Coupon votes
Visitors can report whether a code worked. Each coupon shows how many people said yes and how many said no, which tells the next visitor whether it is worth trying.
Switching it on
Settings → Coupons → Coupon votes. On by default.
With it off, the buttons disappear and the endpoint that receives votes stops existing entirely — there is nothing left to send a vote to.
Who can vote
Anyone, including signed-out visitors. That is deliberate: most people using a coupon site never register, and a working-code signal from only your members would be too thin to be useful.
One vote per person per coupon.
Why it is worth having
A code that used to work and no longer does is the most annoying thing on a coupon site, and you have no way of knowing it happened. Votes are the only mechanism that tells you — your visitors find out first, and this is how they tell you.
The other benefit is the visitor's: a coupon with fifteen positive votes is worth trying, and one with twenty negatives is not.
Acting on them
A coupon collecting negative votes is telling you something:
An imported coupon — the merchant probably ended the offer and the network has not caught up. Delete it, or wait for the next import to replace it.
A hand-made coupon — check the code yourself. If it is dead, remove it.
Worth a glance now and then, particularly on your busiest shops. Nothing else on the site will tell you a code has gone bad.
Reducing bad votes
Most avoidable failures are conditions the visitor did not know about. Filling in the coupon's description with the actual restriction — minimum spend, new customers only, excludes sale items — prevents both the failed attempt and the negative vote.
The same applies to the shop's exclusions field. See Shop info: every field.
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