adding coupons to powerstore

Dear all,

I am creating a store with Powerstore2. My client asked for a coupon system. I also own e-cart. How long would it take an average semi-newbie to implement such functionality (a range is fine)?

Since you have eCart, you should be able to modify the eCart object to add coupons.

We have a tutorial on this page:

ecart/

under solution recipes and it is called "Creating a Coupon system for your eCart store (Interactive Tutorial)"

which could help you get started.

Is that involving promotional codes?

Is there also a way to offer free shipping? meaning, a promotion code to have it ignore the shipping costs?

EDIT: Sorry, I should've checked out the support pages before asking. I do see that you can set it to offer free shipping if the cart value is over a certain value. That sort of answers my question. So I assume you can make the trigger a promotional code?

Correct, Promotional Code will act similar to having a Coupon.

Hi Dani,

Thanks for the tips. I followed the tutorial for eCart 4.0 (I have SuperSuite with eCart v4.5 & PowerStore 2) and went through the process however I assume that I am close but no cigar. The tut was slightly different to eCart v4.5

I've pasted some of the code that eCart generates - can you give me a suggestion on what to look for?

On cart.php page
line 397 - 399
<h3><br />
Enter Promotional Codes Below </h3>
<form action="" method="get" name="CouponCode"><input name="txtPromoCode" type="text" /></<input name="Button" type="Submit" />form>

line 9 - 14
<?php
if (!session_id()) session_start();
if((((isset($_GET["txtPromoCode"]))?$_GET["txtPromoCode"]:"") != "")) {
$_SESSION["PromoCode"] = "".((isset($_GET["txtPromoCode"]))?$_GET["txtPromoCode"]:"") ."";
}
?>

Thanks, Mark.
www.uberbean.com

It looks like it is just a syntax error:

replace this line:
<form action="" method="get" name="CouponCode"><input name="txtPromoCode" type="text" /></<input name="Button" type="Submit" />form>

with:

<form action="" method="get" name="CouponCode"><input name="txtPromoCode" type="text" /><input name="Button" type="Submit" /></form>

Hi Dani,

Thanks for that - its fixed up the page view. The cart.php page now doesn't proceed to checkout.php and there doesn't appear to be a reduction in price shown on this page - should it show up here or the confirm.php page?

I've attached the cart.php for your ref.

Thanks, Mark.

I have opened a support ticket to further debug this issue:

supporthistory.php

Hi Dani,

I've updated the ticket and attached the required details.

Thanks, Mark.