Vendor Coupons & Promotions

No. The discount is applied only to the products of the vendor who created the coupon. In a cart with several vendors, the other vendors' products, orders and payouts are not touched.

Yes, one coupon per vendor, each on its own products, when the core setting Settings → General → Use single coupon is off. With that setting on (the CS-Cart default), a cart accepts one coupon in total, whether it belongs to a vendor or to the marketplace.

You decide in the settings: the vendor (default), shared in the ratio of the commission (the standard CS-Cart behaviour), or the marketplace. See Who funds the discount.

Yes. The add-on corrects the commission of the vendor order in core vendor accounting when the order is placed, so the core Accounting page, withdrawals and payout add-ons (including our Vendor Payouts Automation) use the right numbers.

Marketplace promotions are applied first; the vendor coupon is calculated on the price after them. You can forbid combining vendor coupons with marketplace cart discounts in the settings. A marketplace promotion with Stop other rules always blocks vendor coupons.

The discount is applied to item prices, in whole cents per unit. When the quantities do not divide the amount evenly (for example $10.00 over 3 identical items), the applied discount can be up to a few cents lower. It is never higher, and the cart shows the exact discount.

Yes, if you allow it. Free shipping removes the shipping charge of the vendor's own shipment; other vendors' shipments and marketplace-fulfilled shipments are not affected.

One use per vendor order. Orders that are incomplete, failed, declined or cancelled do not count, so cancelling an order gives the use back. "Uses per customer" and "First order only" recognise customers by account and by e-mail address, so guests are counted too.

No. The add-on does not give vendors access to core promotions. Vendor coupons are stored as core promotions behind the scenes, but they are hidden from the core promotion list and open in the vendor coupon editor.

Vendor coupons are stored as core promotions of the vendor, and that add-on applies a vendor's promotions in the vendor's own checkout, so the coupon works there. With that add-on vendors can also manage core promotions themselves; those are independent of this add-on.

No templates are changed. Customers enter the code in the standard coupon field. Applied coupons appear as promotions named "Vendor: Title" in the cart and in the order.

All vendor coupons with their promotions, the usage history, settings, privileges and language variables. Placed orders keep their discounts and vendor balances stay as they are.

No. Vendor coupons need Multi-Vendor; the installation is refused on other editions.

Without a valid license (no key after the 14-day start period, an invalid or revoked key, a domain the license does not cover, or no successful check for 14 days), vendor coupons can no longer be added to carts and vendors cannot create or edit coupons. Coupons already applied to a cart keep working until the order is placed, so a started checkout is never broken. Placed orders, funding adjustments and usage reports keep working. Once the license is valid again, everything is back.

Open Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Vendor Coupons & Promotions → Settings → License. The status line says what is wrong: no key, a key for another add-on, a revoked license, or a domain that the license does not cover. Fix it and click Check now. See License.

Yes. Subdomains of your licensed domain (for example staging.example.com) and local development hosts (localhost, private IP addresses, .local, .test) are covered by the same license.

Nothing changes for 14 days: the add-on keeps working and retries every hour. Only if no check succeeds for 14 days is it switched off until the next successful check.

No. The check runs in the admin panel or from cron, once a day. The storefront never runs it.