Coupon Management

Brief Introduction

Coupons are one of the best ways to drive traffic, introduce a new product line or help get rid of unwanted inventory. Aren’t these benefits something you would want your vendors to enjoy. With help of WCMp you can allow your vendors some capabilities that can let them add coupons from their dashboard itself. Let’s take a quick look at how we can help.

Overview

With WCMp, Owners/Admin can:

• Let vendors add, publish and edit coupons from the vendor’s dashboards
• Handle coupon cost, together with their vendors
• Keep track of Coupons published. 

Add Coupon 

To let vendors add coupons from vendor’s Dashboard

1. Go to Admin Dashboard and then navigate to WCMp menu, from there select the Setting submenu 
2. On the settings page go to the Capabilities tab 
3. Tick the submit coupon option found under the Product Capability section
4. Now the vendors would be able to add coupons from their dashboard
5. Once they have added a coupon they can submit it for your approval

If you don’t want to provide your vendors with this capability you can leave the submit coupon option unticked. 

    Note: This option only allows vendors to add coupons. The coupons wouldn’t be available on your site unless published. In order to know how coupons can be published keep reading.

Publish Coupon 

As mentioned in the previous discussion by ticking on the submit coupon option you just allow your vendors to add a coupon. If you want the coupon created by the vendor to appear on your site it has to be published. Follow these steps to provide your vendor with the ability to publish his coupons. 

1. Go to Admin Dashboard and then navigate to WCMp menu, from there select the Setting submenu 
2. Once the settings page loads, go to the Capabilities tab
3. Tick the Publish coupon option found under the product capability section.
4. Now vendors can directly publish coupons without waiting for your approval.

Alternatively, If you want to check coupon details before it is published you can leave the publish coupon option unmarked. In this case when the vendor submits his coupons you can check for errors, edit if needed or simply read through it. Once satisfied you can publish it on your site.

Note: Pending coupons waiting for your approval would appear on your to-do list found under the WCMp menu. To know more read here

Edit Coupon. 

 Coupons can be used and reused. Sometimes vendors can reuse existing coupons by making some changes to them for i.e festival offers. For cases like these allow your vendor to edit his coupons. These steps will show how you can do that:

1. Go to the Admin dashboard and then WCMp menu, from there scroll down to Setting submenu
2. Once the Setting page loads navigate to Capabilities tab.
3. Tick on Edit Coupons option found under the Product Capability section
4. Now your vendors possess the ability to edit published coupons

Alternatively, if you want to stop vendors from editing their coupons once it is published leave the edit options unmarked. 

Share the Cost of Coupon

Deepen your bonds with your vendors by paying for the cost of the coupon along with him. WCMp offers an option that will let you share the cost of a coupon with your vendor. To see how this works:

1. Go to the Admin dashboard and then select the WCMp menu
2. Select Settings submenu found under the WCMp menu 
3. Once the setting page loads go to Payment Tab
4. On the Payment Tab under What to pay section tick on the Share coupon discount option. 
5. Selecting this option would mean that vendor commission would be calculated after deducting the discount and so you would not have to bear the cost of the coupon by yourself.

Note:To know more about how the coupon discount is calculated read here.

View Published Coupons

You can keep track of the coupons being sold on your site with these simple instructions

1. Go to WordPress Dashboard and then navigate to the WooCommerce menu from there select the coupons submenu
2. Once the Coupons page opens you will be able to view 
   1. Code: This is the coupon title given by the vendor
   2. Coupon Type: the type of discount offered on a product or products i.e fixed product or percentage discount etc
   3. Coupon Amount: the coupon amount being offered.

• Description: Info about the coupon for internal use

1. Product Id: an identification number given to identify the product on which the coupon discount is applicable i.e scarf (#28)
2. Usage/ Limit: The number of times the coupon can be used.
3. Expiry Date: the last date till which the coupon is applicable.

Add a Coupon from Vendors Dashboard

Add Coupon 

Now that we have discussed what are the capabilities the admin can bestow on the vendor let us see what the vendor can do with those capabilities. To demonstrate let us add a coupon from the vendor’s dashboard. 

To add a coupon a vendor must:

1.  Go to the vendor’s dashboard and then navigate to Coupons menu
2. Select add coupon submenu from the Coupons menu 
3. Once the new coupon page loads fill the following details 
   • Coupon code: Coupon code is a computer generated code consisting of letters and numbers that if a consumer enters it into the checkout page he will receive a discount on his current purchase. 
   • Description: Information about the coupon for internal use. This field is optional
   • Coupon Data Meta Box: This is where you will fill in the important details like price, restriction or usage and limit.
     1. General Tab: here the vendor has to add the discount type, the coupon amount and the expiration date
     2. Usage Restriction Tab: In this tab the vendor can add restrictions to the usage of the coupons
        1. Minimum Spend: The minimum amount a customer can spend before he can use the coupon.
        2. Maximum Spend: The maximum amount a customer can spend after which the coupon becomes invalid
        3. Individual use only option: Ticking this option will stop the customer from using this coupon with other coupons
        4. Exclude sale items option: Ticking this option will stop the customer from using this coupon on a discounted sale item
        5. Products: select the product name by hovering your arrow on this field on which the coupon can be applied 
        6. Exclude Products: select the product name by hovering your arrow on this field on which the coupon can not be applied
        7. Product categories:Product categories that the coupon will be applied to.
        8. Exclude categories:Product categories that the coupon will not be applied to
        9. Allowed Emails – Email address or addresses that can use a coupon. Verified against customer’s billing email
     3. Usage Limits: In this field the vendor can set limits to the number of times the coupon can be used, the number of items the coupon can be applied to and the number of times the coupon can be used by every individual customer. 
4. Once the given fields are filled the vendor can either submit or publish the coupon

View Coupon List 

 The vendor can keep tab on the coupons added along with the coupon amount. To view added coupons the vendor has to :

1. Go to the Vendor’s Dashboard and then navigate to Coupons menu
2. From the Coupons menu select all Coupons submenu
3. On the All Coupons page the vendor can:
   • Coupon(s) This is the coupon title given by the vendor
   • Coupon Type: the type of discount offered on a product or products i.e fixed product or percentage discount etc
   • Coupon Amount: the coupon amount being offered.
   • Usage/ Limit: The number of times the coupon can be used.
   • Expiry Date: the last date till which the coupon is applicable.
   • Actions: Vendors can take actions like editing the coupon or view it on the shop page

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