Share For Discounts is a WooRockets’s built-in plugin for Nitro theme. This plugin allows you to setup content sharing on social networks to get discounts. When enabled, anyone who clicks on these sharing buttons will instantly receive a discount coupon.
Open Share For Discounts
To open Share For Discounts, click on WooCommerce > Settings, then move to Share For Discounts tab.
Setup Sharing For Discounts
There are 2 main configuration tabs: Sharing and Discount.
Sharing
There are 3 social channels for sharing your content: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
To enable/disable sharing for a social channel, tick/untick the “Enable?” checkbox. Then you can see all settings for that channel. Here I enable sharing for all channels.
Now let’s get into more details on how settings for each channel work.
Facebook Sharing
Step 1: register a web app on Facebook App first, then copy the App ID to your Facebook Sharing screen.
To create a new Facebook App, login to your Facebook account and click here.
Then follow below steps.
Step 2: paste the App ID here.
Step 3: choose a sharing button type. There are 3 types of Facebook sharing button:
- Like and share Buttons
- Like button Only
- Share button only
Twitter Sharing
Enter your Twitter username to include your Twitter username on all shared tweets.
Google+ Sharing
There are 3 Google+ sharing button types to choose from:
- +1 and share buttons
- +1 button only
- Share button only
Discount
Types of discounts
There are 2 types of discount:
For both 2 types of discount, you can use discount Coupon to generate and mange discount coupons.
Product Discount
Setup share for discounts for a specific product
With product discount, you can:
- Setup and show share for discount for a specific product
- Hide or show share for discount buttons for all single product pages on your site that are displaying share for discount buttons
Setup share for discounts for a specific product
Here is how we can enable and setup product discount.
To hide product discount on a product page, just uncheck “enable?” box.
There are 2 types of product discount:
- Individual: applies discount for the user who like/share the product only.
- Mass: reduces the product price by the number of like/share received multiplying with the amount defined below.
To manage those who have used product discounts, click here.
Show or hide product discounts for all products
To show or hide product discounts for all products on your site, just open Discounts tab. Then check or uncheck the “Enable?” box.
Cart Discount
When enabled, the discount coupons will be applied for the whole shopping cart. In other words, total value of the shopping cart will be directly reduced based on the value of the discount coupon.
Options:
- Enable? Enable cart discount
- Discount Amount: Choose discount amount (percentage/currency)
- Link to Share: insert shared link
To manage those who have used product discounts, click here.
Discount Coupon
For both 2 types of discount, you can enable and setup discount coupons.
Step 1: enable discount coupon
The discount coupon will be automatically generated each time a customer completes a sharing action.
Step 2: configure discount coupon
To run discount coupon generator, you have to configure:
- Discount amount
- Link to share
Discount amount
Enter your amount for discount. There are 4 types of amount for discount:
- Cart Discount: discount x for the total cost your order on shopping cart
- Cart % Discount: discount x percentage for total cost of your order on shopping cart
- Product Discount: discount x for that product only
- Product % Discount: discount x percentage for that product only
Link to share
Enter the link that you want your customers to share to get discount coupon.
To manage those who have used product discounts, click here.
Manage share for discounts coupons
You can manage discount coupons to know how many discount coupons have been generated via share for discounts button. Click here to learn how to do it using default WooCommerce settings.
Display Share For Discount
After configuring Share For Discount settings, make sure that the social sharing buttons display well on your site.
You can display social sharing buttons in 3 following ways:
On shopping cart
After enabling and configuring cart discount, you will see social sharing buttons on shopping cart.
On product detail
After enabling and configuring product discount, you will see social sharing buttons on product detail page.
On anywhere you want
To display share for discount on anywhere you like on your site, open Discount tab on Share For Discount settings, then scroll down to find the shortcode for this plugin.
Or copy this below shortcode:
1 |
[share_for_discounts] |
You can add this shortcode anywhere you want to display share for discount buttons.