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How Coupons Work

Coupons can be a great way to bring new customers to your store, reward loyal customers, or move overstocked or discontinued items. Yahoo! Merchant Solutions includes a coupon manager that allows you to set up coupons with a certain value for minimum purchases, specific items, for a specific amount, a percentage off, or even free shipping.

To create a coupon:

Enter a coupon code starting with a letter .You may wish to make the codes easy to remember for visitors and
for you to read (such as "freeship" for free shipping or "Percent10" for ten percent off.

Select the type of coupon option :

Amount—enter an amount to be subtracted from the subtotal.

Percent—enter a numerical value representing the percentage off the subtotal.

Free shipping—select a shipping method to correspond to the coupon (such as free ground shipping for a Christmas promotion)

Select a minimum purchase option :

Not required—coupon will apply to any subtotal amount.

Amount—enter an amount (for example 50.00) at which the coupon can be applied.

Set an expiration option :

Does not expire (default)—select this option to not have an end date for this coupon. This option is useful for running ongoing promotions.

Valid through—use the drop down menus to select a date as the final date at which the coupon can be used.

Select target items :

Enter items to which the coupon can be applied separated by commas or …

Use the drop down menu to select items to which the coupon can be applied. Please note that a maximum of
100 items will appear in the drop down menu. If you wish to choose an item that does not appear on this menu and do not know the item code, click "Browse for an item" to navigate through your Store hierarchy for the item.

Note: If you enter hundreds of item IDs to the target items text field (to exclude certain items from applying to
a certain coupon), note that the text field may not show the codes you entered. This is a known limitation of web browsers. The correct target items will be associated with the coupon however. You can place a test order, entering an excluded item and the coupon code to confirm that excluded items are not associated with the
coupon you created.

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