discount code value like this:

{{shoppingCartData.discountPriceHtml}}

The discount code amount will be applied to the order total in full if the order total is equal to or greater than the discount amount, or up to the value of the order if it’s lower.

If the discount code reduces the order total to 0 then you may want to conditionally switch your checkout payment method to ‘Free Payment’, otherwise you may still be asking the customer for credit card details (or whichever payment method you normally have in place).

One way to achieve this might be to add the select attribute to the payment method dropdown option (if you are using this element), like so:

<select id="Payment_Type" name="Payment_Type">
    <option value="CreditCard">Credit Card</option>
    <option value="Free" {% if shoppingCartData.totalPrice == 0 %}selected{% endif %}>Free Payment</option>
    <option value="Offline">Offline Payment</option>
</select>

Or, if you have implemented a hidden input to define the payment method, you could do something like this:

<input type="hidden" value="{% if shoppingCartData.totalPrice == 0 %}Free{% else %}CreditCard{% endif %}" id="Payment_Type" name="Payment_Type">


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