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Documentation/Smart Coupons for WooCommerce/How to create a ‘Buy X and get X for 50% OFF’ coupon for WooCommerce

How to create a ‘Buy X and get X for 50% OFF’ coupon for WooCommerce

Last updated on October 20, 2022

WooCommerce coupon system lets you create a variety of coupons to attract customers to your online store. But the default coupon setup may be inadequate to fulfil certain customer needs. An extended coupon plugin like the Smart coupon for WooCommerce may serve the purpose. It will help you to create personalized or custom coupons for your store.

One of the most common and popularly used giveaways is the Buy X and get X for a 50% OFF coupon.

Getting started

  • Firstly, install and activate the plugin, and navigate to Smart Coupon > Coupons from your WordPress dashboard.
  • Click on Add coupon button. 
  • Key in an appropriate coupon code and description

Configuring the coupon

Set the discount type

As a first step, head on to the General tab. Select the discount type as BOGO (Buy X Get X/Y) from the discount type dropdown

  • Set the coupon apply frequency (Number of times).
    • Apply once: If the cart is eligible or conditions are met, the coupon applies once. ie: If you set the coupon to offer Buy 2 Get 1, you get one free product. Moving more items to the cart will not make it eligible to get more free products.
    • Apply repeatedly: The coupon applies repeatedly whenever the cart is eligible or if conditions are met. ie: If you set the coupon to offer Buy 2 Get 1 then the coupon works repeatedly for Buy 4 Get 2 and so on.

Optionally, you may also set the following:

  • coupon start and expiry date
  • apply coupon automatically
  • display available coupons in the cart, checkout or My account page.

Assign coupon apply conditions from Usage restriction tab

Next, from the Usage restriction tab, select the product or category you wish to give the offer.

Buy2Get1-Usage Restriction

Product/Category restriction: Enable to apply coupons only if the cart satisfies the product or category restrictions.

Individual quantity restriction: Enable to set minimum and maximum quantity restrictions for individual product/category instead of the entire cart. If disabled, then the Minimum quantity of matching products will be considered.

Product condition

Any from below selection: Applies coupon if any of the products from below is available in the cart.

All from below selection: Applies coupon if the cart contains all of the listed products.

Products: Products that the coupon will be applied to or that need to be in the cart in order for the discount to be applied by satisfying the min and max quantity restrictions.

Exclude products: Products that the coupon will not be applied to or that cannot be in the cart in order for the discount to be applied. This will not be applicable for percentage and fixed product discount.

In the above example, move two ‘XC Tshirt or YT Tshirt’ to the cart to be eligible for the coupon.

Select the products to offer on discount

Under the Giveaway products tab, choose the product or category that you wish to give on offer. It can be the same product in the cart, any product from the store or any product from the same or different category and so on.

Giveaway products for BOGO

Customer gets: Choose what the customers get for free or with a discount if the cart eligibility or conditions are met.

It adds free product/s to the customer’s cart on applying the coupon based on the following selection:

  • Specific product
  • Any product from a specific category
  • Any product in store
  • Same product as in the cart
  • Any product from the same category as in the cart (Coming soon)

However, in this example, we can proceed by choosing the option Specific products.

Offer BOGO for specific product

If cart eligibility or conditions are met, your customers will get specific product/s for free or with a discount.

In the above example, the customer will get ‘ZC T-shirt on 50%’ discount on buying two ‘XC Tshirt or YT Tshirt’.

Finally, publish the coupon.

Redeeming the coupon

‘Buy 2 get 1 at 50%‘ for a Specific product will appear on the front end as shown below:

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  • Getting started
  • Configuring the coupon
  • Set the discount type
  • Assign coupon apply conditions from Usage restriction tab
  • Product condition
  • Select the products to offer on discount
  • Offer BOGO for specific product
  • Redeeming the coupon

This article posted in BOGO discounts, Documentation, Knowledge Base, Smart Coupons for WooCommerce

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Shesna

Shesna is a technical content writer for WebToffee. She is familiar in working closely with the SMEs to break down complex technical information into a concise, easy to understand manner.

Comments (11)

  1. juliano

    November 18, 2022

    How do I get 50% off the cheapest item in the cart? Let’s say there are 3 products in the cart and I want to give the discount only to the cheapest one, is there any way?

    Reply
    • Mike

      Mike

      November 22, 2022

      Hi Juliano,
      You can assign a 50% discount to the product you choose from the giveaway tab of the coupon edit page. However, the plugin does not provide any option to give the cheapest product as a giveaway at the moment. The feature is already in our development pipeline and we are actively working on it to implement it in the near future. Thank you for your understanding.

      Reply
  2. Dietmar Hohn

    Dietmar Hohn

    November 20, 2021

    Missing a security feature like “auto-generate new coupon based on existing coupon” because I want to prefent that this special coupon code is going online on a coupon page. Is this possible? Or other idea, with ordering a product get a auto-generated coupon (based on a existing coupon configuration) for the next order too.

    Reply
  3. Saul Mendoza

    Saul Mendoza

    October 5, 2021

    So the customer cant choose the size of their free product?

    Reply
    • Mike

      Mike

      October 6, 2021

      Hi Saul,

      Sorry to let you down, we currently do not have such an option. However, you can choose a fixed variation as a free product. Thanks for understanding.

      Reply
  4. Daisy Linton

    Daisy Linton

    August 7, 2021

    How do I get this to apply to every product in a specific category?

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      August 15, 2021

      Hi Daisy,

      Sorry to let you down but we currently do not have such an option.

      Reply
  5. Alexis Wolfman

    Alexis

    March 15, 2021

    Hey team. What if the Buy X get Y free is for every product? The logic in the article only works for specific products. Thanks

    Reply
  6. joanna bensimon

    joanna bensimon

    January 9, 2021

    This is what I am trying to achieve: Buy 1, get one at 50% off. What should the parameters be if someone adds to cart 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 products?

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      January 25, 2021

      This method of implementation will work for scenarios where a buy 1 get 50% off the cart type offer needs to implement.

      Reply
  7. Echo

    April 1, 2020

    Hey, how about you try fixing your site so that in responsive it doesn’t stack?

    This sucked on mobile

    Reply

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