Coupons

The inspiration for this tutorial was another tutorial I found on the internet where it was recommended to create WooCommerce coupons using the wp_insert_post() function and update_post_meta(). When working with WooCommerce data since the 3.0 version it is always recommended to use CRUD objects. Coupons are not an exception.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a coupon programmatically in code using two methods – the WC_Coupon object and the REST API. Plus, as a bonus, I will show you how to generate coupon codes programmatically.

All right, let’s do it and begin with something simple.

In this tutorial I am going to show so many different ways and conditions how you can apply coupons in WooCommerce.

But the very first thing you have to keep in mind is that coupons can be applied either to products in the cart or to products in an order.

In the previous tutorial we already discussed how to check if a specific coupon is applied to cart or to an order. But in this tutorial I will show you a different thing – how to find out programmatically if coupon with a specific code is actually created in WooCommerce admin.

In this tutorial I am going to cover different ways how you can check if a specific (or any) coupon has previously been added to WooCommerce cart or to a specific order.