Best Way to Set Up a Coupon

[butterscotch]

Hello All,

I need your guidance in regards to how to best approach this promotion. I have a promotion that works this way: A customer gets X valued at 11.95 product when they spend over $40.00. X product is a product we do not sell on our site. Any creative ideas as to how to get around this - the functionality doesn't exists.

I tried by putting 0 as a discount but afraid the honour system is not reliable.

[mazhar]

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X product is a product we do not sell on our site

Please make it clear. If the products is not at our store how can we apply coupon on it.

[butterscotch]

Hi Mazhar,

yes, in essence the promotion is a gift with purchase, once a customer spends over $40.00 the customer gets a gift. The gift is not an item that we sell online. I wanted to use the coupon function so that Name Description of the name coupon would appear on the order confirmation page. In this way the customer would no they will be receiving a gift and our shipping department would know they have to include this in there.

[mazhar]

Hi Mazhar,

yes, in essence the promotion is a gift with purchase, once a customer spends over $40.00 the customer gets a gift. The gift is not an item that we sell online. I wanted to use the coupon function so that Name Description of the name coupon would appear on the order confirmation page. In this way the customer would no they will be receiving a gift and our shipping department would know they have to include this in there.

This can not be accomplish through the coupons. You will need some customization to make it through. One possible customization solution could be that you create a product for gift and change its visibility to hidden so that no one can buy it through store. Then you need to add this basket manually to the order at some common place after the placement of the order. A good location could be the Receipt page. You can check that if the order is more then 40$ then manually add that free product to the order.

On other possible solution could be that you make some custom routine on the admin end that you can run before the shipping and it will check the all order prices and then add the product manually to the order which has amount greater then 40$.

Here is the sample using the first technique hopefully it will help you. First create a product for example we say it Free Gift. Now from the database's ac_Product table find the ProductId of this product. After finding the ProductId edit the ConLib/ReceiptPage.ascx.cs and locate the following line of code

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//UPDATE CAPTION
        Caption.Text = String.Format(Caption.Text, _Order.OrderId);

and make it look like as below also provide your ProductId value in place of 230 in the below code

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//UPDATE CAPTION
        Caption.Text = String.Format(Caption.Text, _Order.OrderId);

        if (_Order.TotalCharges > 40)
        {
            bool giftExist = false;
            foreach (OrderItem orderItem in _Order.Items)
                if (orderItem.Name == "Gift")
                    giftExist = true;
            if (!giftExist)
            {
                List<OrderItem> orderItems = OrderItemDataSource.CreateForProduct(230, 1);
                if ((orderItems != null) && (orderItems.Count > 0))
                {
                    int shipmentId = 0;
                    if (_Order.Shipments != null && _Order.Shipments.Count > 0)
                        shipmentId = _Order.Shipments[0].OrderShipmentId;
                    foreach (OrderItem item in orderItems)
                    {
                        item.OrderShipmentId = shipmentId;
                        _Order.Items.Add(item);
                    }
                    _Order.Save();
                }
            }
        }

Save the file and now check by placing an order having amount greater then 40$.

[butterscotch]

Thank you so much.