How to Set WooCommerce Coupon Rules with Advanced Coupons?

The first thing you need to do is, log in to your WordPress admin area. After that, go to the Add New Plugins section and install the Advanced Coupons WordPress plugin.

After installation, activate it.

Now, you are ready to set custom rules for your coupons. If you don’t have any coupons in your shop, create one. WooCommerce coupons can be made through the Marketing section.

If you already got coupon codes, leave this part. Then, when you create new coupons for your shop, all you need to do is, enter the code and a description for easy identification.

Right below that section, you can see the Advanced Coupons plugin options.

We will be giving a 50% discount on all purchases using this coupon. So, configure the General Settings accordingly. However, the Add Products, Scheduler, One-Click Apply Notification, Shipping Overrides, etc., are premium features. So, we can’t configure those using the Lite version plugin.

Here in this article, we will be showing you how can you create a basic BOGO deal, restrict coupons for specific WordPress user roles, and how a user can apply coupons automatically by visiting custom URLs.

BOGO stands for Buy One Get One. It’s a common tactic in the market that will help you to increase your sales. And with this Advanced Coupons WordPress plugin, we will be able to create a complete customized BOGO deal inside our WooCommerce shop.

Let me show you how.

You will indeed get some limitations in the BOGO deal customization there. However, it’s pretty simple than you think. In the coupons section, you can see the customization options for BOGO.

There you will see two main configurations.

Trigger Type
Apply Type

In the free version, you can choose only specific products. If you are using the premium plan, you can configure any combination of products or product categories. We have created two test products and added them to the BOGO section.

And as you can see in the above screenshot, we have chosen the discount as 100%. So when someone uses the coupon for purchasing the first product, they will get a 100% discount on the second product’s price. So once you have done that, save the changes.

And you are good to go. This is an excellent chance for you to offer combo packs and similar deals.

The WordPress CMS will accept user registrations and everything with membership. If you are using a membership plugin for taking care of it or using the WooCommerce based user roles, you need to restrict the coupon usage according to roles sometimes.

As an example, let’s say that you are running a membership website with premium courses. Plus, you have divided the membership plans into two main ones. When the first plan offers basic courses, the other can offer more advanced courses with limited-time coupons.

In that case, you need to restrict the coupon usage according to the user’s role.

You won’t see so many customization options on the plugin settings page. Instead, all you see is a message you can display when an invalid user tries to use the coupon.

We will be doing the full customizations through the coupons settings page.

Under the General Settings, you can see the Role Restriction option. Make sure that you have enabled it, choose who you need in, and you are good to go.

We will be able to add multiple roles to the options.

If you need to add a unique error message for the coupon, you can edit the same from there. Or, the plugin will show the error message we have globally.

Once you are done, publish or update the coupon code. From now on, the coupon will only work for the ones you have chosen.

When you promote the deals and coupons through emails, probably we recommend adding a custom URL to the newsletter that will automatically give the user a discount. Typically, a user needs to visit the product page, add it to the cart, apply coupons at the checkout.

Well, with a single URL, we can apply the coupon. So we can skip the steps mentioned above, improve/ speed up the process.

Under the plugins’ settings, you could see a section for creating coupons.

Select it, and you will see the customization options.

You don’t need to change the URL prefix in their settings. The default one – Coupon is good enough. Then, configure options like

Redirection URL after applying a coupon
Redirection URL if the coupon is invalid or visited
Success message
Coupon applying failed message
Field hiding

Etc

Once you have configured those, you can create coupons for your customers. On the coupon creation page, you will see the URL settings.

The plugin will modify the coupon URL according to our chosen coupon code by default. But, you can change it and make it a unique one. In our case, we have added SAVE50 as the coupon code. And our coupon URL will look like https:www.example.com/coupon/save50 without any other modification.

If you need to add something else in the URL, use the URL override feature.

We have just published our coupon. So when someone visits that URL, the coupon will be applied automatically. Don’t forget to set the basic settings like discount type, amount, expiry, etc.