Privy enables you to offer discounts to visitors that sign up through your Privy campaigns. To set up your discounts, you must visit the coupons tab in your Privy Dashboard.
You will then be presented with a set of choices based on your ecommerce platform:
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Privy contains two options with respect to how you can create coupons for use in your campaign. If you choose BigCommerce you can create discounts that sync with your BigCommerce store. This is specifically intended to allow you to push discounts over to BigCommerce without having to leave Privy.
Coupon Type
There are two coupon types that can be used within Privy
Master Coupon
A master coupon is a coupon code that is given to all individuals that signup for your Privy campaign. Specifically, what this means is that if you have two customers sign up, they will both receive the exact same coupon code.
The advantage of this coupon type is that it is simpler to manage and you can use the same code in multiple campaigns and promotions. One possible drawback, however, is that a code can be more easily shared to people who did not subscribe to your list. If you are concerned about this, we recommend using unique coupon codes in your campaigns.
Unique Coupon
A unique coupon is a coupon code that is assigned to one and only one person when they sign up. As an example, if customer A and customer B sign up each will receive their own code which would not be transferable between them.
Note: This feature is only available on Commerce and higher subscriptions.
First, let's look at the configurations that common to all BigCommerce discount types.
These are selecting a title for your Discount as well as the Master Code that is to be used:
Discount Types
There are three types of discounts you can offer for your BigCommerce store:
- Free Shipping
- Percentage
- Fixed Amount
Free Shipping
The Free Shipping discount has three fields to complete. These are:
- "Free shipping discount has a maximum shipping price". When checked, the code will only apply to orders with a shipping cost under a designated amount.
- "Discount Requires a minimum subtotal". When checked, the code will only apply to orders over the designated amount. (e.g., free shipping on orders over $100)
- "Restrictions"- Limits the signups to one customer. Privy tracks this via email address.
Percentage Off
The Percentage discount has 3 parameters to be aware of similar to the ones mentioned for the free shipping discount.
These are:
- "Percentage off ". (e.g., 20% off your order)
- "Minimum subtotal requirement". (e.g., 20% off )
- "Restrictions"- Limits the signups to one customer. Privy tracks this via email address.
Fixed Amount
Like the prior two options, the Fixed Amount discount has 3 parameters to be aware of. These are:
- Selecting the fixed amount. (e.g., $25 off)
- Determining whether it applies to the whole order or individual products.
- "Restrictions"- Limits the signups to one customer. Privy tracks this via email address.
After you've set these parameters you can schedule your coupon and include an expiration date.
Scheduling Coupon Expirations
It is also possible for your coupon codes to be set to expire after a certain number of days or hours. This is in addition to the previous scheduling convention of " fixed start date and optional end date". You will find this option under the Scheduling tab located beneath the discount type configuration options:
