Export promotion codes to IBM Marketing Center

We can export promotion codes from Management Center into IBM Marketing Center for use in campaigns and digital communications to customers.

IBM Marketing Center is a cloud-based solution that provides users with precision marketing capabilities to create, personalize, and manage marketing campaigns and send digital communications to customers with promotion offers. This solution also provides users with the capabilities to track marketing information and generate marketing analytics.

Before beginning

Ensure that the following tasks are complete:

• Create a promotion code export file that includes the promotion codes to export to IBM Marketing Center.

  When creating the export file, select the check box to Include metadata for IBM Marketing Center. By default, this option is selected when Management Center is integrated with IBM Marketing Center.

• Integrate Management Center with IBM Marketing Center.

Task info

We can export both unique and public promotion codes for a promotion and upload these codes into .

We cannot export promotion codes for an archived promotion.

Procedure

1. Open the Promotions tool.

2. From the explorer filter, click...
   Promotion Code Exports

   The Promotion Code Exports - List displays, containing a list of all promotion code export files. Verify your promotion code export file is in this list.

3. Download the promotion code export file to your local machine by selecting the promotion code export file and clicking...
   Download Promotion Codes

   Save the file to your local machine.

4. Open to upload the exported promotion code file.

   We can open by selecting the Promotion Code Exports folder and clicking the icon...

   Manage Promotion Codes in IBM Marketing Center toolbar

   Note: We can also open by right-clicking the Promotion Code Exports folder, and selecting the context menu option.

5. Upload the promotion code export file into IBM Marketing Center.

   1. In the Manage Promotion Codes tab within your Workbook, click Browse.

   2. Locate and select the promotion code export file on your local machine.

   3. Click Import.

Results

The promotion code export file is uploaded into . We can now use to manage the promotion codes and include the codes within a campaign to deliver the codes to customers.

For more information about using to manage and use promotion codes, review the online help documentation that is available when we are working within .

Related concepts
Manage marketing externally with IBM Marketing Center
Campaigns
Marketing tool
Promotions tool

Related tasks
Exporting promotion codes
Creating promotions