Auto-generating promo codes?

[shiftygeezer]

I've an idea for a friend recommendation strategy. As my product is an educational title for children, word-of-mouth from parents will be a key means to generate publicity. I'd like to augment this by providing every customer with a voucher that they can pass on to friends & family to get a discount. However, I would like the voucher to only work with 2 customers. These in turn would get a voucher to pass on to 2 friends, who when they bought would get a voucher. This way each voucher would be accompanied by a personal recommendation rather than being a generic voucher.



So, is there any possibility of this being added, with auto-generating vouchers that can be included in the purchase email via a control code [%voucher1]? Ore would that just mean too many vouchers for the system to cope with?

[E-junkie_Monster]

That is something that we can add to our wishlist, as it stands with our current system there isn't much of a way to automate this without a lot of work.



You could create a series of one or two use discount codes, copy them to a list and use that list to create a product that distributes them along with your regular product. But the total number of discounts that can be set up is 5,000 and there would be a lot of effort involved in creating and maintaining that list to weed out used codes and add in new ones.