Building a Coupon Engine

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the coupon engines they’ve built and use on their courses. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:12 Sponsor: Prismic 02:32 Sponsor: LogRocket 04:06 What we use for coupons Stripe

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06:27 Structure of our coupons 10:43 Products and carts 13:59 Country validation 15:11 Affiliate codes 16:36 Chaining rules together 19:41 Tracking coupons 20:54 Automatically applied coupons 22:12 Quick tips for coupons Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram

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