This article assumes you have started creating a new promotion using the "Create promotion" option on the Home page. This opens the "Create promotion" wizard.
The wizard simplifies the task of setting up a new promotion greatly.
Just follow these steps:
Name
The internal name of your promotion. Never displayed to visitors of your store.
Pick something that will help you identify this promotion in the list.
Example: Retargeting offer for Facebook
Type
There are two types of discount promotions you can build with Discount Ninja:
Require discount Ninja: promotions that require you to share a URL
Automatic discount: promotions that are applied without the need for a URL
Features
Enable or disable the following features for each promotion:
Products
Select which products will participate in the promotion. You can select products based on collections, vendors, tags...
Discount code
Select a fixed discount code or allow Discount Ninja to generate unique discount codes for each visitor that clicks "Apply discount".
Theme
Pick your preferred theme. In the next step you'll get a chance to customize the image, text, colors, ...
Summary
This steps shows validation errors if any. If there are no errors go ahead and click the "Create" button.
Test
Click the "Test Discount Ninja" button to test your promotion. If you selected "Require Discount Ninja" you'll notice that the URL in the address bar contains a "token=ABCDE" component. This is what allows Discount Ninja to do its magic.
If necessary, browse to the page(s) of the participating products.
Share
Click the copy button next to the URL to copy it to your clipboard. You can now paste it into an email, Facebook message... to share your promotion with your audience.
Best of luck!