Offering customers a promotional code or Coupon?
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Currently on our company website we have people register through us to start a profile, we are trying to promote our first month free where do I go to set this up?
Help Please!

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Welcome to the boards!
Are your customers going to be paying a set, monthly rate? If so, you might consider looking into using our Subscriptions feature - which can include a free trial period. There's more documentation regarding this and other features here, under Website Payments Standard: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/documentation#wps
Hope this helps,
Adrian
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I have the same question--I saw your answer and follwed the link to the Web Standard section but didn;t see any information on how to install a promotional discount -- my site offers music on a subscription basis & i'd like to ofer a 10 day free trial-any info you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
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We have also been wanting to be able to offer a discount or promotion code. We do not offer subscriptions though, so that suggestion would not work. We need a code or coupon for a sale.

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pltexas,
Website Payments Standard does not have integral support for a coupon code or a sale. However, you can still integrate a turnkey solution by working in a third party shopping cart with our buttons - check out https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/solutions for shopping carts that offer this service.
Hope this helps,
Adrian
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discount_rate_cart | Optional | Single discount rate (percentage) to be charged cart-wide. It must be set to a value less than 100. The variable overrides any individual item discount_rate_x values, if present. Applies only to the Cart Upload command. |

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Welcome to the boards!
While I can't advise you directly on how to use this variable, I would recommend checking out the documentation for Website Payments Standard here might help: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/wps
Adrian
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Paypal really needs to make this available. I have 1000s of products on my website and cannot go back and "unhost" them. It is crazy that Paypal cannot figure a way to make this happen. You finally figured out how to do gift certificates although you keep the money, which blows. Get those fine minds in Omaha working on this!!!!
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I agree. We have been with PayPal for almost 8 years now and would love to be able to offer discount codes
for our PraiseMoves customers and Facebook friends.
Is there ANY way to know if/as/when PayPal will be offering this? We do not want to go through another
carrier and implement into PayPal -- we prefer to stay with PayPal all the way!
Thank you for your consideration.
Laurette Willis
PraiseMoves.com
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I agree! This would be a wonderful option for paypal to include. I would much rather stick with paypal all the way instead of look elsewhere for a third-party service which might not have the same level of service and reputation I've come to trust with paypal.

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