Discounts

Discounts

Taramala supports discounts using coupon codes. If a student knows a coupon code, they can type in the code during the purchase phase for any item and Taramala will apply the related discount to the purchase.

Taramala has two levels of support so that even studios that use the BASIC plan can leverage coupon codes for discounts at their studio. The STANDARD plan also includes support for the following features relating to discounts.

• Allow only once which only allows a coupon code to be used once by a student,
• Start and end dates to enable and disable a coupon code on a given date,
• New student: coupon codes that are only available to "new" students,
• Membership: coupon codes only available to students that have an active subscription or punch card.

Types of Discounts

As well a simple coupon code discount, Taramala also supports New Student and Membership discounts. These types also require a coupon code though in there case you can make the code public since it will only apply for new students and members respectively.

• New Student discounts allow you to decide for how long a student will be considered a new student. For that period of time, after a student creates an account, the student will be able to use the discount.
• Membership discounts use the idea of a membership. The usual example for this would be students that have an active subscription but it could apply to students that have bought a regular or custom punch card.

Setting up a coupon code

Go to the Setup tab and on the left, there is a navigational tab for 'Discounts'. When you are in that tab, you can create new coupon codes.

To setup a coupon code, enter the code itself that students should enter to apply a coupon code to a purchase and then enter the percent discount that should be taken off the purchase price for that item. You can also create multiple coupon codes.

Attaching the coupon code to punch cards, etc.

You can either attach the coupon code to all drop ins, events, punch cards and subscriptions or attach them individually. To attach to all items, click the 'Apply to All' checkbox shown above.

To attach to individual items, go to the item, for example punch card which is shown below and click the coupon code that you'd like to enable for this item.

If you don't see an option an option to attach coupon codes, it may be that the custom pricing scheme that the punch card or event uses is not compatible with coupon code discounts. For example, coupon codes cannot be used with donation based or sliding scale pricing.

Setting up a coupon code (Extended Support)

The STANDARD plan provides support for more discount related features. Below is an example of a setup screen for a New Student discount.

This image highlights the features:

• Type when you create a discount, you can create either a standard coupon code or a New Student or a Membership discount,
• Number of Days which is applicable to New Student discounts. Allows you to decide for how many days a student is eligible for this discount after creating a new account in Taramala.
• Start Date / End Date: for any discount you can set a period of time on the calendar in which this discount is active. Note that the End Date is exclusive so the discount will begin to be inactive on that date.
• Allow only once. When selected, a student will only be able to use a discount once. When not selected, the student can use this discount as many times as she would like.
• Allow on Classes. Allows the discount to be used on the drop in fee for regular / non-custom classes.

Setting up a free class for new students (example)

For example, to set up a first class free discount for new members, do the following.

• Create a New Student discount,
• Set the code to be 'FIRSTCLASSFREE' (note that it's not case sensitive),
• Set Number of Days to 30,
• Click Allow only once, so that it can only be used once.
• Click Allow on Classes which will enable the discount for any regular class drop in.

How coupon codes are shown during checkout

Once enabled, students will be given an option to type in the coupon code during checkout.