How to create a new web discount

Topics for add a new web discount:

• Discount name and activation
• Discount type
• Discount qualification by dollar value
• Discount qualification by minimum order quantity
• Discount usage limitation
• Allow combine and processing sequence
• Customer eligibility
• Ship to country eligibility

• From MANAGE YOUR STORE (DASHBOARD), go to MARKETING then go to DISCOUNTS page.
• DISCOUNT MANAGER page will list all the discounts created in the system. 
• Click [ADD WEB DISCOUNT] to create new discount.

Discount name and activation 

• Name your discount for reporting and branding. 
• Discount Name (For Admin) will display at discount manager and reports. 
• Discount Name (For Customer) will display to customer during checkout and invoice. 

• You may activate discount code as one of the qualification to the discount. 
• Turn on [REQUIRE DISCOUNT CODE TO ACTIVE THIS DISCOUNT]
• Enter the discount code. If you need multiple codes, enter one each a row.
• Check [ALL SAME CODE TO BE USED MULTIPLE TIMES] when you allow the same code to be use more than one time. 

Click [GENERATE CODE] to generate list of random codes in batch.

• Turn on [IS THIS DISCOUNT ACTIVE FOR USE ON THE SITE] to activate the discount. 
• You may configure the start date / time and end date / time.

Discount type 

• Select the required discount type and configure the condition accordingly. 
• Shopcada support the below discount types:
  • Percentage off
  • Tier Percentage off
  • Fixed amount off
  • Buy A and Get Discount on B
  • Free Item
  • Buy X items for $Y
  • $X Discount For Every $Y Spent
  • Free Shipping
  • Shipping Charges Offset

Discount qualification by dollar value

• If you need the customer to meet a minimum amount of spending to earn a discount, you need to enter the required amount. 
• You may further define the products qualify in the minimum amount calculation. 

Discount qualification by minimum order qty

• If you need the customer to meet a minimum quantity of purchase to earn a discount, you need to enter the required quantity. 
• You may further define the products qualify in the minimum quantity calculation. 

Discount usage limitation

• If you wish to limit the number of discount usage, you may setup under [LIMIT NUMBER OF TIMES THIS DISCOUNT CAN BE USE TO] 
• If you wish to limit the number of discount usage bu customer, setup under [LIMIT NUMBER OF TIMES THIS DISCOUNT CAN BE USE BY A PARTICULAR CUSTOMER] 
• Check and enter the value for [LIMIT NUMBER OF TIMES THIS DISCOUNT CAN BE USE BY A PARTICULAR CUSTOMER WITHIN A CALENDAR YEAR] if you offer annual recurring discount, e.g. Birthday discount.

Allow combine / processing sequence

• To allow customer apply more than one discount during checkout, you need to turn on [ALLOW COMBINE WITH OTHER DISCOUNT] for ALL the discounts you allow combine.
• Use PROCESSING SEQUENCE to determine the sequence the different discount apply to order. 
• Smaller processing sequence number will be apply to order first. 
• For example: For a campaign Spend-$100-get-10%-discount and Spend-$200-get-20%-discount, processing sequence for Spend-$200-get-20%-discount should be smaller. So customer will qualify for this higher amount discount before the lower amount discount. 

Customer eligibility

• You may limit a discount for first timer buyer only. For example discount for newsletter subscriber. 

• You may limit the discount to the selected groups of customer or exclude the selected groups of customer

Ship to country eligibility

• You may limit the discount to the selected Ship-To countries or exclude the selected Ship-To countries.