Function documentationCoupon Code Retrieval

 

Coupon codes are used with coupon campaigns. The coupon code uniquely identifies the coupon so that manufacturers, clearing houses, and retailers can validate the coupon.

With external clearing, the coupon codes are communicated to you for each product category by your clearing house and must be created in a separate maintenance transaction before use in campaigns. You usually receive a range of codes for a certain product category from the clearing house and can maintain these codes by range. Each code can only be used for a coupon once.

With internal clearing, coupon codes are generated manually.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined a campaign type with Coupon set to External Clearing or Internal Clearing, depending on the type of coupon campaign that you are running.

    You do this in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), by choosing Start of the navigation path Marketing Next navigation step Marketing Planning and Campaign Management Next navigation step Basic Data Next navigation step Define Types/Objectives/Tactics. End of the navigation path

  • For external clearing coupon campaigns only:

    You have completed the Customizing settings for CRM, by choosing Start of the navigation path  Marketing Next navigation step Marketing Planning and Campaign Management Next navigation step Coupons End of the navigation path

    You have created the clearing houses with which you work as business partners with the category Organization and have generated a range of coupon codes for the clearing house using Coupon Code Maintenance (CRMD_MKTPL_OFRCODE).

  • You have maintained your product categories or brands in Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Product Hierarchy End of the navigation path.

  • Using the BAdI Define Coupon Code Handling, you have defined how the check digits in your coupon code are determined and how the code is formatted. You do this in Customizing for CRM, by choosing Start of the navigation path Marketing Next navigation step Marketing Planning and Campaign Management Next navigation step Coupons Next navigation step Business Add-Ins End of the navigation path.

Features

Once you set the status of an external clearing coupon campaign to Released:

  • The next available coupon code for the clearing house is assigned to the Coupon Code for the campaign.

  • The coupon data is stored in the CRMD_MKTPL_GD3PT table, which can be processed by a third party agency to, for example, write a report to read the coupon data and plan this report to be run as a job.

With internal clearing, you assign the coupon code to the campaign manually.

Activities

From the SAP Easy Access menu, using Coupon Code Maintenance, you can generate a range of coupon codes for a clearing house. This is an administrative function that is performed, for example, on a yearly basis, after you have completed coupon campaign planning.

  1. You first define the clearing house whose coupon codes you wish to enter. Choose Create and enter the desired clearing house using the input help.

  2. On the Create tab page, select the product category for which you want to use the coupon codes.

    Note Note

    You cannot access Coupon Product Cat. unless you have completed the customizing activity Assign Product Hierarchy to Clearing House.

    End of the note.

  3. Enter the first and last code of the range sent to you by the clearing house and choose Generate Coupon Code.

  4. You can remove any incorrectly entered codes by selecting one or more codes and choosing Delete Line.

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