Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce (Premium Version) Getting Started Guide

Thank you for purchasing the Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Premium Version.

This document is a getting started guide for the Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Premium.

Firstly, welcome aboard! Get more creative with your coupon offers with various Advanced Coupons features so you can take your store to the next level.

Here’s what this guide will cover:

• Overview – we describe what the plugin does
• Premium Cart Conditions – we’ll show you various flexible deals you can do based on the cart conditions.
• Advanced BOGO Deals – we’ll explain what you can do with the BOGO Deals
• Cashback Coupons – we’ll show you how to give cashbacks using a coupon
• Add Products – we’ll show you how to add a specific products to the cart using a coupon
• Scheduler – set a start and expiry dates of your coupon
• Payment Methods Restriction – restricts or allow specific payments methods when using a coupon
• One-Click Apply Notification – show a message at the cart with a one-click apply button when the customer is eligible for a coupon.
• Auto Apply Coupons – automatically apply a coupon to the cart when a customer becomes eligible.
• Coupon Priority – prioritize coupons so they don’t overlap
• Virtual Coupons – create coupons in bulk
• Shipping Overrides – give your customer a shipping discount coupon.

Overview

Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Premium is the premium add-on plugin for the free Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce plugin. It requires the free plugin to be installed and activated for it to work.

You can use the features that are available in the free plugin with more premium options and flexibility. 

Premium Cart Conditions

In addition to the cart conditions that are available in the free version, here is the list of cart conditions that available in the premium version:

• Cart Weight – check if the cart has a certain weight in Kilogram
• Coupons Applied In Cart – check if certain coupon(s) has been applied in the cart
• Product Quantities Exists In Cart– check if the selected product exceeds the specified amount
• Product Stock Availability Exists In Cart – check the stock availability of the item in the cart
• Customer Has Ordered Products Before – check if the customer has ordered in a set given dates or how many orders was placed on set date
• Has Ordered Product Categories Before – check if the customer has ordered on a specific category in a set of given dates or how many orders were placed on set date
• Total Customer Spend On A Certain Product Category –  check the total amount the customer spent on a specific category for the last specified days
• Custom Taxonomy Exist In Cart – check if there is a specified custom taxonomy (eg, product variations) in the cart
• Within Hours After Customer Registered – check if the customer was registered within the specified hours
• Within Hours After Customer Last Order – check if the customer within the specified time after their last order
• Total Customer Spend – check the total amount the customer spent for the last specified days
• Shipping zone and region – check if the customer shipping address is within the specified region/zone.
• Number of Customer Orders – check the number of customer orders in a set of given dates
• Custom User Meta – check if the customer has a certain user meta
• Custom Cart Item Meta – check if there are products with the specified meta in the cart

So when you create a coupon with one or more of the conditions available above, Advanced Coupons will check if those conditions are true before applying the coupon in the cart. There’ll be a notice for the customer if they haven’t met the conditions. 

Advanced BOGO Deals

BOGO (Buy One Get One) deals are deals where you let your customers buy a certain number of products and they get another product as a result of that.

In the addition of the “Specific Products” Trigger and Apply Type that is available in the free version. You’ll have these additional trigger and apply types:

There are four ways for customers to “trigger” your BOGO deal, this is called the Trigger Type:

• Specific Products – customer must have specific products in the cart at specific quantities
• Any Combination of Products – customer can have any combination of a set of products as long as they meet the overall total quantity
• Product Categories – customer can have any products from the specified categories as long as they meet the overall total quantity
• Any Products – customer can have any products in the cart at specific quantities

For the “get” portion of a BOGO deal, you need to define the Apply Type:

• Specific Products – customer gets a specific product/s at specific quantities
• Any Combination of Products – customer can choose from any combination of the defined products
• Product Categories – customer can choose from any products in the specified categories
• Any Products – customer gets any products, by default the cheapest product will get the discount first

We also have an Additional Settings section where you can set your BOGO deals to be applied “Only Once” or “Repeatedly”. If you choose “Repeatedly”, you have the option to limit the deal to a certain number or make it unlimited.

Cashbacks

Aside from giving discounts and free items, we also have a coupon that allows your customers to receive cashback in terms of store credits. These store credits can be used for future purchases in your store.

We offer two types of earning cashback:

• Percentage cashback – cashback earned depends on the percentage of the purchase amount
• Fixed cashback – cashback earned is a fixed amount regardless of the purchase total

Add Products

You can automatically add specific products to the cart when a coupon applies by using the Add Products feature. You’ll have the option to override the pricing of these products with a price override that you define, a percentage-based discount, or a fixed discount amount.

This works hand-in-hand with the Cart Conditions feature, meaning you can restrict it so the coupon can only be applied when a certain other product is in the cart for example.

Here’s a great guide on how to give away free products with a purchase in WooCommerce that might help.

Scheduler

You can schedule coupons with a specific start date and end date and show a nice notice message when they attempt to use the coupon outside of those times.

With the scheduler, you are also able to set a time when the coupons can be used.

One-Click Apply Notifications

You can make coupons that are applied by clicking a notice message on the cart. We call these One-Click Apply Notifications.

This ensures that your customer won’t miss a deal they are eligible for that you are currently running and will boost your sales.

Before the notice will show, the Cart Conditions of the coupon must be true. This means the notification will only show once the customer qualifies.

Payment Method Restrictions

You may now restrict the payment methods for a coupon. You can either select “allowed” or “disallowed” and add in the Payment Methods that you wish to restrict or use.

Auto Apply Coupon

You can make an auto-applied coupon to the cart when the customer has met all conditions.

You can check our article here to compare the One-Click Apply Notification and Auto-Apply Coupons.

Coupon Priority

There are times when you want a coupon to be run first before the other coupons are applied. For example, Coupon A has a fixed discount of $50 and Coupon B has a percent discount of 50%

The user’s cart cost $100, if he/she use both coupons chances are they will be getting the product for free because 50% of 100 is 50, and with the fixed discount it would be 50-50.

To enable this simply go to Coupons > Settings > Modules and enable the Sort Coupons in Cart

Then go to Woocommerce > Settings > General and enable the Calculate coupon discounts sequentially

Virtual Coupons

You can coupons in bulk, these created coupons follow the parent or the restrictions of the main coupon.

You can learn more about it here: How to use Virtual Coupons (Bulk Coupons) – Advanced Coupons (advancedcouponsplugin.com)

Shipping Overrides

Get more creative with your shipping discounts beyond just your usual “free shipping” offer by using a shipping override. This lets you give a coupon that can override any specific shipping method you set.

Give short term discounts on express shipping, discount specific carriers under some conditions, discount shipping methods for certain user types, or on their first or second order. There are lots of ways to have fun with this.

Help & Support

We have a dedicated support team for Advanced Coupons who know our products, WooCommerce, and the industry very well. You’re welcome to make use of their expertise at any time, worldwide.

If you are an existing customer please go to the support ticket request form and send us a message.

If you are a free plugin user, please send us a support request on the forum, we actively monitor the WordPress.org support forums for the free plugin and help our users there as best as we can.