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Discount Codes

Creating Discount Codes

To create Discount Codes you will need to go to Paid Member Subscriptions -> Discount Codes and there you will see the “Add New” button. After you click on the “Add New” button you will see the “Add New Discount Code” Panel with all the settings.

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Discount Codes Settings

In the “Add New Discount Code” Panel you will be able to set up your Discount Codes.

What settings can we use:

  • The currency can be changed in Paid Member Subscriptions -> Settings -> Payments -> Currency
  • If you don’t see any Subscription Plan you will need to create one
  • The Expiration Date should not be set in the past otherwise the Discount Code will not work
  • You can set the Renewal Feature to “Customer opts in for automatic renewal”, “Always renew automatically” or “Never renew automatically”. The Subscription Plan Renewal Feature can overwrite this functionality. This Renewal Feature is available only if you have already installed and activated the Recurring Payments for PayPal Standard Add-on, PayPal Pro and PayPal Express Add-on, or Stripe Add-on
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Now your Discount Code is set up and the only thing you need to do now is to click on the “Save Discount” button.

You can re-edit the Discount Code if you missed something, deactivate or delete it from the Discount Codes page. You can search for a specific Discount Code using the Search field or sort the table based on the title or filter it based on a date.

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Using Discount Codes

After we setup our Discount Codes users can start to use them inside the Registration Form when they subscribe, inside their Account or inside the List of Subscription Plans form.

In our example we will use:

Registration Form

Discount Codes can be used inside the Registration Form when a new member registers for the first time on your website. This is what the user sees:

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Registration Form

After Registration, the user will be taken to PayPal to login and to complete the payment. The user will pay $45 for the Gold Subscription Plan since he used the $25 Discount Code.

Paid Member Subscriptions Pro - Discount Codes - Confirm PayPal Payment

This is how the Payment with the Discount Code looks like in Paid Member Subscriptions -> Payments.

Account Form

Users can use the Discount Code inside the Account Form when they want to Retry the Payment or when they want to upgrade their Subscription Plan.

Retry the Payment

There are cases when the user doesn’t have enough money inside his PayPal Account or on his Credit Card and he can’t complete the payment. In this case, the account is created for that user and he can login inside his Account to Retry the Payment.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Retry Payment Account Form

Inside the Account, the user will need to click on the “View Details” link to see the “Retry Payment” link.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Retry Payment Account Form Pending Payment

Clicking on the “Retry Payment” link will take the user to the Retry Payment Form where he can use the Discount Code.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Using Discount Code when Retrying Payment
Upgrading the Subscription Plan

In order to upgrade a Subscription Plan the user will need to login inside his Account and to click on the Upgrade link.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Upgrade Subscription Plan Account Form

The Upgrade link will take the user to the Upgrade Form where he can use the Discount Code.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Upgrade Subscription Plan Account Form

List of Subscription Plans Form

Registered users that didn’t purchase a Subscription Plan can purchase one if they login and access the List of Subscription Plans Form.

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Inside the List of Subscription Plans Form, they can select a Subscription Plan and also they can use a Discount Code.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes Using Discount Code inside the List of Subscription Plan Form

After purchase the user will see the active Subscription Plan inside the List of Subscription Plans Form.

Paid Member Subscriptions Discount Codes List of Subscription Plan Form

Wrong Discount Code

If we setup the Discount Code to work only by purchasing the Gold Subscription Plan, we can’t use it when purchasing a Silver Subscription Plan.

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Automatically add a Discount Code through a URL parameter

This can be used if you want to have a discount code automatically applied when someone visits a specific Registration page. You can achieve this by adding the discount_code parameter to the URL of your Registration page.

Example:
The URL of your page is: https://website.com/register and the exact code of the discount you want to use is summer.

In this case, the link that automatically applies the discount code would be: https://website.com/register?discount_code=summer

For this to work correctly, a subscription plan needs to be preselected in the Registration form, and also that subscription plan needs to be selected in the settings of the Discount Code that’s being used.

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