Single Use Coupon in Square Marketing

I see that the Coupons are no longer going to be available within Square Online and you'll have to set them up now within Marketing.  Which is fine, I have no problems with that.  What I'm concerned with is that the "Single Use" functionality seems to have gone away.  Is that correct?  Did Square get rid of "Single Use" Coupons in the migration to Marketing?  Thanks.

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Hi @ericcow I assume you are referring to this announcement from Square.  If so, I am going to add my own personal observation from reading the announcement AND from the discussion in that thread.

 

While the announcement said that we should start migrating our existing coupons IMMEDIATELY, it did not mention the fact that it might be until March 25 until the new coupons were fully functional.  It seems from the discussion in the announcement that things like Limited coupons (which you are wanting) will be available by March 25, but that they might not be available now.  I’ve seen a few new features pop up over the last week so I can tell they are working on this.

 

If you don’t have a lot of existing coupons to move, I would strongly waiting until closer to 3/25 to do this migration.  For the life of me, I can’t understand why Square made an announcement and made it seem so urgent to do something NOW that can’t be done NOW.  It has only caused angst and confusion, not to mention anger.  But it is where we are.  This was not the best roll-out of a new feature that I’ve seen lately.

 

According to posts in the announcement, the Limited-use coupon feature will be in Marketing Coupons soon.  Again, I’d just recommend patience and maybe waiting until the third week of March or so to migrate your coupons. 

 

Also, note that limited coupons will now require you to be a paid Marketing seller, per the announcement.

 

Let me know if you have more questions.

Chip A.
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Hi @ericcow I assume you are referring to this announcement from Square.  If so, I am going to add my own personal observation from reading the announcement AND from the discussion in that thread.

 

While the announcement said that we should start migrating our existing coupons IMMEDIATELY, it did not mention the fact that it might be until March 25 until the new coupons were fully functional.  It seems from the discussion in the announcement that things like Limited coupons (which you are wanting) will be available by March 25, but that they might not be available now.  I’ve seen a few new features pop up over the last week so I can tell they are working on this.

 

If you don’t have a lot of existing coupons to move, I would strongly waiting until closer to 3/25 to do this migration.  For the life of me, I can’t understand why Square made an announcement and made it seem so urgent to do something NOW that can’t be done NOW.  It has only caused angst and confusion, not to mention anger.  But it is where we are.  This was not the best roll-out of a new feature that I’ve seen lately.

 

According to posts in the announcement, the Limited-use coupon feature will be in Marketing Coupons soon.  Again, I’d just recommend patience and maybe waiting until the third week of March or so to migrate your coupons. 

 

Also, note that limited coupons will now require you to be a paid Marketing seller, per the announcement.

 

Let me know if you have more questions.

Chip A.
Square Expert & Innovator and member of the Square Champions group. (But NOT a Square employee, just a seller like you)

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Thanks @TheRealChipA .  I had already decided to do that once I read further on that more features were being added.  I agree with you that their post about "DO IT NOW" is a bit misleading and confusing.  Thanks again.

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