<h2>Extend or Automate your Coupons with WooCommerce URL Coupons</h2>
<p>The <strong>URL Coupons by SkyVerge</strong> extension allows you to add a unique URL to any coupon in your WooCommerce store. When this URL is used or clicked on, it automatically applies the coupon discount and can (optionally) add products to the customer’s shopping cart.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5793932" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-url-coupons-how-it-works.png?w=620" alt="URL coupon applied notice" width="620" height="252" /></p>
<p>URL coupons gives you the perfect way to make your print advertising actionable, or you can also help customers remember coupons so that they actually complete purchases. Measure the success of your pay-per-click ad campaigns by using a coupon URL, or use the plugin to only allow URL coupons.</p>
<h3>Increase Conversions by Removing Coupon Fields</h3>
<p>Studies from major analytics companies like <em>KISSmetrics</em> have shown that <a href="https://blog.kissmetrics.com/the-one-little-box/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coupon boxes are conversion killers</a>. Customers leave your site to search for coupons, and may not return. URL coupons gives you the flexibility to be your <strong>only coupon method</strong>.</p>
<p>You can allow the plugin to hide your coupon code fields in the cart and/or checkout so that only URL coupons can be used. This way, customers with coupons automatically have them applied by visiting your URL, while other customers never leave to go coupon hunting.</p>
<figure id="attachment_5793933" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5793933" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5793933" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-url-coupons-hide-fields-settings.png?w=620" alt="URL Coupons Hide Coupon Fields" width="620" height="270" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5793933" class="wp-caption-text">Hide Coupons Setting</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Automatically Apply Coupons for Visitors</h3>
<p>You can use the URL of an existing page or post on your site to trigger coupons. This means that you can trigger a coupon for anyone who reads a particular blog post or visits your landing page. This is a great way to reward your fans, brand loyalists, or customers that interact with you blog by providing an automatic discount.</p>
<h3>Redirect customers after coupon application</h3>
<p>You can redirect customers if you choose once they’ve visited a coupon URL. This allows you to optionally add products to the cart when the URL is visited and immediately send customers somewhere, such as the cart or checkout. This reduces as many barriers to purchasing as possible, and can even be used with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-one-page-checkout/">WooCommerce One Page Checkout</a> for a completely seamless, one-page coupon application and purchasing experience.</p>
<h3>Personalize Your Coupon URLs to Reward Customers</h3>
<p>You can use a generic coupon URL, such as <code>mystore.com/coupon/thanks</code>, that will apply a “thank you” coupon. However, since this coupon URL doesn’t use a trailing slash, you can also use this to personalize the experience for your customers, as the URLs <code>mystore.com/coupon/thanks-john</code> or <code>mystore.com/coupon/thanksjane</code> will also work for this coupon.</p>
<p>You can also disable this behavior by using a trailing slash like <code>mystore.com/coupon/thanks/</code> if you’d prefer to use one definite URL for coupons instead.</p>
<p>Other Ways to Elevate Your Coupons</p>
<ul>
<li>use a unique URL or QR code on business cards to reward potential clients for checking in on you with a discount.</li>
<li>make it easier for current customers to share your products or services by simply giving them a link to send to their friends so they visit your site and get a discount at the same time!</li>
<li>prevent coupon hunting by only allowing URL coupons to be used.</li>
<li>give out personalized URL coupons, such as mysite.com/thanks-jen, to connect with your customers.</li>
<li>automatically apply coupons for customers who visit a particular page or post.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key WooCommerce URL Coupons Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Set a unique URL for a coupon that applies the coupon when the URL is visited</li>
<li>Optionally set one or more products that will be added to the customer’s cart when the unique URL is visited</li>
<li>Control if and where the customer is redirected to after visiting the URL</li>
<li>Track and increase conversions from your online and print advertisements</li>
<li>Improve conversions by automating action when the customer clicks</li>
<li>Help current customers remember, share, and use coupons</li>
<li>Optionally hide other coupon application methods</li>
<li>Supports Smart Coupons extension CSV coupon exports</li>
<li>Use WooCommerce One Page Checkout with URL coupons to provide a complete one-page coupon application and purchasing experience. <sup><strong>NEW</strong></sup></li>
<li><strong>Reduce purchase barriers</strong> by applying discounts and adding items to the cart automatically</li>
<li>Set coupon minimum amounts, expiration dates, or usage limits</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_5793935" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5793935" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5793935" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/woocommerce-url-coupons-new-coupon.png?w=620" alt="new URL Coupon settings" width="620" height="403" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5793935" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Set a Unique URL and other Coupon Options</em></figcaption></figure>
<p>Stop customers from <strong>abandoning</strong> your checkout to go coupon hunting. <strong>Improve conversions</strong> of your advertising campaigns by automating discounts to encourage purchasing. Help current customers <strong>access and share the discounts</strong> you offer. <strong>Automatically apply coupons</strong> for page or post visitors to provide “easter eggs” and rewards. URL Coupons can help you integrate your coupons throughout your site and provide advanced ways to use them.</p>
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Buy this extension 🙂</li>
<li>Download and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Setup a Coupon under WooCommerce > Coupon</li>
<li>Add a unique URL to the coupon and start using the new link in your marketing.</li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy more efficient advertising and coupon handling!</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Need any more reason to buy? When you purchase a SkyVerge-developed extension, you’re getting the highest quality extensions for your WooCommerce store. Gain peace of mind by knowing that when you purchase our products, your store’s performance is as important to us as it is to you.</em></p>
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URL Coupons

<p>Add a unique URL to a coupon code to automatically apply discounts and (optionally) add products to the customer’s cart.</p>

<p>Want to offer exclusive, automatic and targeted coupon discounts for your customers? That’s where <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/">WooCommerce Group Coupons</a> will help. This extension for WooCommerce uses the free <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin and WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">roles</a> to control the validity of coupons.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<h3><img class="wp-image-3154875 alignleft" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/apply-to-groups.png" alt="Automatically apply Coupons to Group Members" width="128" height="128" />Apply Coupons Automatically</h3>
<p>New coupon features add the possibility to apply coupons automatically for group members. This allows to have discounts applied for certain customer groups.</p>
<p>It is very convenient to have discounts applied automatically for certain user groups. This covers any cases ranging from applying a promotional discount automatically to any registered user, to granting automatic discounts to specific user groups like distributors, volume clients, etc. It can also be combined with another features provided by this extension to assure that coupons can only be used by certain groups.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3><img class="wp-image-3154867 alignleft" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/restrict-to-groups.png" alt="Restrict Coupons to Group Members" width="128" height="128" />Restrict Coupons by Group</h3>
<p>This new feature provided by the extension allows to restrict coupons to be used only by group members. This adds the possibility to control who is allowed to use coupons by their group membership.</p>
<p>Coupons can be restricted to one or more groups and this feature can be combined with the automatic application of coupons per group.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-3154878" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/exclude-groups.png" alt="Exclude Groups from using Coupons" width="128" height="128" />Exclude Members</h3>
<p>Another useful feature provided by this extension is the option to exclude group members from using certain coupons. This allows to effectively exclude specific groups from using a coupon.</p>
<p>With this feature, you can for example run promotions for new customers and exclude existing customers. You can also allow some more privileged groups to have access to more discounts than others.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-3154872" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/restrict-to-roles.png" alt="Restrict Coupons to WordPress Roles" width="128" height="128" />Restrict Coupons by Role</h3>
<p>This new feature provided by the extension allows to restrict coupons to specific WordPress user roles. It adds the possibility to control who is allowed to use a coupon based on their role.</p>
<p>For example, you could grant a promotional discount to existing customers with the Customer role, while normal registered users would not be able to use it.</p>
<p> </p>
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-216802" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WooCommerce_Group_Coupons_Showing_Discount.png" alt="Display pretty coupons" width="190" height="128" />Display Pretty Coupons</h3>
<p>The extension also provides a new shortcode to show the coupons handled by the extension to your customers.</p>
<p>The coupons are displayed when valid based on the user account, coupon settings and the shortcode settings.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>With the above features, the extension provides essential new features for coupons, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Exclusive discount coupons for group members with the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin</li>
<li>Exclusive discount coupons for roles</li>
<li>Automatic discounts for group members</li>
<li>Discount target groups and roles at a glimpse</li>
<li>Pretty coupons via shortcodes</li>
<li>Helps to cover many promotional and marketing cases</li>
</ul>
<h2>Examples and Screenshots</h2>
<h3>A restricted Coupon for Registered Users</h3>
<p>This example shows the settings used for a coupon that is limited to registered users and applied automatically for them. This means that the coupon will be applied automatically for any existing user account, without the need for the customer to input the coupon code at checkout explicitly. In this example, we also exclude any member of the Test group from using the coupon.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-3154960 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/registered-group-coupon-excluding-test-group.png" alt="Registered group Coupon excluding Test group" width="980" height="650" /></p>
<h3>An automatic Coupon for Distributors</h3>
<p>In this example you can see the settings used for a coupon that is limited and applied automatically for two distributor groups.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154966" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/distributor-groups.png" alt="Coupon settings for distributor groups" width="980" height="399" /></p>
<h3>A Coupon limited to certain Groups</h3>
<p>Here we have an example with settings for a coupon that is restricted to two groups, Level 1 and Level 2.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154972" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/level-groups.png" alt="" width="980" height="259" /></p>
<h3>A Coupon limited to Customers</h3>
<p>This example shows the settings used for a coupon that can only be used by those who have the Customer role.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154975" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/customer-role.png" alt="Settings for a coupon restricted to the Customer role" width="980" height="271" /></p>
<h3>Extension Settings</h3>
<p>The extension provides some very easy to control settings. Here you can also see that we have the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin installed, which allows to use the coupon settings related to groups.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154976" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/group-coupons-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="660" /></p>

Group Coupons

<p>Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</p>

URL Coupons vs Group Coupons