Adding And Managing Discounts

The Discounts feature in the Fluently Marketing addon allows you to create powerful, flexible discounts with unique settings, modes, display options, targeting rules, and product associations. You can create as many discounts as you need, each with its own configuration, including user role restrictions, access group conditions, countdown timers, scheduled or evergreen timing, coupon behaviors, and more.

Write A Descriptive Title And Set The Status And Priority

When you open an individual discount, whether creating a new one or editing an existing one, you’ll see tabs that let you configure every detail. The first step in the General tab is to enter a clear internal title for your own internal reference. Next, set the priority for the discount, which determines which one should e applied based on priority when more than one discount is associated with the same product and schedule. You can also choose whether the discount is currently enabled or disabled. 

Associate The Discount With All Or Selected Products

Discounts can be applied globally (to all products or sitewide) or linked to specific products, categories, or brands. The process is simple, with a dropdown menu for selection, and depending on your choice, additional options will appear to choose individual products, categories, or brands. You can set up multiple discounts as needed, each targeting different products.

Choosing Your Discount Method

When configuring your discount details, the first step is to choose the discount method:

• Automatic Discounts – Ideal for convenience; these discounts require no user interaction and can be set up once and forgotten.
• Coupon Code Discounts – Best for extra incentives and customer engagement; these discounts require users to enter a code to receive the discount.

The chosen discount method will determine the flow of the additional settings that need to be configured, with various options available based on the type of discount method selected.

Configure Automatic Discounts

The Automatic Discount method will automatically adjust the FluentCart product price by either a percentage or a fixed amount reduction from the original price or the comparable price. This creates a familiar experience on the product page, featuring a “sale” badge, the original price crossed out, and the new discounted price displayed.

Fixed Discount

A fixed discount reduces a specific amount from the regular product price (or compare price). This is ideal when you want customers to see a clear and predictable dollar-value reduction that’s easy to know the amount saved.

Displaying a Sale Badge for Discounted Products

By default, FluentCart shows discounted prices with the original crossed out with the new price beside it, but does not include a sale badge to highlight it. Since this is a common visual cue in most online stores, the Fluently Marketing addon adds an optional sale badge feature that appears automatically whenever a discount is active.

You can choose to display the badge on product pages, shop grids, and archive layouts, helping customers instantly recognize when an item is on sale. The badge text is also fully customizable, so you can match the tone of your promotion—whether it’s “Sale,” “Limited Offer,” “Special Price,” or anything else you prefer.

Configure Coupon Code Discounts

The second discount method is the Coupon Code option. This method utilizes FluentCart’s built-in coupon system, but expands it with our additional features. When you choose the Coupon Code method, you can display a coupon on the product page, make the code clickable for easy copying, show a discount notice, auto-apply the code, or combine these features as needed.

Create Your Coupon in FluentCart

To use this method, you will need to first create a new coupon in SureCart and paste the promotion code into our settings:

1. Go to the backend of your website to FluentCart > Coupons
2. click the “Add Coupon” button to create a new coupon code
3. Copy the value from the Code field
4. Paste that coupon code into the Coupon Code input field in our discount settings

Once connected, all FluentCart coupon usage restrictions, like the type, discount amount, minimum spend, included or excluded products, maximum total uses and user uses, etc. will still apply as normal. Fluently Marketing does not create or modify the coupon itself, but rather presents it and applies to for customers in new and exciting, helpful ways for customers.

Configure The Discount Notice Display And Message

Our plugin offers two discount methods, and the second is the versatile Coupon Code discount method. This option is ideal for any payment type in SureCart—one-time purchases, subscriptions, or installments—since it leverages SureCart’s native coupon functionality. By setting the Discount Method to Coupon Code, you can display a clickable coupon code on the SureCart product page that customers can copy and apply during checkout or which can be applied automatically.

Write A Custom Message To Display On Discounted Products

You can add a custom message to any discounted product to clearly communicate the promotion to your customers. This message can include details about the sale, instructions for using the coupon, or any other information you want shoppers to see directly on the product page. By placing the message prominently, you make it easy for customers to understand the offer and take advantage of it.

Optionally Include Coupon Value And Coupon Code In Discount Notice

You can now include {coupon_code} and {coupon_value} variables in your discount messages. This small addition makes a big difference in personalization! For example:

• “Copy the coupon code ABC123 and apply it at checkout for a $10 discount!”
• “Save 30% on everything!”

Make Coupon Code Clickable

You can make the coupon code clickable, turning it into a copy-to-clipboard button. This allows customers to copy the code instantly and apply it at checkout, reducing friction and making it easier for them to redeem discounts.

Use The Shortcode To Display Coupon Discounts In Any Page Builder

This incredible feature enables you to build your own marketing landing pages or product pages and still display coupon discounts! This is an incredible bonus feature if you are not using the default SureCart product pages, but instead using other pages or post types to display your SureCart products

To do this, simply place the shortcode [surelywp_coupon_discount product_id= discount_id=] anywhere in your content. This shortcode will show any of the features related to the coupon code, including the custom message, countdown timer, and will show or hide based on the schedule.

This shortcode requires a product ID parameter if used on a page that is not the SureCart product page. To find the product ID, go to SureCart>Products and select the individual product. The product ID will be shown in the URL slug in your browser address bar, something like https://yourdomain.com/surecart/wp-admin/admin.php?page=sc-products&action=edit&id=5420a0f8-06d0-491f-9fcf-987b838c406c. In this case, the product ID can be seen at the end of the URL clearly as 5420a0f8-06d0-491f-9fcf-987b838c406c.

The shortcode in this case requires the “product_id” parameter and looks like [surelywp_coupon_discount product_id=5420a0f8-06d0-491f-9fcf-987b838c406c discount_id=1].

Choose The Discount Schedule Mode

With our plugin, you can easily control when and how the discount is active. You can keep it always on, schedule it between specific dates, or use evergreen mode for personalized time-limited offers per visitor.

Activate Discounts Right Away

If you are starting a sale now and want to make the discount live right away, go for it! You can do that with the Always Active setting. This means, as long as you have the status of the discount configuration set to enabled, the discount will always be active. Use this when you want to manually control the sale period. You can optionally set the discount to scheduled if you prefer later, or even to evergreen.

Schedule Product Discounts And Sales For Specific Dates And Times

it’s easy to schedule discounts, whether automatic or coupon-based! Simply set a start and end date and time for the discount, and it will automatically activate or display the coupon code and custom message between the selected dates.

Set Your Discount To Evergreen Mode For Limited-Time Countdowns For each Customer

The Evergreen Discount Mode lets you set a countdown timer duration that starts when a visitor first lands on the page, and then expires. All the other coupon discount settings function the same as before with everygreen mode, so everything is familiar to set up.

This feature offers complete customization options to control the countdown duration, hide purchase buttons or redirect after the countdown ends, set custom text for the countdown timer, and even set a custom cookie name and cookie duration for when it should reset for each user in the future.

Display Countdown Timers To Drive Urgency For Sale End

When a discount is set to Scheduled or Evergreen mode, you can display a countdown timer directly on the product page to create urgency and encourage purchases.

• Scheduled discounts: The timer counts down from the selected start date to the end date.
• Evergreen discounts: The timer starts when a visitor first lands on the page and counts down for the duration you specify, resetting per user if needed.

You can fully customize the countdown message to add a personal touch. For example, “Sale ends in [time remaining].” This feature works for both automatic and coupon-based discounts, giving you maximum flexibility to highlight your promotions.