Manage Promo Coupon Codes in Magento

Posted on February 22nd, 2016

Discount offers and promo codes are a few good ways to improve sales and reach the new audience. It also allows you to take advantage of events that might boost your sales. If you are a Magento user, You will find it easier to manage promotions and manage conditions for each promotion, coupon code, or promo code.

Magento has an in-built Promotions section to manage different types of Promotions. There are two types of Promotions in Magento. They are “Cart Price Rules” and “Catalog Price Rules”. Both of them are almost the same, except one allows you to manage conditions and environments for the cart, and another allows you to manage conditions for the products or categories.

In this tutorial, I will show you How to manage Promo codes or Coupon codes in Magento. We will cover “Catalog Price Rules” in this tutorial. The other one is almost the same, except it allows you to add different types of conditions. So, Let’s get started.

Manage Promo/Coupon codes in Magento

Log in to the admin panel of your Magento store. Then, click on the Marketing -> Promotions -> Catalog Price Rule option from the left sidebar. See the following screenshot for reference.

Manage Promo Codes in Magento - Step 1

On this page, you will see a complete list of all the Catalog price rules available on your store. To create a new rule, click on the “Add New Rule” button from the top-right corner of the page.

Manage Magento Promo Codes - Step 2

On this page, you will see 3 collapsible sections. They are “Rule information”, “Conditions” and “Actions”. In the first section, you have to fill up the form with information like Rule name, description, date range and similar.

In the second section, You have to set the conditions under which the Promo code can be applied. And, in the third section, You have to define the discount amount, or percentage and such things.

Once done with filling up the form, click on the “Save” button given at the top-right corner of the page to save changes.

Manage Magento Promo Codes - Step 3

So, this is how you can manage Promo codes in Magento. In this tutorial, we covered Catalog Price Rules. However, there is one more type of Price Rules that you can set for Cart. A customer can apply Cart Price Rules for the shopping cart instead of products from your inventory.

We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you have any questions, please use the comment section given below. If you are an active InterServer customer, feel free to contact InterServer support for quick help!

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