This chapter describes how to create promotion codes.  The Promotion Code feature presents a powerful tool for increasing sales, attracting new customers, and generating repeat sales from existing customers.  PORTALPRODIGY’s Promotion Code feature greatly simplifies the process of creating and managing promotions for both products and services.  It also makes it easy to target specific categories of customers offering specialized promotions to targeted groups.

 

The Promotions Code feature is used to create Promotions Codes which are coupons for offering customers discounts, add-ons and free products.  Promotion Codes can be created for Events, Exchanges, Membership Types, and Products.  Promotion codes can be applied to individual item pricing, groups of items and to order totals.

 

Promotion Codes feature benefits include:

 

• Automatic management and real time validation of promotion offers at point of sale.
• Seamlessly integrates with the Shopping Cart feature.
• Offer $ Discounts on specific Items, e.g. “Spring Clearance, 40% off selected items”.
• Offer $ Discount on entire Order based on qualification rules, e.g. “Purchase $25 or more and get 15% off entire order”.
• Offer giveaways predicated on purchase of minimum quantity or dollar amount such as “Buy one get one free” or “Purchase any Desktop Computer and get a free 17” LCD Monitor”.
• Automated inclusion of Items based on specified criteria including brand, manufacturer, vendor, product line, categories, etc.
• Automated email broadcasting of promotions to targeted recipients.
• Set minimum purchase dollar amount to qualify for offer.
• Set minimum purchase quantity of item in order to qualify for offer.
• Set maximum dollar discount.
• Ability to limit one offer per order.
• Ability to allow customer to combine offers.
• Easy selection of applicable products.
• Permits product exclusion lists.
• Provides customer with option to view offer and accept or decline.
• Automatic expiration of offers based on specified date range.
• Option to set time of day that the offer begins and ends, thus supporting promotions such as a “12 hour sale” or a “Midnight Madness Sale”.
• Create campaigns to manage and track promotions.

 

Some of the components, fields and settings of the Payments feature, discussed in detail in this chapter, are:

 

 

Search for Promotion Codes:

Code ID

Code

Feature

Campaign

Date Created range

Date Modified range

Method

Search option

Add New option

Clear criteria option

Print criteria option

Go to Main Menu option

 

Found Promotion Codes:

ID

Code

Applies To

Method

Add New option

Clear criteria option

Print criteria option

Go to Main Menu option

 

Promotions Codes Management page:

Applies To

Code ID

Code

Feature

Campain

Description

Start Date

Start Time

End Date

End Time

May be used with other Promotion Codes?

Minimum Purchase Amount

Minimum Order Quantity

Item Limit

Method:

% Discount

§         $ Discount

§         Free /Discounted Items

§         Specified Price

% Discount

Maximum $ Discount Allowed

Free & Discounted Items Section:

§         ID

§         Price

§         Specified Price

§         Quantity

§         Free Shipping option

§         Delete option

Applicable Items section

Method:

§         Specify Items

§         Specify Criteria

§         Specify Criteria option

§         Exclude Items option

Excluded Items section

§         ID

§         Description

§         Price

§         Delete option

Created By User

Created By Date

Modified By User

Modified By Date

Active flag

Chapter ID

Private option