How to provide WooCommerce signup discount for customers
In this article, let’s configure a ‘Signup coupon worth 20%’ using a Smart coupon for WooCommerce plugin. Coupons can definitely pave the way to improve customer retention and conversion. When it comes to a signup coupon, there is always a possibility to convert a casual visitor into a buyer.
In order to set up a signup coupon you will have to create a master coupon with required properties and then associate it to behave as a signup coupon.
Let us see how a signup coupon providing a 20% discount for a newly registered customer can be configured:
- Navigate to WooCommerce > Coupons > Add Coupon
- Key in an appropriate coupon code and description
WooCommerce Signup Coupon-Create master coupon
- From the General tab, select the discount type as a percentage discount with the discount amount as 20.
WooCommerce Signup Coupon-Create master coupon-General tab
- Publish the coupon.
- Navigate to the Action coupon tab.
- Enable signup coupon: Enable the option to create and assign coupons to customers automatically upon signup.
- Associate a master coupon: The signup coupon will be created based on the underlying master coupon. The coupon configuration (discount percentage and other related rules) will be created based on the selected master coupon.
In this case, select the coupon code signup20 (as per configured) from the drop-down to associate it as the master coupon. It is this coupon that will be sent to the customers on sign up. - Use the master coupon code as-is: When enabled the coupon code will be the same as the master coupon code. Upon successful signup, the email ids of the corresponding users will be added to ‘Allowed emails’ under the Usage Restriction section of the master coupon. When unchecked a new coupon code will be generated for every new signup. These coupons will follow the same configuration as the master coupon, the difference being a unique coupon code. The coupon code can be formatted as per the prefix/suffix/length options. If not specified it will take the format as per the General Settings.
WooCommerce Signup Coupon-Action Coupon
- On signing up successfully, the customer will be notified with an email as shown below:
WooCommerce Signup Coupon-Signup Email Notification
The customer can use the coupon code for their first purchase while checkout to redeem the discount obtained during signup.
Comments (10)
Wes
January 26, 2021
I need to create bulk coupons tied to an item in my WooCommerce store. My affiliate will sell those coupons in his website. After a buyer gets the coupon code, she comes to my website to register with the code. Is it possible to create a separate signup form for this purpose?
Mark
January 29, 2021
Hi Wes,
It is capable of creating signup coupons for users who regsiters via the regular WordPress sign up page. This plugin does not provide any feature to create signup forms on its own. Sorry to have let you down.
Alex
December 17, 2020
Is there any way to generate a unique code per user who signs up for our newsletter with unlimited usage each?
Mark
December 17, 2020
Hi Alex,
I am afraid we don’t have any option to send coupons based on newsletter subscription.
Adnan
December 16, 2020
If someone subscribes to the newsletter plugin, like MailPoet. Is coupon will send to that subscriber or not? Please let me know
Mark
December 17, 2020
Hi Adnan,
The user must register in the site to receive a signup coupon. Newsletter subscription won’t trigger the signup coupon generation.
Vlada
October 14, 2020
Is it possible for this coupon to expire after x amount of days after signup? So the user receives a coupon and the coupon expire e.g. within 5 days of registration, that way customer is forced to use it?
Mark
October 14, 2020
Yes. You can set expiry in number of days in the latest version of the plugin.
Michael
September 29, 2020
Is their a way to auto-generate a UNIQUE coupon code when a user creates an account and set it to only be used once?
Mark
September 29, 2020
While creating the master coupon, please set usage restriction.