shopping cart discount issues

Question

We are running on magento 1.9.3.2 and usually know how to configure cart discount rules in 1.8 properly. In the new installation we have the following problems:

• when we add "free shipping" to the code and use it, it is not marked as used in the backend and be be reused
• When I use a specific code, again with free shipping (that is then properly applied) and return from the last onecheckout display to the cart and revoke the coupon code it is still applied, so revocation does not work
• when I define a discount with free shipping and zero product discount and use it it stays persistant for all consecutive purchases.

Answer 1

There's a couple of options that you'll want to make sure are checked when you are setting up a shopping cart price rule.

If you want to limit the usage, you'll want to:

• Require that end users have to enter in a coupon code.
• Limit the number of uses per coupon (such as 5 uses total or 50 uses total).
• Limit the uses per customer (i.e. to 1 or 5).

Please note that the usage limit is enforced for customers that are logged in only.

This is a feature of Magento. If you want to us auto-generated coupon codes, you can do that, and then those codes will only be able to be used a single time. The drawback is that you have to give each user a code.

I hope this helps...