For all of you looking to use promo codes....
Using the new conditional logic, I've implemented a basic promo code system. I create a product with a negative dollar amount and show it if the promo code field equals a given value. It's manual, but works for me!
How do you make the promo code field?
Is it possible to make the value a word?
This could be the coupon work around everyone is looking for in gravity forms.
on the negative product I set a condition to show when the promo code field equaled a specific value. I set the value as the promo code such as freeship20. You can use any alphanumeric value.
Simple coupon work around.
Thanks brianmayer
Step 1:
Create a "Single Line Text" field.
name it Enter Coupon Code (or whatever field name you want)
Step 2:
Create A "Product" field under the pricing tab.
Name it "Product without coupon" (for illustration purposes)
Set the price to $100
Disable Quantity Field
Enable Conditional Logic
Setup for "Hide" this field if "All" of the following match
Select "Enter Coupon Code" from the drop down menu and select "is".
then enter testcoupon in the text field.
Step 3:
Create another "Product" field under the pricing tab.
Name it "Product with coupon" (for illustration purposes)
Set the price to $90 or a negative amount
(This is the discounted price or 10% off or $10 off or whatever you are promoting)
Disable Quantity Field
Enable Conditional Logic
Setup "Show" this field if "All" of the following match
Select "Enter Coupon Code" from the drop down menu and select "is".
then enter testcoupon (for illustrations purposes) in the text field.
Thats it : ) Entering the coupon will change the price with an animation. This has nothing to do with paypal, only the final product showing will be taken to checkout.
The long awaited simple coupon workaround : )
More can be done with this, just think...
Great workaround! But how would this work for quantities? Would only $10 be taken off a $300 order? Is there any way to do a percentage?
Well the basic idea is just an illusion that the promo code is giving you a discount (to the customers eye) when in reality the products are just switching places. So technically you can set the discounted price to anything you were promoting, So for example if you wanted to do 50% of $1488 set the first product to $1488 and the second product to $744 (50% off) and entering a coupon code will hide $1488 and show $744.
cthorpe
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While this works, the coupon is visible in plain text in the source code. That is, obviously, not ideal.
For example, with a coupon of 10off, you can find this in the source:
[{"fieldId":"2","operator":"is","value":"10off"}]}
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red
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Agree that showing coupon codes in the source code is not ideal. Was able to work out a way to add valid codes as a radio button selections in the form editor, set it to admin-only, and retrieve them with ajax for validation against a coupon code input.
Any feedback on ways to improve on this approach appreciated!
Was blocked from posting my outline of steps, so did a pastebin of the steps here:
http://pastebin.com/Bi577HTi
Pastebin links to code in step 3 and 4.
Unresolved issues:
If post the form and there are errors, coupon code field won't update when edited
red
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When I went to make the above changes live, worked fine with a pay by check option, but found that PayPal Standard (using the gf add-on) doesn't like negative numbers.
Found this:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_paypal_query
but since I'm also using early bird discounts and sometimes passing up to 3 negative values, it didn't work for this, it was only taking off the last value.
So used the idea of the PayPal example hook and function, but redid it to remove all negative values from the query string. It checks if there are negative values, and if so, combines all items it one 'registration total' with a grand total. So looks like an aggregate but is becoming one product. If there aren't any negative values, it just sends on as usual.
Here's the code: http://pastebin.com/FwTSNrT5
If there's a better way to approach this, please post back!
red
Member
Actually, completely reworked this. Now, it takes advantage of PayPal's discount_amount_cart field.
Doesn't compile into one 'Registration Total' item. Instead:
- keeps all non-negative items as is
- adds up discount and coupon items
- clears out those discount and coupon items and $0 value items from the cart
- sends to PayPal only non-negative cart items and one grand total discount amount for the cart
This way you still get itemized checkouts and receipts and can show the discount separate, without passing negative numbers.
Slightly kludgey, works great. My kinda solution, there.
red
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The PayPal add-on supports discount fields now, so the update_paypal_query is no longer necessary to add to the theme's functions file when using PayPal. The promo code / coupon code stuff outlined above that still functions as needed.
