To do this, you will need to get to the last part of the quick checkout process, then click on the ‘Discount’ / ‘Promotion’ link.

These will open relevant pop-ups that will allow you to either enter a custom discount, or apply a promotion.

A ‘Promo Code’ is a type of promotion that involves the customer entering a code at the checkout in order to apply a discount or recieve a free product.

This promotion can apply a discount (monetary or percentage) to the total order, a discount to individual products in the order or to add a free product to your order if you have met the required criteria.

Creating a Promo Code

To create a Promo Code, you will need to click on the ‘Promotions’ tab in the sidebar of the admin section. The next page will show the list of promotions that you have available to use. To create a new promotion, press the ‘Create’ button at the top of the page.

The promotion creation modal will then pop up on the screen. Now you will need to specify a brief description of the promotion (so that you can remember what it is for at a later date).

You have 3 options when it comes to the type of Promo Code you can have. No matter which option you pick, you will need to ensure ‘Automatically Apply’ is not ticked as this will apply a discount without the customer needing to enter a code in.

Total Order

A total order discount will be applied to the final value at the checkout. Because this discounts the final payment, it will included discounts of ‘Add-Ons’ and shipping options.

As you can see from the example above, I have a ‘Promo Code’ of XMAS20 with a value of 20 percent (un-ticking ‘is percent’ will change it to a £20 value) and a person needs to have a total order amount of £100 in their basket in order to use the promotion.

Finally, the promotion is set to ‘Active’, meaning that this code can now be used on the site as soon as somebody has the requirements (£100 value or more in their basket) and have used the code (‘XMAS20’).

Per Product

‘Per Product’ allows you to specify individual products that the promotion can be used on. If a customer has added 3 products to their basket, but the Promo Code can only be used on two, only those two will have a discount applied to them.

When clicking on the categories field, all current categories will appear, allowing you to add entire categories (all of the products within them) that you would like this discount to be applied to.

You can also add individual products by simply clicking in the products field and selecting which you would like to add.

Discounts can either be automatically applied via the product, or the discount can be applied at the checkout process.

Product Discount

This discount will make the ‘product tile’ on the home page, as well as the product page show the previous price, the percentage/value discount and the new price.

To create this, go to the ‘Promotions’ tab in the dashboard and then click ‘create’ a new promotion. After which, you will need to pick a ‘product discount’ and to fill in the details of this promotion.

A video on how to do this is shown below.

A video on how to do this is shown below.https://www.useloom.com/embed/b5a6048d76544f97ab8f26a32e894645

Checkout Discount

A checkout discount is only shown at the checkout stage.

If the user has not met the criteria, the discount will still appear as an option that would be ‘available’ (without it being applied or reducing the price), but when the person clicks on it to use it, they will be prompted on why they aren’t able to use the offer. In this case, the £99.99 product did not meet the criteria of having to spend £100 or above.

The below video shows how to create a new automatic checkout promotion.