Generate unique discount codes in Shopify, hundreds at once

One code for everyone gets passed around

A shared code like NEWSLETTER10 is quick to set up. With the limit to one use per customer, every email address or phone number can redeem it once. But if the code ends up on a coupon site, anyone who enters a new address can use it.

Unique codes solve this: every recipient gets their own code that can be redeemed once. For printed coupon cards at a trade show, an influencer campaign with its own prefix or a welcome series in your newsletter, you quickly need several hundred of them.

Shopify is built for this: one discount can carry many codes that share active dates, value and conditions. The open questions are practical. How do you create the codes? Are they easy to read? And how do they get into your email marketing tool or to the print shop?

How to generate a code campaign in Hand-E AI Discounts

A campaign is one Shopify discount with many codes. You set up the discount once, and the app generates the codes for it.

1. Choose the Bulk codes discount type.
2. Set prefix and number of codes, for example ANNA with 120 codes. Every plan allows up to 1,000 codes per campaign.
3. Set up the discount: percentage or fixed amount, on the entire order or on a selection.
4. Decide on Each customer can redeem only one code and Each code can be redeemed only once. For personal codes and coupon cards, both make sense.
5. Generate the codes and download the CSV file. It contains the codes Shopify actually created, nothing else.
6. Import the file into your email marketing tool or send it to the print shop for the coupon cards.

Limits and pitfalls

• At most 1,000 codes per campaign, on every plan. For 2,400 coupon cards you create three campaigns, each its own discount.
• Without Each code can be redeemed only once, a code can be used several times. For coupon cards you usually don't want that.
• According to Shopify, customers can use at most five product or order discount codes and one shipping discount code per order. Whether your code applies alongside other discounts is set on the Combinations card.
• Avoid special characters in the prefix. Shopify advises against them so that links with a discount code work properly in checkout.
• The codes remain after you uninstall the app. They're regular Shopify discounts that you end in the admin when the promotion is over. That's also why they don't pause if your store outgrows its plan.
• Keep the CSV file to the people who need it. Whoever has the list has every code.