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coreFORCE Basic - Promotions: Setting up Holiday Promotions


coreFORCE Basic - Promotions: Setting up Holiday Promotions


As the holidays draw near, it’s an ideal time to revisit your holiday markup strategies! In this article, we’ll cover how to offer promotional codes or coupons to your customers and how to adjust your pricing markup for the season.


Please Note that setting up a pricing structure is optional and not usually used in s short term promotion as you will have to inactivate the pricing structure once the promotion has ended.


  1. Setting up a Promotion code


We'll start here with establishing a promotion code in which customers can input at checkout


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  1. Click on Promotions


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  1. Click on ADD


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  1. Type in a name for your promotion


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  1. Type in your promotional code


This code is what your customers will enter at checkout.


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  1. Start Date


Start date will be the very first day this code will be usable at checkout. This is useful for limited run seasonal coupons!


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  1. Expiration Date


This will be the final day the promotional code will be able to be used at checkout


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  1. Minimum Amount


This will be the threshold that needs to be passed for this code to be utilized, leave this at 0 to be used in any order.


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  1. Maximum per email/user


If you would like a promotion to be once per customer all you will need to do is input a 1 into this field!


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  1. Apply Automatically


Apply Automatically will attempt to utilize the promotion code at checkout without your customers clicking a button at checkout!


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  1. Internal Use Only


This will make the promotion available for admin users only


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  1. Inactive


Inactive will make the code unusable by anyone


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  1. Click on Requirements


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  1. Requirements


Requirements is where we can establish items that need to be in the cart for this code to work. If you would like this to work with any cart leave this blank.

Please note any parameters input here will need to all be satisfied for the promotion to be utilized.


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  1. Rewards


Rewards is where we can establish discounts given for this promotion code


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  1. Order Discount Amount


Order Discount Amount will be a flat $ amount off, example "5" in this field will yield $5 off of the cart total


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  1. Order Discount Percent


Order Discount Percent is a percentage of the cart total, example "5" is 5% of the cart total


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  1. Click on Rewards


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  1. Discount Amount


A unique field to Product Discounts we have the ability to establish exact pricing for a specific product in our rewards


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Pricing Structure


  1. Click on Products


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  1. Click on Pricing Structures


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  1. Click on ADD


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  1. Give your pricing structure a name!


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  1. Click on your desired field


We'll use Department(s) for this example but you can establish this structure for Categories, Manufacturers and Specific Products as well!


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  1. Click on your desired department


We'll use Firearms for this example


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  1. Select your calculation type


coreFORCE supports Markup, Discount, and Margin pricing. We'll use Markup here


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  1. Type in your markup percentage


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  1. Click on SAVE


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Updated on: 05/29/2025

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