Add Coupon Code to Checkout Process

I know now the coupon code is being applied in the shopping cart which seems to be working fine, but I think adding it to checkout is another place it should be. I looked at a few carts like amazon.com, llbean.com and rei.com and they all have this step somewhere in their checkout steps.

I think having it only in the shopping cart can be limiting because if you add a product to your cart and you're ready to checkout without ever looking at the cart, you wouldn't know where to put your coupon code.

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--- Originally created by Justin on 2011-10-11 22:31:35 (ID 2226)

[aschempp]

Where in the checkout process would you place the coupon code?

--- Originally created by andreas.schempp on 2011-10-12 08:43:27

Well, I think the best way to do it is to put it on the "Payment" page and combined it with a "Quick Review" of what you ordered. Something that looked like this:

h1. Payment Step

Your Total
Sub-Total: $$
Shipping: $$ (this was entered in a step before)
Tax: $$
Total: $$

h2. Enter Coupon
Coupon Field with "apply" button

h2. Payment Information
Payment types listed

--- Originally created by Justin on 2011-10-13 20:20:36

If you got to this step and then entered a coupon, the page would reload the "Your Total" section now listing the coupon info (like it does now in the shopping cart)

Your Total
Sub-Total: $$
Coupon: $$
Shipping: $$ (this was entered in a step before)
Tax: $$
Total: $$

--- Originally created by Justin on 2011-10-13 20:22:48

[aschempp]

Uhm, the review is not in the payment step? I can't see a reason to add another overview? The only possibility would to add it to the review step? Or how do other stores handle that?

--- Originally created by andreas.schempp on 2012-03-10 14:35:06

Hi Andy, review step would probably be fine.

Amazon looks to put it on a page where you select the card you would like to use. This is a step before the final review page and then they have it again on the final review page.

rei.com puts it on the first step with Shipping Address and a few other things. They really only have 2 steps where it goes from this first step where you put in as much info as you can to a second step where there's an order review and payment options. There's most likely a final order review but I didn't get that far.

--- Originally created by Justin on 2012-04-30 15:14:55

[CodeAlDente]

I would like to see the option as well.