From WHMCS Documentation
Promotions can be setup to offer discounts on your Products & Services. Discounts cannot currently be offered on Product Addons or Domains.
See also Common Promotions
[edit] Types of promotions that can be offered
- One Time Discounts
- Recurring Discounts
- Monetary Discounts (eg. $5 Off)
- Percentage Discounts (eg. 20% Off)
- Apply to Specific Products/Addons/Domain TLDs
- Apply to Specific Billing Cycles or Registration Periods
- Apply Once per Order or to All Applicable Items in Cart
- Valid for New Signups Only
[edit] How to create a new promotion
- Begin by going to Configuration > Promotions
- Click the Add New link at the top of the page
- You must enter a promotion code - this is the code that customers will need to enter on the order form to receive the discount
- You can then choose the promotion type (One Time or Recurring), Discount Method (Percentage or Money Value) and Value (amount of the discount - number only)
- Next you need to select what products/addons/domain TLDs the promotion applies to and what billing cycles/registration periods are required for it to be applied
- The expiration date field is optional - if filled out, the coupon will stop working on the day chosen
- The final 2 checkboxes allow you to specify if the promotion can be used by existing users or only new signups and if the promotion should only be applied once per order or to all the items that are applicable for it in the cart.
[edit] Limiting Usage
With WHMCS, you can set the maximum number of times a promotion can be used. You do this as follows:
- Go to Configuration > Promotions
- Locate the promotion you want to limit the usage of and click the edit icon next to it
- In the Maximum Uses field, enter the number of uses that you want to allow (the number of times that the promotion has already been used will be shown below the field)
- For unlimited uses, enter the value zero
- Once complete, simply click the Save Changes button
[edit] Promotion Links
You can give links out to users that will automatically apply a certain promotion code to their order if it applies. To do that, simply use a link like the one below:
cart.php?promocode=TEST OR cart.php?a=add&pid=1&promocode=TEST
Both of the above will apply the promotion code "TEST" to the order. With the first link, the user can choose the package they want and with the second they are taken straight to step 2 of the order process with product id 1 selected.
