Building a Coupon Engine

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the coupon engines they’ve built and use on their courses.

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Show Notes

• 00:26 Welcome
• 01:12 Sponsor: Prismic
• 02:32 Sponsor: LogRocket
• 04:06 What we use for coupons
• Stripe
• Braintree
• 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

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