There are several studies that show that having a coupon field in your checkout process can actually lower conversion rates. When people see a coupon field, they assume they can find a coupon somewhere online and they'll leave your site looking for a coupon. It's better to hide the field and give your special customers a discount another way.
Using URL Coupons, we can share special URLs like http://mysite.com/holiday2015
to give people a special discount. These URLs could be shared on your newsletter, via social media, on business cards, or even mentioned on podcasts.
You will also need to install and activate the URL Coupons plugin, available on WooThemes.com.
We'll be creating a WooCommerce coupon, configuring a few extra settings, and then hiding the coupon field on the cart and checkout pages. Let's take a look at the following steps:
holiday2015
. The full URL that someone would have to type in would be http://mysite.com/holiday2015
. Let's take a look at the following screenshot that illustrates the usual coupon settings page with a few extra settings provided by the URL Coupons extension:When the user visits the page, they'll see a banner saying the coupon code was applied successfully and they'll see the coupon details on the cart page.
Now that we have set up the URL coupons, we can disable the regular Coupon field. Implement the following steps: