WooCommerce Coupon Management - Tutorial

Coupons are not only helpful in promoting your shop sales, but it is also the best way to handle your customers by offering them different packages and discounts along with rewards.

If you are interested in using coupons with WooCommerce, then you have to allow it in WooCommerce. This article will provide step by step instructions for Coupon Management in WooCommerce.

WooCommerce Coupon Management Review

• Add coupons
• Usage restriction
• Usage limitation
• Sending Coupons
• Application of Coupons to order
• FAQs

Open WooCommerce, then go to the Settings and then open General and tick mark the checkbox to Enable the use of Coupons and then save changes.

WooCommerce > Settings > General > Enable use of Coupons > Save changes

Figure 1 Coupons settings

Add Coupons

To add a coupon, you have to follow a few steps and these are:

Step 1:? Open WooCommerce and then go to Coupons.

Step 2: You can create a new coupon by clicking on Add Coupon button, or you can edit already existing coupon by hover over and then click on the Edit button.

Figure 2 Add Coupons

There are two required fields, that you have to fill when you add a new coupon and these are:

Coupon code: This field must be distinctive as it is used as an identifier and then used by the customer whenever they apply for a coupon.

Description: It is an optional field, that is used for the internal purpose and it contains dates in effect, promotion, compensation and a ticket number.

For adding constraint and limitations, there are three sections below Coupon data and these are General, Usage Restriction and Usage Limits

Figure 3 Add new Coupon

In the General section, there are four fields and these are Discount Type, Coupon Amount, Allow free Shipping and Coupon Expiry Date.

• Discount Type: There are three choices in your drop-down while restricting the type of your coupon. These are Percentage discount, Fixed cart discount and Fixed product discount.
• In percentage discount, a discount will be offered for selected products in percentage.
• With fixed cart discount, the discount will be offered for the entire cart.
• While in Fixed product discount, a discount will be offered for selected products, but the discount will be a fixed amount.
• Coupon Amount: Amount of discount totally depends on the type of discount you selected.
• Allow free shipping: You have to remove the shipping cost when you are using coupons, and have to enable free shipping.
• Coupon expiry date: You have to mention the date of expiry of that coupon, after that specified date, the coupon will no longer be used. You can set your time zone from setting.

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