1ShoppingCart Coupon Trick
I received an email from a good friend of mine and most of you may know her. Her name is Christina Hills and she is the ShoppingCart Queen.
She discovered a new coupon trick that makes life much easier for your customers!
Here is how it works:
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The Original Way
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Setup a coupon inside your 1ShoppingCart™ account. Here are the steps to do this:
- Login into your 1ShoppingCart™ account
- Scroll over ‘Products’ and click on ‘Coupons’
- Click ‘Create New Coupon’ and create your new coupon. Name it whatever you like but for our example I’m going to name mine ‘EXPERT’
- Click the ‘Save’ button
Just like that your coupon is created.
The customer normally enters the coupon code ‘EXPERT’ on the order form in the box called ‘Coupon code (optional)’, and clicks the ‘apply’ button.
BUT, there’s an easier way!
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The Easier Way
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You can have a link that a person clicks that will drop the coupon into their shopping cart for them, instead of them having to enter the coupon code themselves.
Here’s what you do:
Create an Ad Tracker. To create an Ad Tracker follow these steps.
- Scroll over ‘Email & Marketing,’ then over ‘Ad Tracker’ and click ‘Create New Ad Tracker’
- Setup the Ad Tracker just the way you want it but be sure to have the ‘Destination URL 1′ set to your Product Link – Checkout URL of the product you want to sell.
- Click Save.
- Grab the Ad Tracker ID. This number is the last 6 numbers of the ‘Ad Track Campaign Link URL’ (the numbers after “AdID=”)(Example: http://www.on2url.com/app/adtrack.asp?MerchantID=111901&AdID=447700, your Ad Tracker ID would be 447700)
- Create a coupon by following the steps above with the same ad tracking ID as the ‘Coupon code’.
When the customer clicks on the adtracker, it will take them directly to the shopping cart and drop the coupon code into their basket, so they do NOT have to enter it manually.
It blends the functionality of AdTrackers and Coupons together!
Hope you enjoyed today’s lesson and we will talk soon!
Is this still working? I tried to follow the steps, but didn’t appear to work. Is there not a way to append onto the end of the 1SC link the coupon code using the &ID=EXPERTS? I’m just not sure what the ID is for their coupon code field.
Hi Sara,
This is still working great. Once you set this up, you won’t need to give out a coupon code as it’s built right into the ad tracker link. All you need to do is send out the ad tracker link and once the visitor clicks that link the coupon will be applied automatically to your shopping cart. Please try the directions step-by-step above and it should work great. If not, let me know where you got stuck and I will help you out.
Nice, this worked really easy for me. Thanks for the tip, great site. I can’t wait to setup that default shipping for US/International orders.
How do you create single use coupons on one shopping cart I need to create 1000 single use coupons
Hi Sam,
Are you talking about creating single “user” coupons? If so, there is not a way to import coupons. So unfortunately the only way around this would be to create one coupon at a time.
Hope that helps,
Tyler
slightly off topic: is there a way to change when coupons are implemented in the checkout?
for me, right now, coupons are activated against the entire amount (product cost, shipping, taxes) but I only want a discount on the retail of my products. I cannot find the option to alter the timing and I am slowly (quickly?) going crazy.
Please help.
Hi James,
How do you have the coupons setup? Are they product, category or order based?
Once I have a little more information I think I can set you on the right path from going crazy.
All the best,
Tyler