eoghanobrien | Stripe Developers | Page 1

frozen spruceBOT May 2, 2023, 2:38 AM

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arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 2:40 AM

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hrm, i think the only way to go about this is to create a promo code limited to the specific customer and can only be redeemed once

https://stripe.com/docs/api/promotion_codes/create#create_promotion_code-customer
https://stripe.com/docs/api/promotion_codes/create#create_promotion_code-max_redemptions

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so you would have to loop and create one for each customer

split olive May 2, 2023, 2:51 AM

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Yeah, if you don't have a customer ID you're hosed - if I knew the email addresses, I'd have to create the customer object beforehand via the API or something and then programmatically add slightly separate promo codes per customer?

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The only problem I'm really trying to solve is that I don't want the same customer to use the same promo code twice

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But I don't think the "Eligible for first-time orders only" covers that, that's literally their first order ever, right?

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 2:53 AM

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if I knew the email addresses, I'd have to create the customer object beforehand via the API or something and then programmatically add slightly separate promo codes per customer?

Sounds about right

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yes, that's for their first order ever

split olive May 2, 2023, 2:54 AM

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💩 so no option to limit to max one use per customer?

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 2:55 AM

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only via the way i mentioned afaik

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if you really want to, you can create X number of promo codes, and then email one to each customer

split olive May 2, 2023, 2:58 AM

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It's not quite the same thing though, since that's limit to one customer, rather than no limit but single use

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 2:58 AM

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it wouldn't prevent customer A from emailing customer B their promo code

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but i think the possibility of a leak would be pretty low

split olive May 2, 2023, 2:58 AM

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yeah, that we could handle with expiration date though

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the biggest risk to us is the same customer re-using the same code over and over, which would be easy with the types of products we have

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 3:01 AM

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ah, then you can create one promo code with redemption as max one time for each promo code

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would that work?

split olive May 2, 2023, 3:03 AM

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technically yes, but we just push the burden on our customer support to create those promo codes, these often happen ad-hoc in groups of 25-50 people

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 3:04 AM

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i would suggest writing a script then, we don't really have any batch feature for coupon creation unfortunately

split olive May 2, 2023, 3:08 AM

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There's no webhook sent out when a customer attempts to use a promo code to allow for dynamic verification I assume

arctic sluice May 2, 2023, 3:13 AM

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nope, no webhook sent out

split olive May 2, 2023, 3:16 AM

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okay, thanks for your help

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