Creating Discount Code Groups with Shopify

Once you connect with Shopify, GRIN lets you generate discount code groups and assign them to your creators, who can then share their discount codes so their audiences can use the codes when purchasing your products. Since your Shopify store is also integrated in GRIN, you can track a discount code’s revenue and attribute them to the associated creator. This is great for measuring your creator marketing program's success and tracking who your best creators are.

What you'll need

• A Brand integrated with Shopify. Learn more with our help article Creating your Brand. 

How to do it

1. Navigate to Brands, then select Discounts on the Brand you'd like to create a discount code group for.

Select Discounts to get started.

2. Select + Create Group.

Select Create Group to make a new discount code.

3. In Step 1. Group Options, complete the following fields:
   • Group name (internal use): The name of the discount code group that will be displayed in GRIN.
   • How should new codes be assigned?: Determine how your code group will be assigned to creators. If you want to generate codes in GRIN, choose Generated automatically. If you already have codes ready in your ecommerce store and would like to link those to a discount code group in GRIN, choose I have already created them. 
   • Code pattern: Create the code that will be assigned to creators. You can click and drag Variables into the code to update automatically based off of the creator. For example, if you use the [first_name] variable in your code pattern, then assigning a creator named Jane Brown the discount code group [first_name]10OFF will display as Jane10OFF for Jane.

4. Select Step 2. Discount Options and choose the type of discount you'd like your code to apply to purchases. 
   1. If you select either a Percentage or Fixed amount discount, you must also enter a Discount value. 
   2. If you select Free shipping, you must also choose whether to exclude some orders from this discount if the order is above a certain amount. If you choose Yes, you'll need to provide that maximum amount as well.
5. Select Step 3. Applies To and choose whether to apply the code to the Entire Order, Specific Collections, or Specific Products. If you chose Free Shipping in Step 2. Discount Options, discount codes will always be applied to the entire order and not collections or products. 
   1. If you selected Specific Collections or Specific Products, you'll also need to select those collections or products from your ecommerce store.
6. Select Step 4. Discount Requirements and choose whether to enforce a Minimum Requirement for the code to be effective. 
   1. If you select Minimum purchase amount or Minimum quantity of items, you'll also need to specify that minimum amount or quantity.
7. Select Step 5. Discount Usage Limits and complete the following fields: 
   • Limit the total number of times this discount can be used?: Choose whether to enforce a limit on how many times a creator's code can be used. If you do choose to limit uses, you'll need to provide a Total Limit as well. Each creator that's assigned this code will have that limit on their code.
   • Limit to one use per customer?: Choose whether to limit customers one use of this discount code.
   • Customer Groups: Choose whether to limit the code to only specific customer groups. If you do choose to limit it to specific groups, you'll need to select those groups as well from your ecommerce store.
   • Start Date, Start Time, and Timezone: Specify a start date and time, as well as your timezone, for when your discount code will become active. If you don't provide a date or time, your code will become active as soon as you Save it.
   • Set end date?: Choose whether to disable the discount code on a certain date. If you do choose to disable it, you'll also need to select an End Date, End Time, and Timezone. Otherwise, your discount code will remain active indefinitely.

8. Select Step 6. Affiliate Settings and select a Payout Type and the Payout Value that creators will receive when the discount code is used.

9. Select Save.

Save your changes.

 

Your discount code group has been created. Now, you're ready to generate and assign this code group to your creators. Once customers start using your creators' codes, you'll be able to track conversions and activity for those codes within GRIN.