Discount /coupons

Hi,

I want a coupon code for all categories, except one.

But I cannot select the categories I want the coupon to be valid for. I can only select one category and check the subcategories checkbox.
So checking the root category would be an option, if I can exclude categories.

There is no way to exclude categories. So how can I do this?

Maurice

Hello,

I think that you can :

- Create another category named "discount" for example
- Put your "discounted" categories under the "discount" category

Then you'll be able to select the categories you wanted for your coupon.

Hi Mohamed,

Thank you for your answer. When I do this I need to mess around with the categories, which is really not handyif you have several hundreds of categories. Besides, the articles and categories that have a discount vary per time and per coupon.

for example:
Customer 1 buys "article 1a" and therefore gets a coupon for a related "article 1b" and so on.
or gets a coupon for the category of article 1a.


My initial question was just the beginning and I discovered that even that is not possible.

Isn't there a way to:

- Just attach a coupon to a user (i.e. have a list of users to select from with each coupon)
- Have a list of categories to include with each coupon
- Have a list of categories to exclude with each coupon
- Have a list of products to include with each coupon
- Have a list of products to exclude with each coupon

If you have those fields to choose from with every coupon, you can simply fulfill everyone's needs because the current coupon system has almost zero flexibility...

Maurice

Hi Nicolas,

Yes, you are right. Zero is indeed too harsh. But being able to attach just one product or one category to a coupon is not very handy. What if I have 15 categories that I want to attach to a coupon and 130 categories not? Or just 20 products from one category? Or generate a coupon for a customer that bought a product and give discount for related products? Or a combination of these?

Is there a way to change this?

Do you know AWO coupon?
I have worked with AWOCoupon during the times I had Virtuemart. Virtuemart is getting worse every upgrade. That's why I dropped it and moved to Hika.
However, AWO Coupon (Virtuemart extension) is great, but they don't have it for Hikashop.

The setup is slightly different, yet simple. Generate a coupon and you have:
- a select field to choose users or a user for whom the coupon is valid.
- a select field to choose products (ending up in a comma separated string of article id's) for what the couponis valid for.
- a select field to choose categories (also ending up in a comma separated string of category id's) for what the couponis valid for.

Kind regards,
Maurice

Hi Nicolas,

Thank you for your answer. It would great if these ideas are put in the todo list and eventually made available.
I think you will make people happy who actually use coupons, and stimulate people to are not using it yet.
I think it's a great addition to Hikashop.

Do you have any idea about a possible timeframe?

Thank you,
Maurice

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for this message!
I contacted Seyi and bought it right away.

Thanks again!
Maurice