Coupon Code Campaigns

Coupon code delivery is a setting on every campaign — not a separate discount type. Any campaign you build (percentage, fixed, BOGO, tiered, bundle, spend threshold) can be set to require a code customers enter at checkout instead of auto-applying.

This makes Smart Cycle Discounts unique among WooCommerce coupon plugins: most coupon plugins only support percentage and fixed-amount coupons. Here, your tiered B2B pricing or your BOGO promotion can be code-gated too.

When to Use a Coupon Code Campaign #

• Email marketing — “Use SUMMER20 for 20% off” in your newsletter, with the discount only applying to subscribers who actually open the email
• Influencer / affiliate codes — give each partner a unique code so you can track redemptions per partner
• Loyalty rewards — email a one-time code to a customer who hit a milestone
• Recovery campaigns — give a code to customers who abandoned their cart
• Wholesale onboarding — a private code unlocks tiered B2B pricing for vetted accounts
• Flash sale to a private list — reward your VIPs with a discount your public storefront doesn’t advertise

How to Enable #

1. In the campaign wizard, go to Step 3 (Discount).
2. Configure your discount type and value as normal.
3. Scroll to the Delivery card and pick Requires code.
4. Enter a code (3–64 characters: letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores).
5. (Optional) Set a total redemption limit.
6. (Pro, optional) Use bulk-unique codes or single-use enforcement.
7. Save and launch the campaign.

How Customers Redeem #

Method 1: Native cart/checkout coupon field #

Customer types or pastes the code into WooCommerce’s standard “Have a coupon?” field. Discount applies and shows as a familiar coupon line in totals (“Coupon SUMMER20: -$10.00”).

Method 2: URL auto-apply #

Share a link with ?wsscd_code=YOURCODE in your emails or social posts. Example:

https://yourstore.com/cart/?wsscd_code=SUMMER20

When the customer clicks, the code is applied automatically and the URL is cleaned. WooCommerce shows its standard “Coupon code applied successfully” notice.

You can copy ready-made share links from the codes admin page (Campaigns → your campaign row → View codes → Copy).

What Customers See #

This is the key difference from auto-apply campaigns:

• Before applying the code: Nothing. No badges, no strikethrough prices, no banner. The store looks like every other day.
• After applying the code: Discounted line items, a coupon line in totals, and a clean checkout.

This is the entire point of code-required mode — the discount is private until the customer presents a code. If you want the discount visible on product pages, use Auto-apply delivery instead.

Bulk Unique Codes (Pro) #

For email blasts to large lists, you don’t want everyone using the same code — you want each customer to have their own. Bulk generation creates up to 50,000 unique codes in one click.

• Quantity: 1–50,000 per campaign
• Length: 6–20 characters
• Prefix (optional): “SUMMER” produces codes like SUMMER-A4F9K2, SUMMER-7N3PQR…
• Character set: Excludes ambiguous characters (0/O, 1/I/L) for clean handwriting and verbal sharing
• Export: Download all codes as CSV from the codes admin page, ready to merge into your email tool

Single-Use Enforcement (Pro) #

By default a code can be used as many times as your usage limit allows. Single-use enforcement adds a hard lock:

• Per code: Each code can be redeemed exactly once globally. Combined with bulk generation, this gives you one-time-use coupons (e.g. “every email gets a unique 10% code that works once”).
• Per customer: Each customer can redeem the code once, but multiple customers can use the same code. Combined with a single shared code, this gives you the “new-subscriber 15% off” pattern.

Single-use locks are atomic — two simultaneous checkouts can’t both consume the same single-use code.

Managing Codes After Launch #

Each code-required campaign gets a tag icon badge in the campaigns list so you can spot them at a glance. Click View codes in the row actions to see:

• Every code on the campaign
• Times redeemed (per code) and total cap
• Single-use mode (if enabled)
• First-redemption timestamp
• One-click Copy share link button next to each code
• Download CSV button (Pro) for bulk export

Refunds Reverse Redemptions #

When you refund an order that used a code, the redemption is automatically reversed: the code’s usage count decrements and any single-use lock is released. The customer can use the code again on a new order if the campaign is still active.

Optional Cart Hint for Customers #

Some merchants want to remind customers “hey, if you’ve got a code, enter it.” You can enable this in Settings → Display → Cart Nudges → “Have a discount code?” Cart Hint.

When on, a small line appears above the cart and inside the mini-cart: “Got a discount code? Enter it at checkout to save.” The hint is generic — it doesn’t reveal any campaign details. It auto-suppresses when:

• No code-required campaigns are active
• The customer has already applied an SCD code
• The cart is empty

Coupon-Aware Pre-Launch Intelligence #

Before you launch a code-required campaign, the wizard’s Review step flags four coupon-specific risks:

• Conflict with auto-applied campaign — another active campaign is already discounting the same products automatically; the code campaign would replace those discounts, not stack with them
• Stacks with WooCommerce sale prices — if your code is percentage-based and the products have native WC sale prices, the effective discount may be deeper than intended
• Schedule overlap with another code-gated campaign — two active code campaigns on overlapping products can produce surprise outcomes
• Redemption velocity will exceed cap — if your campaign is running, the current redemption pace projects exhausting the usage cap before the campaign ends

Auto-Apply vs. Coupon Code — Quick Decision #

If you want…	Use this delivery
Discount visible on product pages with badges and strikethrough prices	Auto-apply
Discount only for customers who clicked a specific link	Requires code
Track which marketing channel drove the redemption	Requires code (one code per channel)
Reward each newsletter subscriber with a unique one-time code	Requires code + bulk unique + per-code single use (Pro)
Wholesale or B2B pricing for vetted accounts	Requires code (share with approved customers only)
Reward existing customers with a code in a thank-you email	Requires code + per-customer single use (Pro)
Public sale that everyone gets automatically	Auto-apply