In this tutorial, I will show you how to create discount coupons code in Magento via 3 examples of different shopping cart rules that will help you set up rules for your own eCommerce store and let your customers take advantage of these great offers.

Step 1: Setup Free Shipping

To setup free shipping, you may follow these steps:

1.     Log in to Magento Admin.
2.     Click on Promotions –> Shopping Cart Price Rule.
3.     Fill in the fields; be sure to give the rule a Name and Description and decide whether or not you are choosing ALL Customer groups or not.
4.     In the General Information page in the coupon menu, select the Specific Coupon option.
5.     Enter a code in the coupon code field (can be letters or numbers).
6.     In the Uses Per Coupon field, specify the number of times a customer can use this coupon code if you would like to provide a limit. If not, leave blank.
7.     In the Uses Per Customer field, specify the number of times a customer can use this promotion if you would like to provide a limit. If not, leave blank.
8.     In the From/To Date menu, select a time frame for your coupon if you would like to provide one. If not, leave blank.

Make sure these conditions are met [none for this case]:

Make sure these actions are met:

And if you want something more specific, such as Free shipping on only a certain item, follow these actions:

Remember to click Save Rule to save all changes.

Step 2:  Create Buy 1, Get One for Free Coupon

Follow steps a-h from previous example first

Then ensure these Actions are met:

•     Set the Discount amount to 1. This is the quantity that is discounted (the Y value, the quantity received for free).
•     [Optional] If you want to set the number needed higher than 1, e.g., to 5, set the discount Qty Step (Buy X) to 5. This is the quantity the customer must purchase in order to qualify for the free item.
•     [Optional] If you want to set it to a specific product SKU, you can enter these in the Conditions on the Actions tab.
•     Click Save Rule to save all changes.

Step 3: Creating a Coupon Code for a Specific Product

There’re some cases that you just want to create coupon code for a specific product, it’s fine, you can do that:
Follow steps a-h from #1. Then, set the Conditions:

1.     On left sidebar, click conditions tab.
2.     Click the + button.
3.     Select Product Attribute Combination.
4.     Click + button.
5.     Select SKU.
6.     Now you will see the SKU.
7.     Place your product SKU here.

Note: If you are not seeing SKU in the dropdown, go to: Catalog –> Attributes –> Manage Attributes. Search for SKU attribute and set the drop down “Use for Promo Rule Conditions” to “YES.”

Then, set the Actions:

1.     Under Actions tab, choose how much you’d like to discount.
2.     Click Save Rule to save all changes.

Well done! You are now successful to create coupons for your Magento store!

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Top Links navigation is one of the basic blocks in Magento. Top links block allows you to create a personal area for the customer within your online store. Top Links includes: Login/Logout, My Account, My Wishlist, My Cart and Checkout links. By default «Top links» are located in the header, but they can be moved wherever you want if it’s needed. In this tutorial, we will go through how to manage and improve Top Links in Magento.

One of the most important differences between top links and regular static links is that when you add products to the cart or to your wishlist, top links automatically records products which were added.

Example of Top links in the default  Magento theme in the header:

Usage of Top links in Magento

At first we have to call the block.
php echo this->getChildHtml(‘topLinks’) ?>

You may not create in template: template/page/html/header.phtml, but creates in page.xml
<block type=”page/html_header” name=”header” as=”header”>
<block type=”page/template_links” name=”top.links” as=”topLinks”/>
<block type=”core/text_list” name=”top.menu” as=”topMenu”/>
</ block>

Now we need to add links to this block by using the command:

<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” >…</action>

We gotta make it in the following XML files:

•     Login/Logout, My Account – customer.xml
•     My Cart and Checkout – checkout.xml
•     My Wishlist – wishlist.xml

It should be noted that link to  My Cart calls by the command:
<action method=”addCartLink”></action>
and
<action method=”addCheckoutLink”></action>
for Checkout link.

How to edit Top Links in Magento

All top links are based on a template which is located here: page/template/links.phtml. Here you can add additional classes or commit needed changes.

Often people want to use separate links. For example Login/Logout and My Account should be on the left side and My Wishlist, My Cart and Checkout on the right side.

Something like on the example below:

We can make this in a few simple steps as below:

Open page.xml and create another block there, almost identical to “topLinks” but with name  “topLinksLeft”;

<block type=”page/html_header” name=”header” as=”header”>
<block type=”page/switch” name=”store_language” as=”store_language” template=”page/switch/languages.phtml”/>
<block type=”core/text_list” name=”top.menu” as=”topMenu”/>
<block type=”page/template_links” name=”top.links” as=”topLinks”/>
topLinksLeft”/>
</ block>

In template template/page/html/header.phtml with help of the command:

php echo this->getChildHtml(‘topLinksLeft’) ?>

We can call our block in the proper place:

<div>
<h1 id=”logo” title=”<?php echo $this->getLogoAlt() ?>” style=”background-image:url(<?php echo $this->getLogoSrc() ?>);”><a href=”<?php echo $this->getUrl(”) ?>”><?php echo $this->getLogoAlt() ?></a></h1>
<div><?php echo $this->getChildHtml(‘topLinksLeft’) ?></div>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml(‘topLinks’) ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml(‘topMenu’) ?>
</div>

When you’ve done, open customer.xml  where we have to change the name of the block which is responsible for Login/Logout, My Account. We are changing its name from “top.links” on “top.links.left” as in example:

customer_logged_in>
<reference name=”top.links.left”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”customer”><label>My Account</label><url helper=”customer/getAccountUrl”/><title>My Account</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>10</position></action>
</reference>
<reference name=”top.links.left”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”customer”><label>Log Out</label><url helper=”customer/getLogoutUrl”/><title>Log Out</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>100</position></action>
</reference>
</customer_logged_in>

We also can assign other template to the links on the left ( rather useful in some cases) For that we just have to duplicate  template “page/template/links.phtml” and call it links_left.phtml. So now we have 2 templates “links.phtml” for the right side and “links_left.phtml” for the left side. Now all we need to do is just connect it. For connection we use block «topLinksLeft» page.xml and change it to links_left.phtml.

<block type=”page/html_header” name=”header” as=”header”>
<block type=”page/template_links” name=”top.links” as=”topLinks”/>
<block type=”page/template_links” name=”top.links.left” as=”topLinksLeft” template=”page/template/links_left.phtml” />
</ block>

Now you can apply different styles and HTML for the left and the right side.

Wow, almost forgot about “Register” button which is usually located near the “Login/Logout” button. No worries about that as well. As you can already guess we start from customer. xml file where we do next, if we want to add “Register” button to the top links:

<customer_logged_out>
<reference name=”top.links”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”customer”> <label> Log In </ label> <url helper=”customer/getLoginUrl”/> <title> Log In </ title> <prepare /> <urlParams/> <position> 100 </ position> </ action>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”customer”> <label> register </ label> <url helper=”customer/getRegisterUrl”/><title>register</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>10</position></action>
</ reference>
</ customer_logged_out>

Happy Coding! Hope it works for you.

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