Creating Offer Codes

Learn how to set up offer codes to provide customers with discounts and promotions, enhancing their shopping experience and boosting your sales.

Written By Stephanie

Updated on October 7th, 2024

Offer Codes allow you to offer discounts to your customers using promotional codes such as a Military discount or a special holiday discount. 

Unlike Manual Price Adjustmentsoffer codes can be defined with your business logic, restricting the use to certain dates/times, date ranges, or experiences.

 

How to Create Offer Codes 

  • From the dashboard, select More > Discover More

 

  • Select Offer Codes 

 

  • Select Create 

 

  • Select a Code name for your offer. This is what your customer will enter during checkout 

 

  • Select an Internal Name for your offer code. This will appear on your dashboard, reports, and on the customer order

 

  • Set a Public Description, which is visible on your website and on customer receipts 

 

  • Set up a dollar discount or a percent discount (not both)

How are offer codes applied to the trip total? 

Discounts will be applied to trips before sales tax, reseller commissions, manual discounts and fees.

 

 

  • Select your preferred Redemption Frequency 
    • Apply this price adjustment once for each booking on the trip: Use this option to apply the offer code to each guest on a trip
    • Apply this price adjustment once per trip: Use this option to apply the offer code one time to the trip total

 

  • Select the offer code Status 
    • Available: Choose this if your offer code is ready to use
    • Used: Choose this if your offer code has reached its maximum usage limit
    • Inactive: Choose this if your offer code is no longer available for use

 

 

Additional Offer Code Settings 

There are additional set up options – some required and some optional – to apply to each offer code. Expand the below sections to learn more about each setting.

Rules & Restrictions

Choose to limit your offer code redemption based on restrictions. All of these fields are optional.

  • Select Rules & Restrictions 

 

  • To restrict the use of your offer code to require a certain number of days prior to the activity date, set an Advanced Booking Window

 

  • If you require a minimum number of bookings for a trip to use this code, set up a Minimum Booking Quantity

 

  • Running a temporary promotion? Setting up a one-time offer code? Set a Maximum # of Uses to deactivate the offer code after it has been redeemed X amount of times

 

  • If this offer code should not be available to customers purchasing through your website, check off the box to Prevent Online Use 

 

  • Select Save if you're finished making edits. Otherwise proceed to the next tab
 
 

Dates 

Control the usage of this offer code by specifying a date range, time period, and/or days of the week. If no availability dates or blackouts are set, the offer code will be available for any booking and activity date.

 

Date Availabilities & Blackouts 

  • Select Dates 

 

  • From the first dropdown, select Available for or Blacked out for 

 

  • Select when this rule should apply 
    • Experiences scheduled between: The date of the scheduled activity, or 
    • Bookings created between: The date the trip was created 

 

  • Select a date period 

 

  • If you have multiple rules, select Add… to add additional 

 

 

Day of Week Restrictions

  • To prevent the use of the offer code on certain days of the week, select your black out days 

 

  • Select Save if you're finished making edits. Otherwise proceed to the next tab
 
 

Activity & Gift Cards

Most often, your offer code will apply to specific activities and/or gift card purchases. Ensure you have selected the specific activities and/or have enabled gift cards so the code can be redeemed. 

 

Selecting Activities 

  • Select Activities 

 

  • Choose the activities from the list 

 

 

Enabling Offer Code Use on Gift Card Purchases 

  • Scroll down to Gift Cards 
  • Select the checkbox to allow the use of the offer code on gift card purchases 

 

  • Select Save if you're finished making edits. Otherwise proceed to the next tab
 
 

Products 

Choose whether or not to allow this offer code to be used on product purchases. 

 

  • Select Products 

 

  • Select the checkbox to allow the use of the offer code on product purchases 

 

  • Select Save if you're finished making edits 
 
 

 

 

Offer code not working? 

Ensure you have selected the Activities, Gift Card, and/or Products for which the offer code will be available. For more details, expand the steps for Activity, Gift Card, and Product setup above.