Free Shipping Coupon – How to Create One

[doug9149]

Hey there, I’m struggling on figuring out how to create a Free Shipping coupon to my site. I don’t want to use the automatic option, I want a specific coupon to be used. In Add A Coupon, I tried entering condition Free Shipping if Total Over 0, but am told I need a discount number greater than 0. I suppose I could make the discount $.01, but that just seems silly. Is there really no vanilla free shipping coupon option?

EDIT: Actually, I just tried making the discount for $.01 with Conditional [Free Shipping if Total] [is greater than] [0] and that didn’t work either. The coupon, when entered, took $.01 off and the shipping cost is still there.

BTW, we have the shipping set up like this: Base cost $4 and each individual item bought adds $1. So 1 item = $5 Shipping, 2 = $6, 3 = $7, etc.

FINAL EDIT: I figured it out. I saw somewhere in the documentation that amounts have to be greater than 0 to trigger and if you enter in small amounts like .001 this will still cause a trigger and not actually lower the cost of the item.

So here’s what worked, for anybody else who may want to do this:

Enter the coupon code you want to use

Enter .001 as the Discount Value and use $

Use Condition: [Free Shipping if total] [is greater than] .001

Thanks!

[Ivy]

Yes this would be the best workaround for this. Thank you for sharing this information.

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