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Vouchers play an important role in your daily relationships with your customers. Typically, customers like two things when shopping:
- feeling Feeling special, unique.
- getting Getting good prices.
Both can be achieved with personalized discounts, and this is precisely where vouchers come into play – or more precisely, price rules, which is a new feature in PrestaShop 1.5.
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A credit slip is first and foremost a written proof that a product has been returned. Most of the time, the user can use it as a voucher. A voucher is a discount code which does not have to be tied to a merchandise return or a refund, and which can take many more forms than a simple credit slip:
You can apply a voucher to all customers, or a group of customers, or a single customer; you can set its expiration date; A cart rule is basically an advanced version of a voucher: in addition to what a voucher could do in PrestaShop 1.4, the cart rules system introduced in PrestaShop 1.5 enables you to:
In this user guide, "cart rule" and "voucher" are synonymous and interchangeable. |
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The creation form has three tabs, enabling you to precisely build new rules and vouchers.
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Information Tab
The first tab, "InformationsInformation", contains the rule's identifiers and main settings.
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The "Product selection" option brings a whole new form, and enables you to create not only per-product vouchers, by also per-categories, per-manufacturers, per-suppliers and even per-attribute. As a bonus, you can combine all these in order to expand your customer target as much as possible.
For instance, you can create automatic vouchers for your customer in the form "Buy at least 3 Apple product, get free shipping!"
This is really a tool within the cart rule too, and its configuration is quite specific. You can add as many product selection selections as needed, following this path:
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Product selections are separate: you can add as many as needed, and they won't influence each other. This enables you to create a whole range of products to which the cart rule will apply.
Actions Tab
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The third and last tab, "Actions", is where you choose what the discount actually consists of.
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The creation form page has two sectionsections, enabling to precisely build new rules.
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- Choose a category or any other type of selection, and then click on the "Add condition" button.
- The condition will appear in the condition group. You put many conditions in a condition group.
- Once a group is completed and you want to create a new condition group, click on the "Add new condition group".
- A new group will then appear, which you can fill in the same way.
By default, new conditions are added to the condition group that was created last. If you need to add conditions to a previous group, click on that group to highlight it, and then add your conditions.
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