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bluffmunkey
Apr '12

Hi



Is there a way that I can offer a discount on a new product for customers that have bought previous ones?



I'd like to send out an email with a link for them to purchase.



One way would be for me to upload a separate product with the discount applied, but then I guess I can't control them sending this link to other people unless it's a one shot deal?



Thanks.

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Apr '12

You could use our Updates & Newsletters service to send a message to previous buyers of a given product:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.updates.htm



Rather than creating a duplicate product with a discounted price, you could just send a purchase link for the original product with a discount code included in the link URL, as explained here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.discounts.in-button.htm



You may want to run that link through a URL shortener like TinyURL.com, Bit.ly, Goo.gl, etc. to make the discount code less obvious and prevent line-wrapping from breaking the URL. If you use the Buy Now approach, the buyer would be taken directly to instant checkout, bypassing the cart, so that would make it even less apparent a discount code was being applied.



However, it would not be possible to prevent people from sharing that link (or the discount code, if they discover it) with others. The only way to limit discount codes to one use per buyer would be to set up a discount with a list of Discount Codes and Max. Use Count = 1, then issue each buyer their own, unique code from that list. We have no way to distribute a unique code to each recipient using our Updates & Newsletters feature, so you'd need to find a more sophisticated mailing-list service that could handle that (maybe Aweber or MailChimp?).

bluffmunkey
Apr '12

Hi Mr Guru



Thanks for that reply.



I've already used the the updates and newsletters function for a product update so that's cool.



I think i'll just use your suggested discount code function for now as I don't have a proper mailing list in place yet.



Many thanks for the suggestion.

bluffmunkey
Apr '12

Ok apologies



I'm trying to use the buy now button method and I'm not understanding it at all.



The buy now button code I'm given is this :-



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=1087418&c=single&cl=198697" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now"/></a>



To which I need to add this :-



&on0=Promotion&os0=YOURCODEHERE



Am I to assume that I need to add that text after 198697"



If I do that, the entire link isn't clickable as it contains spaces.





If I run that edited code through tinyurl I get a dead link, and i'm still not sure what I need to do in order to apply a percentage discount with the inserted text?



Assume you're talking to a complete moron, I know nothing of code! :wink:



Thanks again

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Apr '12

You would add &on0=Promotion&os0=YOURCODEHERE to the end of the button URL without adding any spaces; if you're emailing the link directly or putting it through a URL shortener, it would look like this example:



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=1087418&c=single&cl=198697&on0=Promotion&os0=YOURCODEHERE



Pardon the line wrapping here; that should be one long line without any spaces. Also note that Buy Now buttons can only use certain discount code settings:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/faq.discounts.buy-now.htm