Publishing Panel: Coupon and Discount Settings
PUBNiTO platform offers a comprehensive discount scheme for books in its stores. Due to the nature of ePUB3 books which are heavily used by educational and training institutes, our discount is based on issuing coupons.
A coupon is a string of letters and numbers which is unique and may only be produced by PUBNiTO. Its use and lifetime are all determined when it is defined.
Publishin Panel admins and Platform owners are able to define coupons in collaboration with their vendors. Coupons can be either given to pre-determined set of users (such as students of a school) or be advertised in various social media channels.
The following is a step-by-step guide to define and use coupons.
Step 1: Create a Discount
Define Discount
Go to your PUBNiTO Book Store Administrator Panel (you should have admin or owner access)
Select Discounts from the side menu.
Click on Create New Discount
Start adding a title for your discount
Add a description
How Much Discount?
Next you need to decide how much discount you wish to give.
Whose Share?
Next, you need to decide who bears the cost of discount.
When?
Next, you need to decide when the discount starts and when it finishes.
How Many?
Last, you will define how many coupons to be created, and how many times each coupon can be used.
Coupon Count
You can decide number of coupons that you wish to be created. Of course, you need to have more than zero.
Coupon Limit
Decide how many times each coupon can be applied.
If you leave this empty, it is similar to putting 1
Finished creating a Discount
You are now done with this step. Click on Save Discount
Step 2: Add Books to be Discounted
Discounted Books
You can decide which books may receive the discount, if you wish. If you do not wish to restrict the discount to specific books, then you can skip this step.
Click on Discounts books items from the Discount side menu
Click on Add Discount Book Items
This will open the following windows which lets you pick a book, and add it as a discounted item.
Repeat this process to add more books, if required.
Step 3: Add Book Bundles to be Discounted
In this step, you can do as per step 2, but this time add book bundles.
Step 4: Restrict Discount to Certain Users
You can decide whether a discount is for all users, or certain users. For example, you may wish to offer a textbook to only students of a specific grade in a high school. You can list these students as pre-determined users of the discount.
Alternatively, you can skip this step, and keep the discount open to all users.
Add discount user items
Click on Discounts users in the Discount side menu
Click on Add discount user Items
Follow as shown in these images to add one or more users.
Step 5: Check and Manage Coupons
This is the final step. Here you can see list of coupons that you have created, add to them, and copy to distribute them.
Check Coupons
Click on the Coupons in the Discount side menu
In the main window, you will see
- Coupon code or codes. You can copy this or these and distribute them.
- Number of coupons
- Number of used coupons
- Number of remaining coupons
You can click on the user icon on the right-hand side to see who, if any user has already used coupons.
Or click on delete to delete the coupon.
WARNING: YOU MAY ONLY DELETE OR EDIT A COUPON BEFORE ANYONE USES IT
Add Discount Coupon Item
In our example, we have only added one coupon, which can be applied 1000 times. However, we may add to this and create more of the same coupon.
In the following we are adding 5 more coupons, and thus end up with having 6 coupons, and each may be used up to 1000 times.
See in Action
Use Coupon
The next few images show that a user is buying a book and uses the coupon and successfully received the discount.
Check Coupons List
Now, check list of coupons and see that a coupon has been used once and even see who has used it.
Delete or Modify Coupons and Items
So long as no one has used a coupon for the first time, elements of the coupon as listed in the image can be edited or deleted.
As soon as first use of the coupon is made, you can no longer change any of its features.
However,
you can always refer to the main list of discounts, per below and
deactivate a discount and stop its further use. A deactivated discount
can be activated in future.
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