Ecommerce - Gift Vouchers
Offering Gift Vouchers/Discounts is an excellent way to make sales, particularly on products where margins are high. A good example of this is "digital products" where (more than likely) margin is probably 100% of the sale amount…
By offering a 50% or more Discount Coupon, vendor is still making a good amount and the buyer has a bargain.
Taking it to osCommerce
I'm starting to slowly get back into osCommerce after some years out. A new client required the ability to offer Gift Vouchers and Discounts on the latest version of osCommerce which is called "RC1". After having a hunt through the Contributions area yesterday, I could not find anything that was suitable in terms of;
- usable on RC1
- easy to use for "not web savvy" person
- coded cleanly
So, I went back to the drawing board and coded my own - based on some work I did years ago. With just a few lines of code I've now got a really nice Gift Vouchers package suitable for the latest version of osCommerce.
Sweet!
Comment by Adam Dempsey — January 10, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Nice work
I assume you are going to make this a part of your osCommerce fork?
Comment by Jared — January 10, 2008 @ 8:25 pm
Nice! I couldn't make out some of the details due to the video size, but are they coupons only? In other words, can a customer purchase a $100 gift certificate and then use it on 5 $20 purchases?
-jared
Comment by burt — January 11, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Adam - maybe!
Jared - no, it's a simple "get $x off" or "get x% off" type of deal. Vouchers can be set to be used once or used multiple times. I rather like the idea of splitable vouchers though, perhaps I can have a think about that.
Comment by burt — January 16, 2008 @ 12:24 am
Ha! After getting this complete for RC1, I see that RC2 was released today. Will try a direct install of my mod onto a new RC2 and see how it goes.
Comment by burt — January 16, 2008 @ 9:32 am
Good news - no changes needed for this modification for RC2.