Random Promo Codes On Website

Hi,

I think I might know what you are referring to. If your web setup is anything similar to ours, it's likely that the price types (which I assume in the quoted text are referred to as 'offers') are by default available on the web and in order to block them from appearing, you need to add an offer and keep the dates consistent with the whole on-sale period. That way, the web API will hide the price types for the duration of the offer(s).

I find this happens fairly often, as the promo price types work on an 'exclusion' basis, rather than 'inclusion' basis, so they need to be specifically 'removed' by adding an offer that hides them (paradoxically!).

Hope this helps,

Mike

Matt,

I expect the the key problem you're having is the one Michal refers to when he says "whole on-sale period".  Price types are _only_ blocked if there is a _current_ Offer on them.  If, like us, you run a generic three week sale over most of your inventory, then at the end of the Offer period, your sale price will (and I find this very unintuitive and unhelpful) suddenly be available to everyone.

I solved this be creating what I call the "Generic Offer Block": a Source that isn't available by promo code.  We create an offer on this source for such shows (where our offer might end while the show is still on sale, or where an offer won't start until some time in the future) with dates to the end of our fiscal year, and this guarantees that the price type will be unavailable to everyone except people who have access to the proper sale offer.

The other thing to watch out for, though, is MOS: if you have multiple Web MOS then you need to make sure that all of them are controlled by Offers.

--Gawain

That is exactly what I was going to add :)

That is exactly what I was going to add :)