The following article shows you how to create a discount coupon you can distribute to VIPs or special guests to give them access to discounted tickets.

Discounts can be set as a percentage off the ticket price or a flat amount off the ticket price.

Configuring Discount Codes

1. Once you have successfully logged in, select the Manage button from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
2. Select the Add Coupons button.
3. Select Coupon Type Discount and set the coupon name to be something that will help you identify it in your reports, e.g., “Event Sponsors Code”. 
   1. Then set Code to be a code you would like to distribute, make it something hard to guess; not “discount”. Six characters or more is perfect.
4. There are two options for the discount coupon: either a percentage discount or a flat discount. You can select the appropriate option for your promotion.
5. Select Save and Assign. 

Selecting Events

The assign coupon page will appear. This will allow you to assign the coupon to any events you are running. You can add more coupons in one go by pressing Add another coupon to this assignment.

The two assignment options are:

Apply Coupons Globally Across All Events

Global coupons will automatically be assigned to every event you create, past & present. They’re handy if you want to make a “gift voucher” style coupon. The ticket limit specifies the number of times the coupon can be used across all events.

For example, a ticket limit of 3 would allow the coupon to be used twice for “event 1,” once for “event 2,” and then not allow any further uses across any events.

Assign to Individual Events

Coupons assigned to individual events and pricing levels will only be usable on those events and price levels selected during this step.

You will be asked to add events to the coupon press Add Events and then select the events you wish to assign the coupon to, as they are selected they will move into the right column. Once all the events have been selected press Make Selection to confirm.

You will then be asked to either apply the coupon to all price levels or to choose individual price levels. This allows you to segment code usage by a particular price level (if desired).

Choosing Apply to all price levels will allow the coupon to be used on all price levels, with the ticket limit setting the total uses of the code for that event.

For example, a ticket limit of 3 allows the coupon to be used twice on “Price level 1” and once on “Price level 2”, and no more thereafter.

Assign to Individual Price Levels

If you have selected the individual events and pricing levels option and selected Choose individual price levels you will be asked to choose specific price levels you would like the code to be valid on. 

Coupon Limiting

Select one of the following options:

Coupon limits apply to each selection individually – the ticket limit applies to each price level; e.g., a ticket limit of 5 allows five redemptions for each selected price level.

Coupon limits apply to these selections as a group – will allow the ticket limit to limit the total number of uses across all selected price levels. e.g., A ticket limit of 3 allows the coupon to be used twice on “Price level 1” and once on “Price level 2”, and no more thereafter.

Total Coupons Available: The maximum number of tickets that can be purchased using this code

Limit per Order: The maximum number of tickets that can be purchased using this code per transaction.

Taggable will allow attendees to automatically input the coupon by appending it to the event URL in the format:
http://www.showclix.com/event/demo-event/tag/50off (where demo-event is replaced by your Event URL and 50off is replaced by your code.)

A start and end date for the coupon can also be set; consider this the coupon's expiry date, after which it will no longer be accepted.