Re: Coupons

[".cory.trese." <digital@arcane.specialty-books.com>]

OK, I follow your logic (as well as steve's.)  Mike's code helps me understand
a little better too.  A few questions (isn't that inevitable!?!?)

1 : currently no one "logs" into the catalogs I have set up.  Mike's code makes
us of the [if session logged_in] tag.  Does this mean that I can not use it?

2: can I simply set a form field in the order process for a customer to enter
their alphanumeric coupon ID into and then use a snippet of perl to remove that
line from the .asc database (which I would setup to contain all the valid
coupon IDs) and then use a discount (this worries me because I can't make it
work by itself, and include all ^^^^ == fear....anyway) tag at the end of the
order process to kick in the coupon's discount value?

The part i don't understand the most is : Can I impliment this without using a
user database and forcing people to create accounts and log in (because it takes
too much time) and can I get it done by friday :)

Rushing about in a panic,
Cory Trese

> 
>    Electronic coupons can be assigned an electronic key which is stored in a 
> database (or even flat text file) and checked off once they are used, you
> will just have to write a little creatively to check for a valid coupon,
> disable it, and discount your price.
> 
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