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Creating Yahoo! Store Coupons and Promo Codes

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Article Overview: How to create your own coupons and codes to save money on Yahoo!

Creating Yahoo! Store Coupons and Promo Codes



Using coupons in an online store is a great way to create more traffic and more business for your online store. Yahoo! and other online store applications allow you to create coupons or discount codes in order to give your customers a lower price on a one-time purchase. These coupons are a wonderful excuse for e-mail blasts and other forms of online marketing. Be sure to take advantage of each new coupon offering by remind your customer base that you're still here!

To create Yahoo! Store coupons you will need a Yahoo! Store account. Sign up if you haven't already.

Open The Coupon Manager:

You can get to the Coupon Manager by signing into your account, clicking Store Manager, and then finding the Coupon Manager link beneath the "Promote" section.

Creating A Coupon:

There are a couple different times of coupons you can create. There are Single-Use and Standard coupons in Yahoo! Store. Just enter the coupon code you want your users to use during the checkout process. Examples of this might be "freeshipping" or "save15".

Next, you will need to choose your coupon option. Coupons can either be "Amount" which subtracts that number from the order total, "Percent", which reduces the total by a percentage, or "Free Shipping", which allows you to provide free shipping for items of your choosing.

Now you have to decide if your coupon will require a minimum purchase amount. For example, you may only want a "freeshipping" discount code to apply if the user is spending more than $50.

After you've selected your amount (it could be zero, as well), set when the coupon should expire and apply the coupon to the store items you want it to work for.

Lastly, click Update and then Publish Your Order Settings.

Tracking the usefulness of your promo code:

Yahoo Store Coupons and Yahoo Store Promo Codes are tracked everytime a customer completed an order with one applied. Look in the "Coupon Manager" and watch the performance of your coupons to decide what works for you and what doesn't.

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