MM's Gift Certificates and Mal's discount Vouchers are one and the same. You have to start in your MM admin area first and activate the GC, then set up the amounts you want along with expiration dates. Once you finish that you'll see a link to "update your Mals-E account ". Clicking that will give you all the info you need to fill out the Discount Vouchers in Mal's.
These can be used by multiple people, multiple times.
Activate and Set Up Your GC Page
1 ) Click on Gift Certificates under the Site Extras heading in your storeadmin
2 ) Click to Activate the page on your site
GC Setup in Storeadmin
1 ) Give a description for your GC - you can leave it as is.
2 ) List the method you plan to send the certificates to the customer - this will show on the GC order page form on your site.( email, regular mail...etc)
3 ) List your first chosen GC amount. Here I'm listing that I want a GC with the amount of $5
4-6 ) Same as #3 - List any other GC amounts you may want. You can have up to 4.
7) Put in the number of months you want these certificates to be active. If you want them to be good forever just put an large number in here.
8 ) Click Update
Now Get Instructions On How to Setup GC in Mal's
Click on this link to get the exact instructions and info needed to set up discount vouchers in Mal's
Your Mal's Instructions
This is all the info you'll need to fill out Mal's discount vouchers so they're tracked in your storeadmin.
1 ) This is your voucher mask - it's very important - Mal's vouchers won't work unless you have this in place.
2 - 5 ) This is info needed to fill in the fields at Mal's. You'll notice it has the amount of the GC, and the Min/Max values that you need to add. Although it says in the "Type" field to add A fixed value of you can change this and make it a % once in Mal's
Mals Setup
Log into your Mal's account and go to Discount Vounchers
1 ) Enter your voucher mask - again, this is very important or your gift certificates/vouchers won't work.
NOTE: Enter it exactly as it was listed in the "Your Mal's Instructions" step above #4 - CMMYYNNNN - these exact letters, make sure they're all caps.
2 ) Here you can see that I changed from a fixed value to a percent of - this field can be changed, just don't change the amounts unless you change them in your storeadmin as well.
3 ) You can also add an alias to make it easier for your customer to remember.
4 ) You have one extra voucher field that can be used for something like a free shipping voucher - or whatever you'd like.
5 ) Click UPDATE RECORD
That's it! You've set up your Gift Certificates
What Number Do I give My Customers?
You can give the alias ( if you set one up ) for a particular voucher to your customer - these are a bit easier to remember. In the set up above you would give "5PercentOff" as the voucher code to use for the customers you want to have 5% off at check out.
If, however, you want to create voucher number to give out to your customers you'd use the following instructions for creating them with our voucher mask of CMMYYNNNN:
C = Code Which is a number in the range 1 to 5 that corresponds with the discount line.( the red highlighted column in the image above ).
MMYY = The expiration date of the voucher. The year must be less than 68 (2068).
NNNN = Is the issue number. It must fall within the ranges you set-up below for that Type and Code.
If we want to create a voucher number to give our customer for say...code 2, which in the example image above is a fixed rate of $10 off the order you could issue the following voucher number:
205092000
This would translate as:
code 2 which is the fixed $10 off the order
it expires on May 30, 2009
and since this the first voucher number I've created to give out I started with 2000 since that's the minium issue number for this discount code.
Once you've issued voucher numbers ( or aliases ) to your customers don't change the voucher mask because that will in effect make all the vouchers issued up to that point invalid.
Vouchers are validated against the voucher mask. This defines what each number in a voucher means and should be composed of these same characters; a C, two Ms, two Ys and a number of Ns matching the maximum range you set-up below. A voucher mask can also contain noise characters which are ignored. So the most basic voucher mask is indeed CMMYYNNNN. However you can mix-up the characters if you like.
