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Overview
Discounts are a powerful marketing weapon, which allows you to drive customer loyalty and revenue. Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce is a powerful extension, which lets you manage shop discounts like a pro. More than a simple discount plugin, it is a highly performant marketing tool that helps you increase your visibility and then, your income.
Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin Installation
You need:
1. WordPress (minimum version: 3.6)
2. Woocommerce (minimum version: 3)
3. A beautiful theme. We suggest;
- Big Store theme – It’s an eCommerce versatile free WordPress theme integrated with WooCommerce plugin to sell your products online. Theme comes with many one click import demo templates which make your website designing more easy and smooth. It has multiple features like Header & footer combination, Color & background option, Sticky Header, AJAX powered search, Product Quick view, Section On/Off, Product Sections, Shop Page options, dynamic product filtering and much more!
You can also look through this list of Woocommerce themes, you will certainly find one that speaks to you.
Installation Process
The zip file downloaded from Discountsuiteforwp contains:
- The Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce user manual (User Manual.pdf)
- The Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce Installable plugin zip file (Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce).
If you have a copy of the plugin as a zip file, you can manually upload it and install it through the Plugins admin screen.
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the screen.
- Select the zip file from your local filesystem.
- Click the Install Now button.
When the installation is complete, you’ll see “Plugin installed successfully.” Click the Activate Plugin button.
Let’s now make our first steps with this plugin.
Setting up the Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin
The first step after installing the Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin is the general settings; setting those parameters at the beginning of your work process will ease the discounts’ creation later on. To access the settings pages, click on the menu Discounts > Settings.
Here you have the following parameters to set:
- License Key: Add your license key to activate the pro version of the plugin.
- Click ‘SAVE’: when you click the ‘SAVE’ button the page will re-load, and a message will appear and ask you to activate the plugin.
- Click ‘ACTIVATE’: if the license key is valid the activation will be a success, if it doesn’t work, contact the support team.
NB: The following settings are optional, and you can set them up if you need to use them.
- Mailchimp API KEY: Used when a MailChimp based discount need to be set. How to find my API Key?
- SendinBlue API KEY: Used when a SendinBlue based discount need to be set.How to find my API Key?
- Disable coupons: Whether or not to disable the coupons usage when a cart discount is active.
- Display cart discounts individually: Whether or not to display each cart discount individually on cart pages.
- Display each discounted product original price crossed on the cart page: whether or not to display each discounted product original price crossed on the cart page.
- Display the total product discounts: whether or not to display total discounts on products below the cart subtotal.
- Automatically add free gifts to the cart: whether or not to automatically add the free gift to the cart if there is only one product in the gifts list.
- Include shipping in taxes: whether or not to consider shipping as part of taxes.
- Completed Orders Statuses: List of order statuses considered as completed (used when manipulating previous orders in the discounts conditions).
The next stage after filling in the setting fields is the creation of the product lists that will undergo the discounts.
You can now dive into creating your product lists and discounts on your Woocommerce store.