coreFORCE Advanced- Products: Setting up Holiday Promotions

As the holidays draw near, it’s an ideal time to revisit your holiday markup strategies! In this article, we’ll cover how to offer promotional codes or coupons to your customers and how to adjust your pricing markup for the season.

Promotional Code

  1. 1. Setting up a Promotion code

    We'll start here with establishing a promotion code in which customers can input at checkout

    Setting up a Promotion code
  2. 2. Click on Promotions

    Click on Promotions
  3. 3. Click on Promotions

    Click on Promotions
  4. 4. Click on ADD

    Click on ADD
  5. 5. Give your promotion a name

    Give your promotion a name
  6. 6. Type in your promotional code

    This code is what your customers will enter at checkout.

    Type in your promotional code
  7. 7. Start Date

    Start date will be the very first day this code will be usable at checkout. This is useful for limited run seasonal coupons!

    Start Date
  8. 8. Expiration Date

    This will be the final day the promotional code will be able to be used at checkout

    Expiration Date
  9. 9. Maximum per email/user

    If you would like a promotion to be once per customer all you will need to do is input a 1 into this field!

    Maximum per email/user
  10. 10. Click on Resources

    Click on Resources
  11. 11. Resources

    If you would prefer you are able to establish one time use codes via "Generate One-Time Codes" versus giving out a promotional code, you will be prompted with how many codes you'd like to generate!

    Resources
  12. 12. Click on Audience

    Click on Audience
  13. 13. Audience

    Audience will allow you to curate which contact types/user types are able to utilize your promotion

    Audience
  14. 14. Click on Purchases

    Click on Purchases
  15. 15. Purchases

    Purchases will add in an extra layer where specific products will need to have been ordered in the past to be eligible for this promotion

    Purchases
  16. 16. Click on Requirements

    Click on Requirements
  17. 17. Requirements

    Requirements is where we can establish items that need to be in the cart for this code to work. If you would like this to work with any cart leave this blank.

    Please note any parameters input here will need to all be satisfied for the promotion to be utilized.

    Requirements
  18. 18. Exclusions - Requirements

    Exclusions will allow us to fine tune our requirements field to exclude certain products, for example we can establish a requirement of a Firearms department but exclude certain products in the firearms department from that requirement

    Exclusions - Requirements
  19. 19. Click on Exclusions

    Click on Exclusions
  20. 20. Rewards

    Rewards is where we can establish discounts given for this promotion code

    Rewards
  21. 21. Order Discount Amount

    Order Discount Amount will be a flat $ amount off, example "5" in this field will yield $5 off of the cart total

    Order Discount Amount
  22. 22. Order Discount Percent

    Order Discount Percent is a percentage of the cart total, example "5" is 5% of the cart total

    Order Discount Percent
  23. 23. Exclusions - Rewards

    Exclusions will allow us to fine tune our rewards field to exclude certain products, for example we can establish a reward of the Firearms department for 10% off but exclude certain products in the firearms department from that reward and they will remain their normal price.

    Exclusions - Rewards
  24. 24. Click on Exclusions

    Click on Exclusions

Pricing Structures

  1. 25. Click on Pricing

    Click on Pricing
  2. 26. Click on Pricing Structures

    Click on Pricing Structures
  3. 27. Click on ADD

    Click on ADD
  4. 28. Give your pricing structure a name!

    Give your pricing structure a name!
  5. 29. Click on your desired field

    We'll use Department(s) for this example but you can establish this structure for Categories, Manufacturers and Specific Products as well!

    Click on your desired field
  6. 30. Click on your desired department

    We'll use Firearms for this example

    Click on your desired department
  7. 31. Select your calculation type

    coreFORCE supports Markup, Discount, and Margin pricing. We'll use Markup here

    Select your calculation type
  8. 32. Type in your markup percentage

    Type in your markup percentage