To use the system's Gift Certificates you have to have taxes and shipping set up a certain way, explained below, if these settings for tax and shipping will not work for your store you'll need to use the alternative ( and recommended ) Gift Certificate setup - instructions are here
Tax Setup - Your tax rate will need to be set up in the product and you need to use the third tax setting (using Buy Now links) in Mal's tax area, and every product will need a tax value. The reason for this is that Mals doesn't have a way to mark an item as tax exempt. So the only way to set some items as taxable and others as non taxable is to enter the tax amount in every item, then set up Mals to use the buy now links to get tax amounts.
Shipping Setup - Shipping will need to use the 'Units' value ( in the product edit screen ) to determine which items have shipping applied. In other words, the shipping has to be set up so that if units=0, there is no change in shipping - and if units are more then 0, shipping is charged. So you have to use one of the options that uses units (#3, #5, #7 - and *don't* click 'Automatically set units to equal the price'). Then, every item that should have shipping applied needs to have a Units value set in the item - and items that don't (like gift certificates) need a shipping units value of zero.
OR if you ship using Flat Rate you can set up the following:
Select Option 7. Check the box to set units = price. Then go down to the zone and reset it to show 1 zone. Click Update. Now name the zone (Shipping or whatever) and then in the fist box do this:
the first 999 $4.95 (or whatever your flat rate is).
Setting up GC - 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
| Log into Mal's and click the "Cart Setup" tab |
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In the left menu click "Discounts" to open the submenu selections
Then click "Discount Vouchers"
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Create your vouchers
1. Enter your alias or preferred voucher number ( MaySale, PTA, 20%Off..etc ) or leave blank and a code will be generated for you.
2. Enter discount type - % off, $ off, or Free Shipping
3. If you chose % or $ off, enter then amount here
4. If you want to set a minimum order for the voucher to be used - if this voucher should only be used on orders over $XX - enter that amount here
5. If you want to set a date this voucher will expire, enter it here. This is Month/Year
6. If you don't want this voucher used more then one time put a check in this box.
7. Click "Add Voucher"
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| If you left the Voucher Code field blank in order for a number to be generated for you you'll find that number in the "Code" column in your list of vouchers |
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