Coupon only for customers not in a group

[Jaz]

I noticed that there are a lot of post about people trying to do complicated things with coupons. I just need to do something simple, but I am stumped.

Most of my customers are not assigned to a group. These are my retail customers and the ones I want my coupons to apply to. I want to make coupons that apply to everyone that is not in a group and exclude everyone that is in a group. This coupon should also work for new customers that have not registered.

I know how to asign a coupon to a group, but how do I exclude all customers that are assigned a group?

[kastnerd]

maybe make a group called "no group" and make it so all non users are assigned to this group automatically.

[Jaz]

Is there a way to automatically asign a group? Would it work for those who choose not to make an account? Is there a way to quickly asign all my old customers to this group?

[mazhar]

You can try something like below to automatically add customers to some user group. For example below code will put customers into a group with group id 11

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foreach (User user in Token.Instance.Store.Users)
        {
            if (!user.IsInGroup(11))
            {
                UserGroup userGroup = new UserGroup(user.UserId, 11);
                user.UserGroups.Add(userGroup);
                user.User.Save();
            }
        }

[Jaz]

Thanks! Now, where would I put this code? Will this do anything to help me reasign all the existing customers?

[mazhar]

Please read following post. You can place some button one some suitable page to carry this out
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9207

[Jaz]

Just one more question. Does the script only put unassigned users in a group, or will it affect users that are already assigned to a group?

[Logan Rhodehamel]

Another approach that might be simpler would be to make a custom change to the control that accepts a coupon code from the customer. You could create your coupon and not apply a group filter. Then in the coupon code control, add a little bit of code something like:

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if (couponcode == "mycode" && user is not in a group)

And wrap that around the line that applies the coupon. Then you won't have to do anything with automated group memberships.

[wave_werks]

Another approach that might be simpler would be to make a custom change to the control that accepts a coupon code from the customer. You could create your coupon and not apply a group filter. Then in the coupon code control, add a little bit of code something like:

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if (couponcode == "mycode" && user is not in a group)

And wrap that around the line that applies the coupon. Then you won't have to do anything with automated group memberships.

If anyone tries this method with success please, please, please post back with the code used to make it work and any comments on your experience in getting it to work. We have been looking for a way to give out coupon codes to everyone - which includes advertising in print/web/etc to prospective customers who would not yet be in a group. This would be a HUGE deal for us if it works.

@Logan: I'm not an expert code writer so a lot of this stuff is very foreign to me. How would I "wrap that around the line that applies the coupon"?

Thanks!

[Logan Rhodehamel]

In the files ConLib/CouponDialog.ascx.cs and ConLib/PaymentPage.ascx.cs, there is code that looks something like this:

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        if (coupon != null)
        {
            if (!CouponCalculator.IsCouponAlreadyUsed(Token.Instance.User.Basket, coupon))
            {

This is the area that is best suited to implement exclusions for coupons that should only apply to users without any group assignment. The code would be changed to something like this:

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        if (coupon != null)
        {
            // THIS IS A LIST OF COUPON CODES THAT SHOULD ONLY APPLY TO USERS WITHOUT GROUP ASSIGNMENT
            // ENTER THE CODES IN ALL UPPER CASE
            string[] noGroupCoupons = { "NOGROUP1", "NOGROUP2" };
            // THIS CODE CHECKS IF THE COUPON REQUESTED IS IN THE NO GROUP LIST
            bool couponAppliesToNoGroup = (Array.IndexOf(noGroupCoupons, coupon.CouponCode.ToUpperInvariant()) > -1);
            // A COUPON PASSES GROUP CHECK IF IT IS NOT IN THE NO GROUP LIST, OR THE USER HAS NO GROUPS
            bool passesGroupCheck = (!couponAppliesToNoGroup || Token.Instance.User.UserGroups.Count == 0);
            if (!CouponCalculator.IsCouponAlreadyUsed(Token.Instance.User.Basket, coupon) && passesGroupCheck)
            {

With this modification, you just provide a list of coupon codes that should only apply to users without a group. Make sure to enter them in all upper case characters.

Then, further down the code (maybe 50 lines down) will be code like this:

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                InvalidCouponMessage.Text = "The coupon code you've entered is already in use.";

The code is slightly different between the two files but this is where the message is being set for an invalid coupon. You will probably want to show a message particular to the situation where a coupon code is not valid because of the group exclusion:

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                if (!passesGroupCheck) InvalidCouponMessage.Text = "The coupon code is only available to retail customers.";
                else InvalidCouponMessage.Text = "The coupon code you've entered is already in use.";

[hassonmike]

Logan, I tried the code you suggested, but is still accepting coupons from users in groups. I see that this post is kind of old, might there be some changes needed to bring this up to date?

[illyrianmoon]

Has anyone successfully added this? I, too, added the code, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Our dealers are combining volume discounts with a coupon, and if I specify which groups can use the coupon, regular customers can't use the coupon.