What is the difference between a voucher and a coupon?
There are many differences between Coupons and Vouchers but in many circumstances they can be used interchangeably.
Below are a number of examples of the differences between vouchers and coupons.
Vouchers can be generated in bulk while Coupons can only be created one at a time.
This makes vouchers useful for largeĀ business to business transactions. For example, imagine that a company wants to buy 500 licenses to your course and they requireĀ a unique code for each of their employees. With 1 voucher, you can quickly generate 500 unique codes and export a .csv of the codes that you can hand off to your customer.
To do this with a coupon would take you a very long time or you would have to compromise with this company, giving them one coupon code with 500 uses.
Video Demo of Vouchers
Vouchers can provide access to multiple courses and memberships in one “transaction” and coupons can only ever provide access to one course or one membership at a time.
If you wanted to give a student access to 5 different courses, you could give that student a voucherĀ that provides access to those 5 courses on redemption. The student could redeem this voucher and gain access to all 5 courses at once.
You would need to give 5 different couponsĀ to the student to acheveĀ this and they would need to move through the checkout process 5Ā individual times.
Alternatively, couponsĀ do notĀ haveĀ to be associated with a course or membership. If you wanted to give a student 100% to a course of their choosing, you could do this with a coupon but not with a voucher.
Vouchers can only be redeemed during new user registration (when enabled) and on the student’s dashboard.
CouponsĀ can only be redeemed on the checkout screen before a purchase has been made.
A voucherĀ is not associated with any payment within LifterLMS and therefore does not generate a LifterLMS Order.
CouponsĀ either discount or (in the case of a 100% off coupon) make a purchase free. They will always result in the generation of a LifterLMS Order. Explore LifterLMS Advanced Coupons for even more advanced coupon technology.
