Quick Tip: How to Add Coupons to a Magento eCommerce Store

Say you want to run a promotional offer on your Magento eCommerce store; or to give promotional discounts to your users; or perhaps a buy 1 get 1 free offer.

Magento allows the admin to create coupon codes and set the terms and conditions. And the Magento 2 update makes it easier to create coupon codes for your campaign.

Coupon codes can be used with cart price rules to apply a discount that's pre-set with specific conditions. A coupon code can be generated for a particular group of customers, or for anyone who makes a purchase over a certain amount. The coupons can be emailed to customers, or Magento store owners can create in-store coupons for mobile users.

Adding Coupons from the Admin Panel

Let’s see how can we add coupons from the admin panel.

After logging into admin panel, navigate to Promotions > Shopping Cart Promotional Rules.

The new page shows you all of the shopping cart promotional price rules that have been added. To add a new rule, click on the Add New Rule button on the right-hand side.

This will load a new page through which you'll be able to add a new rule.

Following are the field details:

• Rule Name: name to identify and describe it.
• Description: details to specify its purpose.
• Status: Active/Inactive to apply/not apply.
• Customer Groups: select General and Not Logged in to cover visitors and registered users visiting front-end.
• Coupon: select Specific Coupon from the drop down and add your unique coupon code in the field below it. You can also set Uses per Coupon and Uses per Customer to limit the usage of coupon by registered users.
• From Date/To Date: if the rule is to be set for some specific period, dates can be selected.
• Priority: priority matters when there's more than one rule applicable. It will work according to the rule's priority set from this field.

After adding basic details for the rule, now we need to add the conditions to the rule, if there are any to be added.

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by Binay Jha via SitePoint