coreFORCE Advanced - Memberships: Creating a Promotion for No Membership Startup Fee

In the admin backend of coreFORCE, navigate to the Products menu.

Locate the Promotions menu under the Products menu.

Now, select the Promotions submenu under the Promotions menu.

On the Promotions dashboard, you will see any established promotions. In this example, you can see that the 10% off Ammo promotion for our Commander Members is still active and established.

In the top right-hand corner, click the Add button to create a new promotion.

Establish an easily identifiable description for the promotion.

Establish a short Promotion Code for the promotion, as this will be provided to clients to enter on the checkout page to receive the discounted membership.

Note: If you are running a no-setup-fee special for all new sign-ups, you could set this promotion to Apply Automatically instead of requiring a code.

Your Start Date will default to today since the promotion is being created now. However, you can set an Expiration Date if you are creating this promotion for a specific event or sale with a defined timeframe.

Next, navigate to the Requirements tab of your promotion setup. Here, you will define the products that will qualify for this promotion.

Hit the plus box under the Product Requirements settings. This allows you to specify that the product must be in the shopping cart to qualify for this promotion.

In the Product drop-down, search for and select your defined Membership Startup Product.

In this example, the requirement specifies the Commander Membership Startup Fee product with a minimum quantity of 1. This means that the product must be present in the shopping cart at checkout for the promotion code or auto-applied code to be valid.

Note : This is for discounting a single product, but if the dealer wants to discount all startup products they'd need to use a product tag, product category or a product type for the Requirements section.

Next, navigate to the Rewards tab, where you can specify either a Flat Fee or a Discount Percentage to be applied to the startup fee.

For this example, I will apply an Order Discount of $100.00. Since the Commander Membership Startup Fee is originally $200.00, this promotion reduces the initial payment to $100.00, effectively waiving the startup fee for new signups.

Click on SAVE to finalize your new promotion.

Under the Memberships department on your customer-facing coreFORCE site, locate your Membership Startup item.

Note: If you are an admin, you will also see your Renewal items. However, by default, renewal products are marked as Internal Use Only, meaning your clients will not see them on their end.

Click Add to Cart to include the item on your checkout page.

Click Checkout Now to proceed to your checkout page.

Enter your Promo Code in the designated field.

Note: If the promotion was set to Apply Automatically, the discount will already be displayed.

Click the Apply Promotion Code checkbox if this is a manual promotion.

Your Order Summary will now update to reflect the applied discount.