Unique Discount Codes

[Scott.]

Hello All,

We have a need for a refer a friend feature that will generate a unique code for X% off their purchase which would automatically expire after a set number of days. We would also like to keep track of which customer referred who and even extend it to a point by awarding X number of loyalty points to the referrer when one of the referee's make a purchase using the unique code. A few rules would also have to be in place such as the inability to refer themselves and the ability to include or exclude certain categories of product.

Has anyone done this before that can offer any pointers. I'm pretty sure it's not possible OOTB but I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.

[pinballpaul]

Looks like OFBiz has most of the core pieces you need to pull this off without too many headaches, but as usual with OFBiz, you’ll need to tweak it some. :-)

OFBiz has support for unique product codes per promotion. These can be generated automatically by not passing the code to the service.

In the demo trunk look here: <home url>/catalog/control/EditProductPromoCode

Looks like you can tie the unique promo code to a specific party and/or email as well.  From there, it looks fairly trivial to customize to exclude a party from a code.

Ofbiz promotions themselves have a ridiculous amount of rules and conditions available OOTB, including the ability to exclude/include certain categories or products. More importantly, you can easily call a custom service to do things like add points. I know someone started adding loyalty points system into OFbiz but I’m not sure how much of it’s fleshed out OOTB.

On a side note for anyone else watching this thread - any news on getting the demo trunk up? I refer to it often for testing things. :-)
 
--Paul

On May 28, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Scott. <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We have a need for a refer a friend feature that will generate a unique code
> for X% off their purchase which would automatically expire after a set
> number of days. We would also like to keep track of which customer referred
> who and even extend it to a point by awarding X number of loyalty points to
> the referrer when one of the referee's make a purchase using the unique
> code. A few rules would also have to be in place such as the inability to
> refer themselves and the ability to include or exclude certain categories of
> product.
>
> Has anyone done this before that can offer any pointers. I'm pretty sure
> it's not possible OOTB but I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
>
>
>
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> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Unique-Discount-Codes-tp4651218.html
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[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 28/05/2014 16:51, Paul Mandeltort a écrit :

> Looks like OFBiz has most of the core pieces you need to pull this off without too many headaches, but as usual with OFBiz, you’ll need to tweak it some. :-)
>
> OFBiz has support for unique product codes per promotion. These can be generated automatically by not passing the code to the service.
>
> In the demo trunk look here: <home url>/catalog/control/EditProductPromoCode
>
> Looks like you can tie the unique promo code to a specific party and/or email as well.  From there, it looks fairly trivial to customize to exclude a party from a code.
>
> Ofbiz promotions themselves have a ridiculous amount of rules and conditions available OOTB, including the ability to exclude/include certain categories or products. More importantly, you can easily call a custom service to do things like add points. I know someone started adding loyalty points system into OFbiz but I’m not sure how much of it’s fleshed out OOTB.
>
> On a side note for anyone else watching this thread - any news on getting the demo trunk up? I refer to it often for testing things. :-)

It should be soon, I just need now to create a self signed certificate... (I miss it too ;)

Jacques

>  
> --Paul
>
> On May 28, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Scott. <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We have a need for a refer a friend feature that will generate a unique code
>> for X% off their purchase which would automatically expire after a set
>> number of days. We would also like to keep track of which customer referred
>> who and even extend it to a point by awarding X number of loyalty points to
>> the referrer when one of the referee's make a purchase using the unique
>> code. A few rules would also have to be in place such as the inability to
>> refer themselves and the ability to include or exclude certain categories of
>> product.
>>
>> Has anyone done this before that can offer any pointers. I'm pretty sure
>> it's not possible OOTB but I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Unique-Discount-Codes-tp4651218.html
>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>

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