Core Commerce provides the ability to create and manage gift certificates and coupons. (Collectively, these are sometimes referred to as “claimable items” in Core Commerce.) By providing gift certificates as an option for your customers, you can increase sales and attract new business. Coupons can also help increase your customer base (for example, by including them in a cold call e-mail campaign), but more importantly they provide an alternative way to deliver promotions to your existing customers.

If you are using Core Commerce’s multisite feature, you can specify at the time of coupon creation whether users can claim the coupon on any site, or only sites to which the associated promotion is limited. See the Merchandising Guide for Business Users for information.

The claimable item system in Core Commerce is made up of three components: