GWCoupons for Virtuemart
Set your preferred events, and GWCoupons will generate automatically the Virtuemart Coupon and send it to the customer by email !
Now, coupons can have an expiration delay (in days) !
GWCoupons events types are :
- exceeding a total Order amount
- buying a product as a coupon
- setting an order on a specific Order status
- new user registration (not developed now ... coming soon)
Your customer retention rate will get better !
Composition :
- a component to administrate coupons types
- a plugin to generate automatically coupons on some events (plg_gwcoupons)
- a plugin to remove automatically expired coupons (plg_gwvalidity)
The installation was simple and easy to follow having just installation through 1 zip file.
Was interested if possible to add a feature ? Having the coupon code entered by shopper and the value checked for minimum cart amount before applying the discount.
Thank you
Hello, Thank you for this review and for this detected limit, you're right (and this feature will be corrected in the v0.60) !
You can normally correct this feature by editing the file :
/administrator/components/com_gwcoupons/views/cpntype/tmpl/form.php
Change in the line 91 : maxlength="3"
By a : maxlength="8"
Hello,
Thank you for your review.
You are right. Level access Management is very interesting and more and more important for Joomla uses.
This GWCoupons lack will be filled (in joomla 1.5 version) before moving to Joomla 1.6 !
Overall its a excellent product but would be even better if we could customize email templates and also for goodness sake.. english version please..
Sorry for being demanding but i guess it would helps alot on the coding as i came from Singapore and doesnt really understand foreign language.
Hello,
thank you for your review.
The email customization is already possible, but you need to change the GWCoupons languages files (.INI for GWCoupons Component and Plugin)
For the english version, GWCoupons is multilingual, and english is natively in the package ... not sure to understand your trouble ?
The only complexity (that would be change soon) is that if you have not set your local (singapore) translation files (XX-xx.com_gwcoupons.INI ...) GWCoupons uses by default the french files ... oups, maybe confused !
Hope i help.
It requires one core Virtuemart hack.
Language files need to be edited for English grammar and spelling.
Product as Coupon isn't what I thought. The Product's price IS the Coupon's value. So a $5 product generates either a "5% off" or "$5" Coupon. I can see how this might be used as Customer Credit system, but it doesn't make much sense to make someone buy a $5 product to get $5 off unless they are buying a Gift Certificate for someone else. The Percentage value of Product's price becoming a coupon doesn't make much sense ($50 product = 50% off, $100+ product = 100% off).
I suggest another option called "Buy selected Product(s) - get a Coupon". Which would work like #3 (On Buying a Coupon) but the Coupon's value would come from the GWCoupon admin settings and not come from the Product's price. And when using Multiple-Selected products the Customer would need to buy ALL the selected products to get the Coupon.
Hello, thank you for your comment.
As you say the #3 feature is to sell coupon to be offered !
(and the % will be deactivated in the next release for this feature)
Sure you have a good idea and your not alone with this need (one specific coupon for each or ALL products of a selected list of products)
I will add this feature for sure !
If you have some correction on the english translation, you can send it to me, i will add you in the contributors list !
(we are looking for other countries contributors too ;) )
I made a dutch translation. I refine this translation before submitting it to the designer.
Great, thank you for this report.
Your Dutch lang file will be added to the original package for sure ;)
Thanks for this great component!
And thank you for your help, too ;)
How can I work around this and set a value to my liking?
Again, great job on this component!
Hello, Thank you for this review and for this detected limit, you're right (and this feature will be corrected in the v0.60) !
You can normally correct this feature by editing the file :
/administrator/components/com_gwcoupons/views/cpntype/tmpl/form.php
Change in the line 91 : maxlength="3"
By a : maxlength="8"
I am doing what I can to look through the code to figure out why certain features are not working. Hopefully the developer will contact me and we can get these issues resolved.
Hello and thank you for this review. Your feature proposal sounds great, i note it !
Nowadays, GWCoupons (in the v0.5) will only generate Coupons on some events ... and "LET" virtuemart manage the used of the coupon in the Shopping Cart.
So GWCoupons could not (now) intercept the "utilization" of the coupon ... but this seems to be a great idea, thank you ... (perhaps later) !
And for the generation of coupons only on some virtuemart categories, yes, that's a good new event, i will try to add it to a next (not so far) release ;)
Thanks a lot.
Hello, thank you for your comment. Now, some explanations : The Plugin GWValidity (replace Bot Check_limit) has been developped after the release in v0.50 RC1 of GWCoupons component and the plugin has been late to be released. It's the reason why you have used the old bot check_limit that only work with J!1.0. The PLugin GWValidity v0.50 RC1 for J!1.5 is now on-line !