Magento2: Hi - can we enable trigger coupon via URL in Magento 2?

[seansan]

Hi - can we enable trigger coupon via URL in Magento 2?

http://www.drewgillson.com/blog/how-to-apply-magento-coupon-codes-automatically/

see https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/120 which was closed too fast without reading the replies

[verklov]

@seansan, we created a ticket in the product backlog and the team will investigate on this. We will get back to you once we finish investigating it.

[verklov]

Assigning to @tkacheva.

[tkacheva]

@seansan, thank you for bringing up the topic. Could you provide examples when merchants will benefit from this feature?

[seansan]

Have a look @ the call mention + the link provided

Sometimes one offers a discount to a channel. or "Click here to apply discount"

very wanted

[vpelipenko]

Internal ticket: MAGETWO-23160

[tkacheva]

Thanks for the example. It's a valuable point! We will consider this feature in the promotion backlog

[mbrinton01]

Change in internal ticket to MAGETWO-38709

[mbrinton01]

@seansan we have made this change. You can test it:

• Create a price rule with a specific coupon code
• Use a URL link in the format: http://example.com/index.php/checkout/cart/CouponPost/coupon_code/couponcode
• Replace example.com and couponcode in the URL with your values

If you add a product to the cart that meets the conditions of the rule after entering from the URL, the rule will be applied and the user notified.

The rule conditions must be met in a single add to cart step. For example, consider a rule that has a condition that quantity must be > 1. If you enter through the URL with code and then add 1 to cart and add 1 to cart in two steps, the coupon will not be applied. We are looking at enhancing this feature to account for these cases.

[seansan]

I understand

So the "stored" cart coupon is not checked for indefinitely? but only the
first cart visit

BTW: great work!

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Mark Brinton [email protected]
wrote:

@seansan https://github.com/seansan we have made this change. You can
test it:

• Create a price rule with a specific coupon code
• Use a URL link in the format:
  http://example.com/index.php/checkout/cart/CouponPost/coupon_code/couponcode
• Replace example.com and couponcode in the URL with your values

If you add a product to the cart that meets the conditions of the rule
after entering from the URL, the rule will be applied and the user notified.

The rule conditions must be met in a single add to cart step. For example,
consider a rule that has a condition that quantity must be > 1. If you
enter through the URL with code and then add 1 to cart and add 1 to cart in
two steps, the coupon will not be applied. We are looking at enhancing this
feature to account for these cases.

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[mbrinton01]

You are correct. We are considering adding a feature called "persistent" coupons that would extend the current functionality.

[seansan]

Ok!

Sent from my iPhone.

On 27 Jul 2015, at 19:28, Mark Brinton [email protected] wrote:

You are correct. We are considering adding a feature called "persistent" coupons that would extend the current functionality.

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[seansan]

@verklov

I was browsing thru M2.3.1. but cant find this functionality.

• Is there a reference in the documentation?
• Can we turn it on/off via settings?

Did you implement the persistent function? This is quite important! It should handle the use cases for real customers ... often via email where they click a link, start with an empty cart ...might visit the empty cart ... then add a product .. but they may also first check a product add it to cart .. then go to cart .... ot they may add a product to cart, then remove it to cart, then add another product and go to cart
In all cases : the coupon code via the link should work and be applied

[seansan]

Reference to similar functionality https://marketplace.magento.com/wsnyc-module-couponlink.html

[seansan]

@mbrinton01

** Mark con you confirm this functionality is in 2.3.1?

** Also what is the result from below? This would be very good to have

You are correct. We are considering adding a feature called "persistent" coupons that would extend the current functionality.

** Another function we have seen before is to add a "redirect" variable. This way the link "http://example.com/index.php/checkout/cart/CouponPost/coupon_code/couponcode" would like "http://example.com/index.php/checkout/cart/CouponPost/coupon_code/couponcode?redirect=http://example.com" => in this case the coupn would be applied, the customer would be redirected to the page http://example.com and a message would be shown "Coupon code was activated"

[mbrinton01]

Adding @tkacheva as this relates to promotions

[crankycyclops]

I've implemented this functionality in a free and open source module. If anyone wants to use it in the meantime until this is fully implemented by the Magento team, you can find it here: https://github.com/crankycyclops/DiscountCodeUrl

Hope it's useful to someone :)

My module is still pretty new and needs more testing (if you want to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it!)