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Gift Voucher Setup
- Before you start using Vouchers and Coupons it is important to realise that there are several different areas where you can use this module:
- Selling Gift Vouchers through your store
- Sending Gift Vouchers or Discount Coupons to your customers to encourage sales
- Sending Gift Vouchers or Discount Coupons to your customers when they open an account
- All these approaches use the same module but the setup is different for each senario.
Creating a Gift Voucher
- Creating a gift voucher for a customer to buy is the same as creating a new product with the exception that the gift vouchers model number must start with the word GIFT in upper case. (For example, it can be GIFT_25 or GIFT25 or whatever you would like to use as the suffix to the word.)
The model number must start with the word GIFT
- You can also create gift vouchers by sending them to your customers via the Admin→Vouchers/Coupons→Mail Gift Voucher selection within the admin.
- To use this to send a voucher to a customer use the drop down customer list. To send to a single customer or future customer you can put their email in the Email To: text box.
- You must not use both the customer dropdown list and the Email To: text box or the customer will get 2 gift vouchers.
- Gift vouchers are a virtual products and as such they do not require shipping charges to be added to them. To avert the shipping charge on gift vouchers you must set the weight of the gift voucher to 0 when creating the product and enable downloads by setting true the value admin→configuration→downloads→enable download.
Do NOT use attributes for Gift Vouchers and Coupons - create individual products for each denomination.
Courtesy of jdistad
Courtesy of jdistad
Enabling Gift Vouchers and Discount Coupons
- By default both of these modules are install and active within osCMax.
- In case you make changes and make a mess the default settings for these modules are as follows. If you want to understand exactly what each of the settings controls please click on them for a more detailed explaination.
The default settings for the Discount Coupons are as follows:
- Display Total :: true
- Sort Order :: 9
- Include Shipping :: true
- Include Tax :: false
- Re-calculate Tax :: None
- Tax Class :: –none–
- If you would like to read more about these settings then please click here.
The default settings for the Gift Vouchers is as follows:
- Display Total :: true
- Sort Order :: 740
- Queue Purchases :: true
- Include Shipping :: true
- Include Tax :: false
- Re-calculate Tax :: None
- Tax Class :: –none–
- Credit including Tax :: false
- If you would like to read more about these settings then please click here
- It is strongly suggested that you leave these setting as their defaults (unless you know what you are doing!)
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