Simple system-generated unique promotion codes

Simple system-generated unique promotion codes are created by specifying a simple set of inputs. The following inputs are required to generate simple system-generated unique promotion codes:

Prefix

Fixed characters located at the beginning of each promotion code.

Unique system-generated code length

The number of system-generated characters that are in each promotion code. These characters consist of uppercase alphanumeric characters.

Suffix

Fixed characters located at the end of each promotion code.

Number of unique promotion codes to generate

The total number of generated promotion codes to create, based on your business needs.

Code generation status

The status of the system generation of the unique promotion codes for the promotion. When you activate the promotion, the promotion codes are generated.

Note: Your promotion codes can fail to generate in the following situations:

• The promotion codes are already populated in the store database.

• There is insufficient space available on your system for generating the number of codes specified.

If your promotion codes fail to generate and are not already populated in the store database, contact your system administrator.

The maximum number of possible unique promotion codes to generate is calculated and displayed for reference, based on the unique system-generated code length input.

Each unique promotion code is stored in its own database table row. If the number of unique promotion codes to generate or populate is large, for instance over 100,000 codes, the database must be optimized to handle the processing of this data. Your database must have the required database space allocated to store the generated codes.

Sample output

Simple system-generated unique promotion codes resemble the following form when generated:

Prefix + Generated code + Suffix

Where, for example, the unique promotion codes sample results:

Sample simple system-generated unique promotion codes

Prefix	Unique system-generated code length	Suffix	Sample unique promotion codes
IBM	3	EVENT	IBM65BEVENT IBMJK7EVENT IBMXWTEVENT
SUMMER-	5	-SPECIAL	SUMMER-ABC12-SPECIAL SUMMER-B88BL-SPECIAL SUMMER-LMMKJ-SPECIAL
WINTER2010	2	-SALE	WINTER201055-SALE WINTER2010H9-SALE WINTER2010MC-SALE

Related concepts
Promotions

Related tasks
Importing promotion codes
Exporting promotion codes

Related reference
Advanced system-generated unique promotion codes