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Last Post 8/4/2017 2:03 PM by  Will Strohl
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7/11/2017 1:13 PM
[quote=Kurt;127]Will, can you please explain in an understandable way how you do it? In babysteps OR a video![/quote]

Hello Kurt:

I'd definitely like to, but as Patrice pointed out, doing it is not necessarily something that would help everyone. There are many different directions that one might need to take this to accomplish the use case. In my experience, every single e-commerce site is built completely different. So a step-by-step tutorial or video could appear to be quite misleading to a large number of people - causing them to think that "Hotcakes sucks," or "it can't do that." In reality, if they took the time to just get to know the software a bit, they'd realize just how flexible it really is.

For anyone reading this, I'd instead suggest building a proof of concept towards an actual set of requirements, then ask specific questions here about how to get over any speed bumps.
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7/11/2017 1:16 PM
[quote=MooreCreative;140]I was going to reply similar, that the Rewards system within Hotcakes would be perfect for a points-based membership system.

You could also do some custom development to create managers and a way for you to assign points to users in a separate database table and have those as items you purchase within the cart such as a 1000 points product... then you can keep track of adding/subtracting points to the users values in this table.[/quote]

Ryan, you made me think of even another approach that could be used if the reward points system can't be used. For example, you might already be using it for it's original intended purpose. In this case, you could indeed use another data source and/or external provider to keep track of "credits" and build a custom payment method to communicate with that provider. The rest of my previously suggested approach would remain the same.
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8/2/2017 11:35 AM
I only see one downside to rewards, It likely would be tied to a specific account.

A much easier solution to this, would be to create a promotion with a 1 time use coupon code. You could then email this in a nicely design email with your own creative wording.

And no development needed!
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8/2/2017 4:29 PM
[quote=Adrian;231]I only see one downside to rewards, It likely would be tied to a specific account.

A much easier solution to this, would be to create a promotion with a 1 time use coupon code. You could then email this in a nicely design email with your own creative wording.

And no development needed!
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There isn't a one-time-use coupon feature yet. Just "coupon" at the moment. But that was always on the roadmap to add.
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8/2/2017 4:54 PM
Dang, almost nailed it.

Well, seems pretty useful and nice to have.

Either way, little bit of programming could make this one a little easier with a on order complete action delegate extension.

Thanks!
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