Managing Discounts

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Discounts are a significant part of an online merchandising system. You can use discounts to introduce new products, retain existing customers, or increase market share. Marketing managers create discounts to promote specific products to increase customer sales. Marketing managers run promotions, such as a spring sale to move inventory that is not selling. You can apply discounts to any item in your catalog. You can apply a discount against a whole order (an order-level discount), or against specific items in the order (an item-level discount). You use the Commerce Server Marketing Manager to create and manage discounts.

In This Section

• What is a Discount?

• What Are the Components of a Discount?

• What is Discount Priority?

• What Are Discount Awards?

• What Are Discount Eligibility Requirements?

• What is the Discount Sort Order?

• What Are the Discount Interaction Policies?

• Discount Types in Commerce Server

• How to Create a Coupon Definition

• How to Add Existing Coupons to a Discount

• How to Create a Coupon File to Import Coupon Data

• How to Export Coupons

• How to Set the Discount Priority

• How to Set Discount Interaction Policies

• How to Target Discounts by Using Expressions

• How to Target Discounts to Page Groups

• How to Copy a Discount

• How to Edit a Discount

• How to Approve a Discount

• How to Disapprove a Discount

• How to Restore a Discount

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