Coupon Codes Explained
Social Chat allows brands to create coupon codes that give customers a predetermined percentage discount. Coupon codes will automatically sync with your Shopify store for customers to readily use. These codes are exclusive to each livestream and will present in the upper left corner on the livestream interface. Host have the ability to choose when the coupon code becomes visible to users during the live event.
During your Live Event, use the Visible toggle to make the coupon appear or disappear for your audience.
Two Ways to Create a Coupon Code for a Live Event
1. Upon the initial creation of the live event
- On the left sidebar, navigate to create a new event and fill out the form.
- To the right of the product selection interface, click add coupon.
2. After the live event has been created
- On the left sidebar, navigate to manage events and then click on event of interest.
- On the bottom of the event summary select view products and coupon.
You can manually add a coupon code to the Live Event or you can pull in an existing coupon code from your shopify store.
To manually add a coupon
Make sure the Add new coupon option is selected and type in the form fields shown below (title, description, code, discount type, discount value and expiry time). When you are done, click ‘publish’
To add an existing coupon from you Shopify store
You can also pull in coupons that have already been set up on your shopify account by clicking the ‘Add an existing coupon’ option:
Type in your preferred title and the existing coupon code into the text boxes and click ‘Lookup’.
A success message will appear and you are all set!
Note: If the code is not valid, you will see the below message and you can use the link provided under the text box to look up your existing coupons tied to your shopify store.
