This feature maybe important to you if you want to promote your products by offering discount coupon codes. The best shopping cart plugin in giving you the ability to manage coupon codes in your store is Shopp.
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Shopp
Shopp has extensive discount coupon codes options. In Shopp, coupons are given the more descriptive name, "promotions". You can create "percentage off", "amount off", "free shipping", or "buy x, get y free" type of promotion.
You set a start and end date for each promotion and you can create conditions where the promotions apply. You can create promotions for individual products, order amount, order quantity, and more.
Shopp
The discounts feature is called ‘Promotions’ in Shopp and is very thoughtfully designed. You can set 4 types of discounts: percentage, fixed amount, free shipping, and ‘Buy X Get Y Free’ type. You can select to apply the discount to a catalog item, shopping cart subtotal or to each cart item.
Furthermore, you can set a bunch of rules on when the discount could be applied. This is where the discount feature really shines. You can set a variety of rules, e.g. only apply a particular discount when the ‘Cart Total’ exceeds $150 and the ‘Total quantity’ in the cart is larger then 10.
The discount feature also allows you to set the promotion dates, which will enable you to create a number of promotions in advance that will automatically start and end at the specified date.
Cart66
Cart66 gives you the ability to offer discount coupon codes in your online store. The coupons can either be fixed price or a percentage of the total amount (excluding shipping & handling charges). You can also specify the minimum order amount for accepting coupons.
GetShopped (WP e-Commerce)
GetShopped offers coupons feature to allow discounts to the customers. There are 3 type of discounts that can be applied – percentage discount, fixed amount discount and free shipping. You can also set start and end date when the coupon should be applied.
One of the other interesting features is the ability to add rules on when each coupon should be applied. For example, you could add a rule to a coupon which specifies that the coupon is only to be applied if the cart total exceeds a certain amount, or another rule that says that the coupon is only to be applied when the product name contains ‘apparel’. You can combine multiple rules for each coupon.
eShop
eShop allows you to provide discount coupon codes to customers. The coupons can be limited by time or number of uses. The coupon codes are a percentage of the total order amount. They cannot be a fixed price. And you can't have a per-product coupon codes.
MarketPress
MarketPress gives you the ability to offer discount coupons at your store. The coupons you create could be applied to any order. You can create a percentage coupon or a fixed amount coupon. You can set a start and an expiration date for each coupon. And you can set a limit to the number of times a coupon can be used.
Tribulant Shopping Cart
While Tribulant Shopping Cart does support coupon codes, it's not as flexible as some of the other plugins, such as Shopp.
You can create a fixed amount or percentage discount and set an expiration date for it. And you can also limit the number of times it can be used. The discount is applied to the cart total.
Market Theme
It is not possible to offer discount coupon codes for products sold through Market Theme.
YAK
In YAK you can create various types of promotion codes. The discounts can either be percentages or fixed amounts. The discounts can be applied to shipping only, or product price only. You can specify it so that the discount only applies after the cart contents quantity or value exceeds a certain threshold. Each promotion can also have an expiration date.
ShopperPress
ShopperPress doesn't have any means of creating or managing coupon codes.
DukaPress
DukaPress allows you to add multiple discount codes. The discount is a percentage -- not a fixed amount. And it applies to the order as a whole. There are no per-product discount codes.
wpStoreCart
wpStoreCart support coupon codes, but it's limited. For example, you cannot have a percentage discount code, and you cannot have a coupon per order. Coupons apply to products, not orders.
Templatic Ecommerce
Templatic Ecommerce offers basic coupon code management. You can only specify the coupon name, whether it's a percentage or a fixed amount, and the discount.
Jigoshop
Jigoshop enables you to create and manage coupons in an easy fashion. Coupons can be created to be passed out to customers to give them specific discounts. Coupons can be either fixed or set as a percentage amount, and can be applied to a whole cart, or specific products.
Jigoshop has 4 types of valid coupon types:
a. Cart Discount
b. Cart % Discount
c. Product Discount
d. Product % Discount
Zingiri Web Shop
Zingiri Web Shop gives you the ability to offer discount coupon codes in your online store. It also automatically creates the coupon codes for you, saving you the hassle of creating it yourself, which many times results in duplicate coupon codes. You can specify coupon prices either as a fixed price or as a percentage of the total amount (excluding shipping, taxes & handling charges).
TheCartPress
TheCartPress does not come with coupon code management. Rather you need to install their coupon and discount extension plugin to avail of the feature. Two of the plugins are
a. http://extend.thecartpress.com/ecommerce-plugins/
b. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/discounts-for-thecartpress/
WP Online Store
WP Online Store has a good and exceptionally flexible facility to add discount and coupon codes. Discounts can be applied to individual products, group of products, categories, individual customers or order total. Discounts can be set to be applied only when a certain minimum, order has been purchased. You can also provide an expiry date for a particular discount. When applying discounts to entire categories you can select to exclude particular products from the categories. In summary, my favorite discount and coupon implementation in any ecommerce plugin until now.
