WooCommerce Coupons Countdown

May 21, 2013

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in Plugin Overview, Plugins, WooCommerce, WordPress

WooCommerce Coupons Countdown is an extension for WooCommerce, providing pretty coupons with real-time countdown counters. Show your customers the coupons they can use and when they expire.

Features

Coupon countdowns showing coupon codes and validity of coupons in real time.
New coupon option for coupons that are valid up to x days, weeks, months or years after a user registers.
New coupon option that allows to limit coupon usage per user.
Allow coupons to expire based on when a customer’s last order was placed.
Coupons can be limited to customers who have purchased certain products.
New shortcode that renders pretty coupons in various colors.
New options that allow to make coupons valid from a certain time after a customer has created an account or after the customer’s last order.

Summary

Coupons can be rendered using built-in attractive styles or using custom styles provided by your own stylesheet.
Coupons that expire automatically show a countdown. This works with coupons that have a fixed expiration date as well as with coupons that have their expiration set for a period after user registration. Normal coupons will only show the coupon code.
Coupons are rendered only if they are valid for the visitor, this includes coupons for guests and coupons for registered users.

New Coupon Settings : Expiration

Coupon expiration after user registration

Coupon usage limits per user

Coupon expiration after last order

Coupon expiration and validity based on products ordered

Documentation

See the documentation pages.

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Comments

138 responses to “WooCommerce Coupons Countdown”

Alex Mendoza

March 21, 2021

Hi Kento, I just buy the Countdown plugin by Codecanyon.
I need to set up a code within 24 hours duration after user registration.
The issue occurs that expiration time is only working with 16,900 hours as minimum amount of time and in the front end expiration time is displaying 8 minutes in the countdown.
Please help me !!

Reply
1. Kento
  
  March 23, 2021
  
  Hi Alex,
  
  Simply use Duration UOM : Days and Duration : 1 – see https://docs.itthinx.com/document/woocommerce-coupons-countdown/ for details.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Alex

March 19, 2021

Hi kento!
I just get the Countdown WooCommerce Coupons PRO version. Trying to display my first coupon countdown adding the [coupon_countdown code="mycouponID"] shortcode to the page and Woocommerce show the next error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_cart() on null in /home/mySite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-coupons-countdown/lib/views/class-woocommerce-coupons-countdown-shortcodes.php:327 Stack trace: #0 /home/mySite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-coupons-countdown/lib/views/class-woocommerce-coupons-countdown-shortcodes.php(147): WooCommerce_Coupons_Countdown_Shortcodes::check_validity(Object(WC_Coupon), true, Array) #1 /home/mySite/public_html/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(343): WooCommerce_Coupons_Countdown_Shortcodes::coupon_countdown(Array, ”, ‘coupon_countdow…’) #2 [internal function]: do_shortcode_tag(Array) #3 /home/mySite/public_html/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(218): preg_replace_callback(‘/\\[(\\[?)(coupon…’, ‘do_shortcode_ta…’, ‘[coupon_countdo…’) #4 /home/mySite/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): do_shortcode(‘[coupon_countdo…’) #5 /home/mySite/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(212): WP_Hook->apply_filters(‘[coupon_countdo…’, Array) #6 /home/ in /home/mySite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-coupons-countdown/lib/views/class-woocommerce-coupons-countdown-shortcodes.php on line 327

So now I am unable to edit the page I inserted the shortcode.
Please send help !

Reply
1. Kento
  
  March 23, 2021
  
  Hi Alex,
  
  That’s weird, what versions are you using and what other plugins are active when this happens?
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Szabolcs

September 16, 2020

Hi!

I have 2 problems after updating the plugin to 2.10.0

1. Alternative stylesheets do not load
2. If you upgrade to WooCommerce 4.5.2, and then click the “Remove legacy coupon menu item” the coupon shortcodes inserted on a post causes a fatal error, and the editor for that post does not load after that. I already clicked to this option, so I can’t edit my posts and pages, so this is an urgent problem!

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1. Szabolcs
  
  September 16, 2020
  
  More info on problem 2.:
  
  It seems to occour only when there are exluded, or specified products in the coupon’s “Usage Restriction” settings
  
  Reply
2. Kento
  
  September 21, 2020
  
  Hi Szabolcs,
  
  1) I don’t see how this would relate to the extension, but it sounds like you should try clearing the cache.
  2) The extension is not showing any of the issues you have mentioned in our tests, my guess is that you have another extension causing them. I would suggest you disable other extensions and then reenable individually until you see this happening.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Szabolcs

August 17, 2020

Hi!

Can the expiration be set to expire at midnight (when it’s days or months or years) like in the default WC expiration setup?

Reply
1. Kento
  
  August 25, 2020
  
  Hi Szabolcs,
  
  No because that would depend on the reference, e.g. when a user has registered, the moment at which the user registered would be the point of reference.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Szabolcs

August 17, 2020

Hi!

I’ve bought this plugin, and have a question about the translation of it. I translated the phrases, but the “Days”, “h”, “m”, “s” words in the countdown can’t be translated for some reason, the “h”, “m”, “s” letters are not even in the translation file. What should I do? Thanks in advance!

Reply
1. Kento
  
  August 25, 2020
  
  Hi Szabolcs,
  
  Thanks for pointing out the issue with translating those terms. We will check it and release an update with corresponding fixes.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Jose

April 20, 2020

I bought yesterday the plugin. but where can in find the donwload of the plugin? In my wordpress website i cant find it. I had it on my website before but deleted it because it didnt work. Yesterday i bought i licence and i could put the licence anywhere…so i deleted the plugin. help me please. Or can i download any count down plugin and use the licence?

Reply
1. Kento
  
  April 27, 2020
  
  Hi there!
  
  You will find it on this page https://codecanyon.net/downloads
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Riezal

March 5, 2020

Hi,

Does your plugin can generated uniquely & produce MANY coupon that can individually expired for any guest (non-registered user) ?

thanks

Reply
1. Kento
  
  March 12, 2020
  
  Hi Riezal,
  
  Please have a look at http://docs.itthinx.com/document/woocommerce-coupons-countdown where you can find details on the features related to limitations on coupon usage for guests.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Kim Shaw

January 31, 2020

Hello, I purchased this plugin yesterday but am finding that it is conflicting with my Smart Coupons plugin. I am not experienced with code and have been unable to find a solution via searching the forum. The two main issues relate to shortcode use and expiry date error. These issues caused a fatal error on my site. I have now deactivated the plugin and removed it. How do I go about obtaining a refund?
Kindly, Kim

Reply
1. Kento
  
  February 10, 2020
  
  Hi Kim,
  
  Thanks for giving it a try! About the fatal error that should not happen and I am not aware of any particular issue with the latest versions, but without detailed information about the error I can’t really tell. Refunds can be requested from your account on CodeCanyon, please have a look there.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
tom

September 8, 2019

I have tried to show a coupon with its colour and it just will not show on the page.

this is what i am using
[coupon_countdown code="yrp7htc4" color="red"]

nothing shows up and i cant find where the colour templates are to edit as it said it does this?

what i would like is to just add shortcodes that will display on any product page the voucher info and in a nice colour boxes cant seem to get the colour to work.

Some help please

Reply
1. Kento
  
  September 9, 2019
  
  Hi Tom,
  
  On your page, the CSS you have added simply shows up as text, you need to make sure that the CSS is enclosed within a style element.
  
  From what I can see, the shortcode is rendering the coupon information correctly on the page, but it is missing the extension’s stylesheet. The stylesheet is loaded automatically but on your site, it fails to load. This can be due to several reasons, among them an incompatible page builder or one of those optimization plugins that just skip loading all required resources. If that is the case, you can simply add the extension’s stylesheet to your current theme (the styles are found inside the plugin’s folder css/woocommerce-coupons-countdown.css).
  
  Unless you prefer to have a refund which you can request here, if you need further indications, we should have a look at your setup. For that we will need to have temporary admin credentials which you can forward to support at itthinx dot com with a link to this comment and a proof of purchase of your item on CodeCanyon.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
  1. Tom
    
    September 18, 2019
    
    No refund Required
    
    Thank you very much with all your help on the custom work.
    
    I would recommend this plugin for many reasons, first off it does what it said it does really well, and 2nd as my site required some custom work for it to work with my site (My Issue) i would highly recommend the developer as he went above and beyond with help & was also more than happy to give a refund also & on that note this for me is a Big reason to recommend this plugin to new buyers.
    
    Reply
    1. Kento
      
      September 20, 2019
      
      Hi Tom,
      
      Thank you very much for your kind comment, great to have been able to help! I would appreciate it if you could post your review for the plugin here as it hasn’t had one in quite a while and would be very useful feedback.
      
      Cheers
      
      Reply
Alex

March 6, 2019

Hi, I just purchased your plugin. But i cannot setup expiry date for register user. I am using mailster newsletter plugin which store all my registered users. Could you check why is it not working urgently?

Regards,

Reply
1. Kento
  
  March 6, 2019
  
  Hi Alex, what settings are you using?
  
  Reply
  1. Alex
    
    March 7, 2019
    
    Hi, I entered the below settings for 2 different coupons. After that i could not apply them in the checkout page. The users tested fulfilled the below conditions. message is coupon is not valid. kindly advise. thanks!
    
    Coupon 1:
    under Expiration after last order
    duration 2:
    duration UOM: Days
    
    Coupon 2:
    under Expiration after user registration
    duration 2:
    duration UOM: Days
    
    Reply
    1. Kento
      
      March 7, 2019
      
      Hi Alex,
      
      Our tests show that under these conditions the coupon validities are evaluated correctly. As this is not an issue with our plugin, you probably have a conflict or an issue in your setup. Try to disable all non-essential plugins – especially other plugins related to coupons and also test with a default theme without customizations. Enable debugging so you can check the debug.log and rule out any errors.
      
      Cheers
      
      Reply
      1. Alex
        
        March 7, 2019
        
        Hi Kento,
        
        I am not a programmer, i do not know how to see the debug.log. could you login to my site and have a quick look and update me please?
        
        Regards,
        Alex
        
        Reply
        
        Kento
        
        March 7, 2019
        
        Hi Alex,
        
        Sure, please send us temporary admin and FTP credentials to help at itthinx dot com and please make sure to also include a link to this conversation and of course to your site. The FTP access is so we can enable debugging and check for any errors in the debug.log.
        
        Cheers
        
        Reply
Andrea

December 11, 2018

Hi there. In reading all these posts, is it safe to say that I can add a “one time use” coupon, that “expires on ___ “. Example: “Register by March 1, 2019 and receive a 20% discount, by using coupon code REG3119”. ? Or would I need an additional plugin? Thanks!

Reply
1. Kento
  
  December 11, 2018
  
  Hi Andrea,
  
  For the case you describe I think you don’t even need this extension as that should already be covered by the standard options. I’m saying that because you are indicating a fixed date which does not seem to be related to the conditions the extension would cover.
  
  You would want to use it to to set the expiration of a coupon after a user has registered, usage limit per user, expiration after last order, validity based on products ordered, … you can see details on these options on the extension’s documentation page: http://docs.itthinx.com/document/woocommerce-coupons-countdown
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
  1. Andrea
    
    December 11, 2018
    
    Thank you! Would the same hold true if I were to visit “groups” (various throughout time) and tell them “if you sign up by the end of the month, you can get a 20% discount by entering coupon code xxxxx”, and have a coupon code space … and get a log of how many people used that code – for reference?
    
    Reply
    1. Kento
      
      December 17, 2018
      
      Hi Andrea,
      
      WooCommerce provides a report of Coupons by date which you might find useful for that. I’m not sure about the groups you mention though. We actually do offer a plugin that allows to restrict coupons to group members Group Coupons but I’m not sure if that this is related to what you’re asking.
      
      Cheers
      
      Reply
Ryan Narendra

November 13, 2018

Hi,

My coupon still able too see even is already expired. how to fix it?

Reply
1. Kento
  
  November 14, 2018
  
  Hi, if the coupon has expired it can still be shown although it won’t apply anymore – you can see examples on http://docs.itthinx.com/document/woocommerce-coupons-countdown/
  
  Reply
William Luznicky

September 22, 2018

Hi, The countdown timer is not displaying correctly on my coupons. The numbers appear in black font and do count down, however, immediately to the right of them (where it should display “days’, Hours”, etc.) it displays a white oval with white font – the words are invisible.
How do I correct this?
I am using a Hespia Child Theme in WP.
Thank you,

Bill

Reply
1. Kento
  
  October 12, 2018
  
  Hi Bill,
  
  I would recommend to ask the developer of the child theme for help with the appropriate CSS rules needed to adjust the appearance of the theme.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
Larry Corsa

February 14, 2017

Hi. I don’t think my Coupons Countdown is working properly. With the plugin activated, when I go to Woocommerce > Settings > Coupons, it is only showing the standard Woocommerce coupon options. If I refresh the page, I can briefly see the extra fields provided by Coupons Countdown. My regular theme is Divi, but I have deactivated ALL plugins except Woocommerce and Coupons Countdown, and have tried with stock Woocmmerce themes, but the problem remains. Help with this is appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry

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1. antonio
  
  February 17, 2017
  
  Hi Larry,
  Sorry I can not replicate this issue. If you send me dashboard admin access to antonio[at]itthinx[dot]com indicating this conversation, I’ll have a look at this.
  Kind Regards,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
Thomas

November 8, 2016

Hello,

Can’t get the plugin to work for me.

Just want to limit the use of the coupon so that customer can only use the coupon one time.

Please help!

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1. antonio
  
  November 9, 2016
  
  Hi Thomas,
  you can limit the coupon usage from the “Usage Limits” tabs when you create the coupon.
  http://i68.tinypic.com/v9ogg.jpg
  Kind Regards,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
Fabrice Elfassy

September 16, 2016

Hi, I’ve just created a coupon which should expire 48 hours after user registration.
In my user optin, I’m defining two ways to register: 1) sign-up via pop-up on website 2) sign-up via landing page

How do I link these registration methods to the plugin user registration?

Thanks,
Fabrice

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1. antonio
  
  September 16, 2016
  
  Hi Fabrice,
  you don’t need to link the registration with the plugin.
  When someone tries to use the coupon, then the plugin check when the user was registered.
  Kind Regards,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
  1. Fabrice
    
    September 22, 2016
    
    Hi again Antonio,
    Other question for you, please…
    
    The ‘Guests Allowed’ option doesn’t seem to be working when we set an ‘Expiration after user registration’?
    In other words, whenever we try to purchase an item as a guest on our website, we get an ‘Invalid Coupon” error message on our website.
    
    How can we fix this?
    
    Many thanks,
    Fabrice
    
    Reply
    1. antonio
      
      September 22, 2016
      
      Hi Fabrice,
      really both options seem incompatible. If you select Guest Allowed, only guest users can use the coupon, so it makes no sense to have an ‘Expiration after user registration’ value.
      Kind regards,
      Antonio B.
      
      Reply
Keenan Flogerzi

April 28, 2016

Hi… I’ve created a coupon set to expire 1 hour after user registration. It shows up for 1 hour correctly, but says “Never Expires”. How do I make sure it shows that it will expire in 1 hour?

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1. antonio
  
  April 29, 2016
  
  Hi Keenan,
  Where you can see the “Never Expires” message? Please shares your coupon settings ( you can use http://tinypic.com/ )
  Thanks,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
  1. Keenan Flogerzi
    
    April 29, 2016
    
    Hi Antonio,
    
    I see it on the “My Account” page, and the “Cart” page, where the coupon is displayed in a blue box. See screenshots:
    https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz5-JwzzmtZ0OG9zR3RPa1NuTGs&usp=sharing
    
    Thanks
    
    Reply
    1. antonio
      
      May 2, 2016
      
      Thanks,
      Your settings seem correct. I can see you have extra options in your ‘General’ coupons tab, ‘Pick Product’s Price’, ‘Auto Generation of Coupon’ and ‘Show on cart/checkout’. Maybe you have another plugin to add these options that is not compatible with our plugin. Please try to disable the other plugin.
      Kind Regards,
      Antonio B.
      
      Reply
      1. Keenan Flogerzi
        
        May 2, 2016
        
        Unfortunately that wasn’t an option. Its the official “Smart Coupons” plugin by Woocommerce, and its crucial to the site.
        
        I was forced to modify that plugin slightly in order to make them play nice. I don’t think its the fault of either plugin, just 2 different approaches to displaying coupons and they aren’t compatible.
        
        In case you’re wondering, I created a conditional statement inside the ‘show_available_coupons’ function of Smart Coupons that checks if any of the expiration fields from Coupons Countdown are set. If so, I output the Coupons Countdown shortcode instead of the Smart Coupons default output.
        
        Reply
        
        antonio
        
        May 3, 2016
        
        Hi,
        I’m glad you found the solution. I’d appreciate if you might share the code to the community.
        Thanks,
        Antonio B.
        
        Reply
        
        Keenan Flogerzi
        
        May 3, 2016
        
        Sure… so in “woocommerce-smart-coupons/woocommerce-smart-coupons.php”, around line 2565, this is what I modified:
        
        https://gist.github.com/keeneyemedia/f5b476993cc0aa3cec98966ec0c87c9d
        
        Reply
        
        antonio
        
        May 3, 2016
        
        Thanks !!
        Kind Regards,
        Antonio B.
        
        Reply
phil salt

October 28, 2015

Hi,

Can your plugin automatically apply a coupon to a new
user account registration, when the user purchases just
after registering a new account?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

Reply
1. Kento
  
  October 29, 2015
  
  Hi Phil,
  
  It depends on where in the process the coupon should be made available. To automatically apply a coupon you can use WooCommerce Volume Discount Coupons. To limit the number of uses per customer you can use WooCommerce Coupons Countdown – it also has an option to allow guests to use it, otherwise the coupon would only be available once the customer has registered and that may or may not apply to the first purchase.
  
  Cheers
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
mark

July 14, 2015

Hi Guys!
Just checking to make sure before I purchase..
I need to set an hour time limit on the coupon after they use it once. Meaning I’d like to set the limits to unlimited, but immediately after the user uses the coupon it expires.

We’ve had issues with usage limits causing problems with customers not getting the coupon because the browser failed, etc.
So if we remove the usage limits and just set the coupon to expire 1 hour after checkout using the coupon it will negate the customer being able to use the coupon again.

So it’s a time limit after the coupon has been used once.

I think it does that.

Mark

Reply
1. kento
  
  July 15, 2015
  
  Hi Mark,
  
  Isn’t what you want simply to restrict the coupon to one use per customer? There’s an option for that, see Coupon usage limits per user please on this option.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
  1. Mark
    
    July 20, 2015
    
    Hi Kento!
    We bought the plugin and I’m setting the usage after purchase to 4 hours but it keeps reverting to 4 days, like the hours won’t take.
    
    I’ve logged in and out, and cleared the caches. What do you recommend.
    
    Mark
    
    Reply
    1. kento
      
      July 22, 2015
      
      Hi Mark,
      
      You’re right, under “Expiration after last order” it won’t take “Hours” – that’s a bug that needs to be fixed. I’ll review it and issue an updated version to fix this. Thanks for reporting the issue!
      
      Cheers
      
      Reply
      1. mark
        
        July 23, 2015
        
        HI Kento
        
        Great plugin, we’re just having an issue where my boss was testing it in chrome and Safari in the same session , and it was not working with Safari. It was returning COUPON INVALID.
        
        What are your thoughts?
        
        What we are trying to achieve is a person receives a coupon in the autoresponder, and they can use it once per customer. We tried this with normal woo functionality, but people kept comlaining that the coupon wouldn’t work so I set the limits to like 4 and 4 to give them enought attempts to get the coupon to work.
        
        So then we found your coupon and bought it, and I set the coupon to expire 1 day after last checkout, not realizing that some folks did not use the coupon on the checkout, and when they returned to purchase again the coupon had expired.
        
        Also, how do I login and leave a support issue since I’m a buyer? I tried to login and it won’t take. Or do you just want me to leave issues here?
        
        Mark
        
        Reply
        
        kento
        
        July 26, 2015
        
        Hi Mark,
        
        For this plugin, posting here is ok.
        
        If you just want them to be able to use it once, there is an option for that under Expiration > Usage limits per user. This option is more straight-forward for what you want to achieve and wouldn’t be limited to a certain amount of time.
        
        Cheers
        
        Reply
Lee

June 15, 2015

I want to create a coupon whereby anyone who visits the site will have an hour to use the coupon to get the discount. Can this be done? Looking at the questions, it looks like someone else wanted this feature about a year or so ago.

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1. antonio
  
  June 18, 2015
  
  Hi Lee,
  you can set a limit time for so many hours, days, weeks, months or years after registering. User need to register to start the countdown.
  Regards,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
Clare

April 21, 2015

That would probably have been useful information, sorry…. it’s displaying on the “Profile” page once you log in: http://dev.greenbee-web.com/previse/profile/

[coupon_countdown code="newmem15"]

except it apparently isn’t showing now, because it’s expired for all users, even newly registered ones. It must be something to do with the other plugins. Let me know if you’d like me to make you a user account. thanks!

Reply
Clare

April 17, 2015

Hello. I installed Coupon Countdown on my website and set the option for “Expiration after user registration” for 14 days. When I create test users and log in, it doesn’t seem to recognize the different users – all the users have the same amount of time left on the coupon, regardless of when I registered them. In some cases they were registered days apart. Do you have any advice for troubleshooting?

thanks,

Clare

Reply
1. antonio
  
  April 20, 2015
  
  Hi Clare,
  please give us an url to have a look.
  Thanks,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
  1. Clare
    
    April 20, 2015
    
    Hi Antonio. I’ve installed it on a dev site here: http://dev.greenbee-web.com/previse/ The user registration is actually done via Gravity Forms User Registration Add-on, if you click through the form here: http://dev.greenbee-web.com/previse/personal-skin-care-consultation/ So it’s not straight WP registration, but it’s been working with UserPro and the other plugins we have set up. If you think this type of registration would be causing trouble, I’d appreciate if you have any ideas of a particular field or setting I could look at to troubleshoot. Thanks!
    
    Reply
    1. kento
      
      April 21, 2015
      
      Hi Clare,
      
      Thanks for the URLs, I’ve created a test account but don’t find any coupon displayed … can you please create a test page showing the coupon you are testing using the shortcode [coupon_countdown code="..."] and let me know when you have added it?
      
      Reply
Nicoletta

April 13, 2015

Hi,

I have a questions before buy the plugin: does the option “Coupon usage limits per user” work even if my Woocommerce’s Version is 2.0.20 (and not 2.1)?

Thanks

Reply
1. antonio
  
  April 14, 2015
  
  Hi Nicoletta,
  I highly recommend that you upgrade WooCommerce.
  Your site may be in danger.
  Kind Regards,
  Antonio B.
  
  Reply
Ryan

September 30, 2014

Hello, I’m seeking a solution that satisfies the following:

Upon successful order, plugin will generate 2 coupons and automatically email them to customer.

Coupon 1 is for customer redemption and is one time use with no expiration. Coupon 2 is for customer to share and will have 10 uses before it expires. Email will have custom text explaining coupon usage.

Can your plugin accomplish this?

Best,
Ryan

Reply
1. kento
  
  October 6, 2014
  
  Hi Ryan, the plugin is not intended to generated coupons and doesn’t fit the requirements that you have outlined. Thanks for asking!
  
  Reply
Gabriele

July 28, 2014

Hello,

I have 2 questions:
1) Does the option “Coupon usage limits per user” show a counter to see how many times the coupon is still valid?

2) Does your plugin show a counter to check how many coupons are still available if I print N coupons (with the same code) to be distributed in public? say I print 1000 flyers with the same coupon code and write something like “the 100 first visitors can have a 10% discount with the code XYZ”, I’d like to show a counter on the website such as “hurry up! you are the 99 of 100 coupons available”.
I hope it’s clear what I mean 🙂

TIA !

Reply
1. kento
  
  August 1, 2014
  
  Hi Gabriele,
  
  No these options are not available but I think they are good suggestions for improvement. I’ll consider these to be added.
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply
  1. Gabriele
    
    August 7, 2014
    
    Thank you 🙂
    
    Reply
frankc

July 7, 2014

hi,
i have a stock vector website and i sell these vectors on demand.
I also want to offer one year coupon to customers who want to subscribe on my website ( subscription is like 3OO€/year ).
With this coupon that i will generate for each client, they can download the value of 5O€ max/month for 1 year.
I have the idea that coupon countdown could do the work good. Can you confirm me?
I have wordpress 3.5 and woocommerce 2.0.8
Thank you!

Reply
1. kento
  
  July 10, 2014
  
  Hi,
  
  I don’t think that this will work for you because from what you explain, I understand that you want to limit the monthly access to a maximum of 50$ worth of digital items. The plugin limits the validity of coupons, it doesn’t limit the amount of products you can purchase on a monthly basis.
  
  Cheers
  
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Les T Proctor

February 22, 2014

Per my screenshot above I’m using the Usage Limits Per User. That’s what I’m trying to do. But it’s throwing this error message regardless. how is it supposed to behave?

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1. kento
  
  February 22, 2014
  
  Ok now I see what you meant, what happens is that the message is produced by WooCommerce when the coupon is invalid. It’s not something that the plugin itself does. But it gives me an idea for a plugin to customize error messages by coupon 🙂 I’d be happy to have a look if that’s feasible and if it is, then provide you with a beta version for testing.
  
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Les T Proctor

February 21, 2014

This is my setting:

http://grab.by/uxU8

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1. kento
  
  February 22, 2014
  
  Thanks, ok that’s the plugin’s option. I’ve signed up a test account on the site to have a look.
  
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Les T Proctor

February 19, 2014

Hi

We offer a nutritional supplement with a free bottle to get people to try it. I bought this plugin to limit purchases to one free bottle per user. The problem I have is that if someone has previously purchased, it removes the coupon after someone tries to purchase, and says “this is an invalid coupon and has been removed from your cart”. It would make a lot more sense if the error message said: “Limit 1 per customer. Apologies but this is only valid for new customers” although that’s not ideal either.

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1. kento
  
  February 20, 2014
  
  Hi Les,
  
  Which option are you using? It sounds to me as if you’re using “Usage limit per coupon” instead of the “Usage limits per user” option that the plugin provides.
  
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Milque

February 18, 2014

Is it possible to have a coupon loaded at the moment someone opens the page for the first time, and have it count down from that point?

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1. kento
  
  February 20, 2014
  
  Yes that would be good to have, isn’t available yet though.
  
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  1. Milque
    
    February 20, 2014
    
    Hi Kento,
    Can you make it (happy to pay small fee) or can you give me some pointers as to what parts of the code to call so I can figure it out for myself? That’d be super!
    Thanks!
    
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    1. kento
      
      February 20, 2014
      
      Thanks, I think it’s a good suggestion and it would be useful to have it added to the plugin. Can’t promise a schedule but will take a closer look and see if it can be added soon.
      
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      1. Milque
        
        February 20, 2014
        
        Honestly, I’d be happy to part fund or something because we need it urgently given where we are with our development plan. Otherwise I’ll have to tie some code together or ask someone else for a hand. So any tips most appreciated! Thanks again!
        
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        kento
        
        February 23, 2014
        
        Thanks for the offer, it’s not really a question of funding, rather than fitting it into our schedule 🙂 The feature really makes sense to be added. I would assume that an approach based on a cookie would be suitable, it would just have to be added as an option in the plugin, so that the coupon is checked against when the cookie was placed and base its countdown on that. If you really need it quickly and want to hire someone to extend it, I’d be happy to review and include the extension in the plugin.
        
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Sandy

December 27, 2013

Your countdown examples show hours and minutes but the feature comments seems to only go down to days. I need a woocommerce plug-in that will allow a coupon to be used for only one hour on a day. Is this possible with this plugin?

Thanks in advance…

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1. kento
  
  December 30, 2013
  
  Hi Sandy,
  
  Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve just added support for hours to the plugin and we’re testing it. The new release 2.3.0 will offer the option to limit it also to hours (the new release will be available this week).
  
  Cheers
  
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  1. Milque
    
    February 20, 2014
    
    Is this available yet? I couldn’t see from codecanyon the latest version / change log or from here. Probably didn’t look in the right area but we’re also looking for hours only. Cheers!
    
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    1. kento
      
      February 23, 2014
      
      Yes that was added in 2.3.0 (changelog.txt is inside the plugin’s root folder).
      
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Lance Cleveland

December 24, 2013

The coupon codes have disappeared since the last round of updates to WordPress 3.8 + the corresponding WooCommerce updates.

DEBUG_LOG / DEBUG_LOGGING has not indicated any obvious errors that would impact the coupons.

I just pulled down the latest zip from Code Canyon and it appears there are not patches as that is still version 2.2.0.

While I wait for an update I am pulling a copy of my current live site over to my staging server in case you need a login. I will email support – at this site if/when a login is requested.

Any clues?

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1. antonio
  
  December 27, 2013
  
  Hi,
  2.2.0 version is fully compatible with WordPress 3.8, so this must not be the problem.
  cheers
  
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Dave Andersen

December 3, 2013

Since this is a WP plugin, I expected the download to include a .zip that could be uploaded and installed directly. What I got instead was a file folder full of files and folders that probably live in a plugin .zip (don’t know, since I’m not a coder). Do I need to do my own packaging into a .zip file?

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1. kento
  
  December 4, 2013
  
  Hi Dave, what you download is the plugin as a zip file which you upload directly – you probably have extracted its contents and thus see the files the plugin contains. Simply download the file again, make sure you don’t unzip it and then go to Plugin > Add New > Upload and choose the zip file.
  
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  1. Dave Andersen
    
    December 4, 2013
    
    Mystery solved – and this may be helpful for others (or perhaps I’m the only one who got caught by this): Safari preferences has a check box to automatically open what they deem “safe” files that are downloaded. This includes zip archives. So if that box is checked, when a zip archive is downloaded, what you see in the downloads folder is the extracted version of the zip, and not the zip itself. And yes, I just recently moved over to using Safari from Chrome and Firefox, so that’s why I didn’t spot this earlier.
    
    The plugin is installed and working. Thanks for getting back to me.
    
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    1. kento
      
      December 4, 2013
      
      Thanks for the update, that explains it then 🙂 Please don’t forget to rate the plugin on CodeCanyon! Feel free to post any questions here if you need help.
      
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Larry

November 30, 2013

What is the proper forum to use for support for the Coupons Countdown plugin? I’m having trouble with PayPal Express returning an error when a coupon is used at checkout.
Thanks,
Larry

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1. kento
  
  December 2, 2013
  
  Hi Larry, this is the right place. What kind of error do you see please?
  
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John

October 3, 2013

Is it possible to configure the coupon so that it only allows a Product % Discount for one product when their are multiple products in a cart?

Thanks,
John

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1. antonio
  
  October 7, 2013
  
  Hi,
  you need Woocommerce Volume Discount Coupons plugin.
  cheers
  
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Lance Cleveland

October 2, 2013

Ouch – my previous question about expired coupons has even more urgency. My users are able to use expired coupons. Since once of the coupons I offer is 100% off Version 4 if you have purchased Version 3 within 30 days, this is a huge issue.

1) Users can see the 100% off coupon even after it has expired.

2) Users can ENTER the 100% off coupon and it is applied to their cart even after it has expired. I’m not talking a few minutes expired either, more like 200+ days expired.

Contact me via private message here and I can give you access credentials to check this out. I can also setup a mirror system on my dev box and do some debugging if that would help.

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1. kento
  
  October 3, 2013
  
  Ok that shouldn’t happen, maybe a conflict. Please send access to support at itthinx dot com and we’ll have a look what you have there. A mirrored test site would be preferred if possible.
  
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Lance Cleveland

October 2, 2013

I have 2 time-based coupons listed on my product page. They are showing up on the page even if they time has expired.

Is there a trick to hiding the coupons if they are expired?

I don’t want new users to see them as it will encourage them to wait for another coupon which will never happen. I only am offering coupons for my existing users that are upgrading from major release 3 to major release 4 so no need to show them EVER if they are expired.

See:
http://www.charlestonsw.com/product/slp4-pro/

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1. kento
  
  October 3, 2013
  
  The WooCommerce Coupon Shortcodes plugin should come in handy 🙂 If you enclose the countdown’ed coupons with the conditional shortcodes I think that should work.
  
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  1. Lance Cleveland
    
    October 3, 2013
    
    I tried that plugin, when the coupon is not valid it makes the remainder of the product page render with blockquotes (pre tag open?). I’ve posted this issue on the WP support forum for the plugin.
    
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    1. kento
      
      October 7, 2013
      
      Thanks Lance, I’ve posted a follow-up there – essentially: I think switching to plain text editor might help because the visual editor sometimes puts tags in there that mess up things.
      
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Kenny Salter

October 1, 2013

I’d like to create an optin page that captures the subscribers email address and gives them a countdown coupon that starts counting down after their registration is submitted.

Is this possible?

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1. kento
  
  October 3, 2013
  
  Hi Kenny,
  
  The part where you grant them a coupon that starts counting down after their registration is part of what the plugin is intended to do, so that one yes.
  
  For the opt-in page it depends on what exactly you want to achieve, but the plugin isn’t going to help you with that. If you just let users register on the page, then the coupon countdown will start right after they have registered. For example, you can create a coupon that is valid up to 10 days after registration.
  
  I hope that helps a bit 🙂 Feel free to ask if you need more info.
  
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  1. kenny salter
    
    October 3, 2013
    
    I was trying to figure out how to link site registration to my autoresponder email capture form.
    
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    1. kenny salter
      
      October 3, 2013
      
      I want to register the visitor to my woo commerce site and capture their email with the same form.
      
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      1. kenny salter
        
        October 3, 2013
        
        Could I use followupemails extension select user-signup-email type in combination with the coupon countdown? to capture a visitors email, register them to the site and give them a countdown coupon upon a completed registration?
        
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        kento
        
        October 3, 2013
        
        You mean the extension from WooThemes? I suppose that should work fine, the Coupons Countdown plugin doesn’t interfere in the registration process anyway, it just bases its calculation on when the user registered.
        
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    2. kento
      
      October 3, 2013
      
      Ah ok, well as long as the user is actually registered, the registration-based coupon countdown will be based on the date of registration.
      
      Reply
      1. kenny salter
        
        October 3, 2013
        
        Is there a plugin that will create a woo commerce registration form that I can use as a squeeze page? Could this be created with contact form 7 ?
        
        Will any wordpress registration form also register user to woo commerce?
        
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        kento
        
        October 7, 2013
        
        Have you checked on WooThemes’ extensions?
        
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Frank

September 20, 2013

Hi Kento

Thanks for the quick reply. I want to restrict total product quantity when using the coupon but the features of “coupon countdown” are important (ie setting the usage limits per user). Am I right in thinking this “volume discount coupon” and “coupon countdown” can work together to produce one coupon with features of both extensions?

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1. antonio
  
  September 24, 2013
  
  Hi,
  yes, you can use both plugins together.
  
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Frank

September 18, 2013

I want people to register on the site and then have a once-only use of a 50% discount coupon. This works fine. However, I need to restrict the maximum amount a person can buy when using the coupon and cannot see how to do this. Is it possible?

Thanks

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1. kento
  
  September 19, 2013
  
  Hi Frank, by maximum amount, do you mean the quantity of products or the $ order amount? If you need to limit the quantity, you might be able to use WooCommerce Volume Discount Coupons. If it’s the order amount by product, the limiting quantity could be derived and you could use that extension as well.
  
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Xancholy

August 28, 2013

Hi IT,

Very nice plugin. I am having a challenge creating the following conditions.

I have dynamic bulk pricing enabled on my catalogue. eg: 2 to 5 items = $5 discount kicks in, etc…

Can I create a coupon that offers 5% off if they purchase 1 of each item. If more than 1 then coupon should not be valid.

Please let me know how. Thanks

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1. kento
  
  August 29, 2013
  
  Hi there,
  
  This is actually a good idea, I suppose what you want to be able to do is say for example, this coupon is valid if you have purchased at least 10 units of that product in the last three months, this other coupon is valid if you have purchased between 2 and 9, and this third coupon is valid only if you have purchased one unit.
  
  The only thing that’s missing for the plugin to be able to offer this, is a couple of options with a minimum and maximum amount of units purchased on the ‘Expiration & validity based on products purchased’ panel. I’ll add these and release an updated version, you should see it within a couple of days.
  
  Thanks for the suggestion, I think this is going to be quite useful!
  
  I’d appreciate it if you could rate the plugin on CodeCanyon 🙂
  
  Cheers
  
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Jason

August 27, 2013

Hi Kento,

Thanks for considering the update for guests. Any idea on when that might be added? Will definitely rate on Code Canyon as we are finding great uses for this plugin.

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1. kento
  
  August 28, 2013
  
  Hi Jason, the update has just been released, please give it a try. There are other new options that you might find interesting as well, including the possibility to limit based on last order purchased and products purchased.
  
  I’d appreciate it very much if you rate it 🙂
  
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Nestor Arroliga Tellez

August 22, 2013

I purchased the plugin and the option “usage limite per user doesn’t work”. A couple of users have already used the coupon more than once. Please notify me when you fix this and a new update is available. Thanks in advance.

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1. kento
  
  August 23, 2013
  
  Can you please detail what coupons and settings you are using and also a link to the site so we can have a look please?
  
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  1. Nestor Arroliga Tellez
    
    August 23, 2013
    
    Well, in the general settings I entered 5.00 as Cart Discount, checked “Individual Use”, entered 200 as “Usage Limit”, and set an Expiry date.
    
    Then I installed your plugin and only entered 1 as “usage limit per user”. But then a user used the coupon twice (separated orders); so I tested myself and in fact I can use the coupon more than once.
    
    Am I doing something wrong?
    Thanks in advance.
    
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    1. antonio
      
      August 28, 2013
      
      Hi,
      Your configuration looks correct. If you want you can send us dashboard admin access to support at itthinx dot com and we’ll have a look.
      cheers
      
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Jason

August 21, 2013

Hi Kento,

We purchased plugin and works well. I’d like to set a usage limit of 1 for non logged in users (guests) to the site. My goal is to get the coupon to expire after one use for both guests and users.

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1. kento
  
  August 22, 2013
  
  Many thanks Jason, it’s great to hear that. Regarding a limit for guests, I’ve been considering this already and will provide that option in an update – give it a few days please until the update is tested and released.
  
  Please rate the plugin on CodeCanyon 🙂
  
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Jang

August 5, 2013

Dear Kento,

i want create a lot of code coupons on same times, “WooCommerce Coupons Countdown” can do that? and how to do that?

please help me,

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1. kento
  
  August 6, 2013
  
  Hi Jang, the plugin provides countdowns and other features but not bulk coupon creation.
  
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javitopo

July 8, 2013

Thanks, works perfect.

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javitopo

July 5, 2013

I’m sorry, I have written

I would like to make a coupon with countdown for online users.

wanted to write

I would like to make a coupon with countdown for OFFLINE users.

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1. kento
  
  July 6, 2013
  
  What I understand from what you describe is that you want a coupon with countdown which is not based on the user registration. That’s very easy to achieve, for example:
  
  Go to Coupons > Add Coupon and call it example, under Expiry date choose a date.
  
  Then use the following shortcode on your page: [coupon_countdown code="example"]
  
  The coupon will display the countdown for all visitors, independent of whether they are logged in or not.
  
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javitopo

July 5, 2013

Hi,

yes, the coupons appear when the user is connected.

But if in active coupon countdown, only serves to users online

I would like to make a coupon with countdown for online users.

link to site with 2 coupons, and without being online only seen the
one without countdown

http://www.esteticalacabina.tildegrafica.com/?page_id=500

Tanks

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javitopo

July 4, 2013

Hi, I bought Countdown WooCommerce Coupons by Codecanyon.

Coupons can not be seen when the user is not logged in, this to me is a problem. In next update is possible for a non-registered user can see the coupons?

Tanks

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1. kento
  
  July 5, 2013
  
  Hi,
  
  The coupons should show up even when the user is not logged in, unless there is a restriction for the coupons to registered users only. Can you provide a link to the site so I can try it out please?
  
  Cheers
  
  Reply