Apply A Coupon Automatically To Visitor Who Comes From My Blog?

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Is it possible to apply a coupon "automatically" to a visitor who clicks on a link from (for example) one of our blog pages?

I would like to offer 10% off everything coupons to our blog page visitors.

If they click the link (on our wordpress blog), they would then go to one of our category pages.

I would like to make it as easy as possible. I don't want them to have to "try to remember" the coupon code at discount.

Is that possible?

In the past, I have done something like that with the Viking Coders affiliate manager module. It involved a bit of template coding that I probably would probably take me half a day to figure out.

Thanks in advance.

[rajnishsi]

Re: Apply A Coupon Automatically To Visitor Who Comes From My Blog?

You can use this Miva module to get the functionality for generating coupon when a customer visits a designated page, http://apps.miva.com/product/MIVA-GENERATE-COUPONS.html

In addition to that, you can add some parameter to the URLs coming from your blog, and based upon that fire this module to generate a random code for your customers.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Apply A Coupon Automatically To Visitor Who Comes From My Blog?

Thank you so much for the reply and the link to the module.

One question (or two) about how to set up the module.

1) After the module generates a coupon code, will it automatically populate the coupon field on the payment screen of the checkout with that coupon code? Or will they still have to manually type in that coupon code?

2) I want ANYBODY who comes to my Miva site from certain pages on my blog to get 10% off. So I set Eligibility for All Shoppers, right???

3) And if I DO set it for all shoppers, does anyone who goes to that page get a NEW coupon code? (I assume that when miva says a "shopper," they mean a "visitor" to that page, right?

Thanks in advance.

For me, the important thing is that the coupon code field on the payment screen (I think that is where the coupon code field appears) is populated automatically with the coupon code.

[Brennan]

Re: Apply A Coupon Automatically To Visitor Who Comes From My Blog?

The module does not auto populate the coupon box, but you can save the coupon to a cookie and then populate it yourself if you want that functionality.

2. Yes all shoppers will allow anyone to redeem the coupon

3. All shoppers applies to who can redeem to coupon. The creation of the coupon happens on each page that you add the function call. If you want to limit it so each customer only gets one coupon, then you would need to set a cookie it only outputs once.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Apply A Coupon Automatically To Visitor Who Comes From My Blog?

Hi there, Brennan:

Thanks for your help.

Is there any documentation on how to set / read a cookie so that it populates automatically?

Also, just to clarify, if I set a page to generate a coupon code, then EACH VISITOR who lands on that page will get a UNIQUE coupon code, right?

In effect, I could set the use to 1 shopper, since each visitor to the page would get their own, unique code, right?

Thanks in advance.