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October 12, 2020 at 8:06 am

Hi Louuise,

That’s more like a ‘gift card’ feature which is not something we have available at this tim.

The promotions add-on allows you to create promotions that apply to specific events, such as ‘25% off with code 25OFF’ (using a ‘coded’ promotion where the user enters a code) or ‘30% off all registrations this weekend only’ (using a ‘codeless’ promotion that applies automatically on the specific dates).

It does not store the amount used during the registration to be applied later etc.

Unofficially I do have a snippet that can be used as a simple gift card feature using ‘fixed dollar’ discounts within the promotions system but it applies to all promotions in the system that are not percentage discounts and isn’t officially supported by Event Espresso. You’re welcome to test if it will suit your needs here:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/c2dd51d7b5e117810d9b5b70b9366b87

October 12, 2020 at 9:54 am

Thank you for the test code, I will see if our website guy can test it for us but we would need it to work with EE.

The code I gave you does work with EE.

With the above code in place if you create a promotion code that is of a fixed value (so not a percentage discount) then when the promotion codes is used it will deduct the amount from that discount.

So say you create a $200 promotion code and the user uses that code for a transaction total of $50. That $50 is taken away from the $200, leaving $150 (sounds logical up to now right 🙂 ) but then when the amount remaining reaches 0 it will also set the ‘valid until’ date on the promotion to now() meaning it is no longer valid.

It’s still not ‘full’ gift card functionality but helps with some use cases.

October 12, 2020 at 1:23 pm

You’re most welcome, the above won’t suit all use cases but for simple gift certificates, it can help 🙂