Include the used and claimed Group Discount Codes in your Membership Orders export file

by Travis Lima | Recipes

This recipe was so useful that we merged it into the Group Discount Codes Add On. When the Add On is activated, a “Group Code” column is added to the CSV export showing the Group Code that was used at checkout (if applicable). The regular Discount Code column will show the main/parent discount code.

You can grab the Group Discount Codes Add On that includes this feature here. If you are interested in how this works to possibly do something similar via custom code, we’ve kept the original code recipe here for reference.

About the Code Recipe

The Group Discount Codes Add On for Paid Memberships Pro allows you to see the number of times the ‘parent’ discount code was used on the Memberships > Discount Codes admin page. However, you might want to know which individual ‘child’ group discount codes have been used and by whom.

If you’re new to the Group Discount Codes Add On, it adds features to PMPro to better manage large numbers of unique discount codes with the same pricing. For example, it can be used to create a group of codes to print on promotional material, for use in a campaign with Groupon or for an email campaign.

You can use the following code recipe to add an extra CSV column called group_code to your Orders CSV download file. Inside of this new column, you will be able to see which individual group codes have been used and by which member. To access and download your Orders CSV file, navigate to your WordPress Dashboard > Memberships > Orders > Export to CSV.

We are currently working on better reports for Discount Codes in the core Paid Memberships Pro plugin as well as specialized reports for viewing activity on your Group Discount Codes. This code recipe will help membership sites already using the Group Discount Codes Add On to have better visibility of code uses. is already merged into the Add On, but you can view the code recipe below for reference. Let us know if you have any other ideas for this Add On or discount codes in general.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Run a “Sale” on Your Membership Site and Show the Regular Price with Strikethrough Style

by Kimberly Coleman | Newsletter, Recipes

If you want to offer a discount on membership for a temporary timeframe, but still want to remind customers of the full price, this code example for you. Users will see (and pay) the discounted price, but will be reminded of the regular price so they know they are getting a deal.


How it Works

  1. For this example, we have a membership level that is regularly $97 but we are offering a temporary discount ($50 savings) on membership.
  2. We’ve updated the membership level price to have an initial payment of $47, then used this code recipe (and the pmpro_level_cost_text filter to show the price as pictured above.
  3. When you are finished offering the discount, just update your membership level price and remove the code recipe from your site.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a PMPro Plus Account or higher.

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Need help getting this to work?

The specific example above may not work for the discount you are offering, so just post to our members-only support forum (PMPro Plus or Unlimited members) and we will help you modify the level’s price display to show your unique promotion.

Discount Code Customizations Mega Post

by Jason Coleman | Add Ons, Newsletter, Recipes

Discount codes are a feature included in the core Paid Memberships Pro plugin. This post covers some advanced and some not so advanced adjustments and customizations that are commonly used for our discount code features. For general support on discount codes, see our Discount Codes documentation page

Discount Code SEO

If you have at least one discount code created in PMPro, a discount code field will show up on the checkout form.

Having a discount code field on your checkout page encourages customers who may not already know of a discount code to go search for one. If you can spare a small public discount code, it’s a good idea to have a page on your site called “My Site Discount Code” that should surge to the top of Google searches, bringing those customers back to your site. Five dollars, a 5% discount, or more, might be a small price to pay to attract those deal-loving members.

Hide the Discount Code Field

One way to keep people from DCFOMO (discount code fear of missing out) is to hide the field from your checkout page entirely.

Always Show the Discount Code Field

If you’re requiring discount codes for membership checkout, or just have a large percentage of your members using codes during registration, here’s a quick CSS snippet to always show this field at the top of your Membership Checkout page.

One-time Discount Codes

By default, PMPro discount codes can be used by the same user multiple times.

On the Memberships > Discount Codes admin page, you can set an overall number of “uses” for a code, but this number applies to uses across all customers. If you set a code to have 5 uses, that could be 5 different customers or the same customer 5 times.

  • Here is an article explaining how to set it up so that certain discount codes can only be used once by each member. This code won’t keep someone from creating a new account under a different email address in order to use a discount code twice, but we generally advise against trying to block this or any of the stricter discount code checks. You may catch someone taking advantage of your discounts, but you also risk losing members this way or hassling people who are just signing up a friend or relative with their own address or credit card/etc.

Require a Discount Code

Sometimes you might have a membership level that you want to close off from the public.

Group Discount Codes

If you have a large number of people you’d like to give discount codes to, you have a couple options.

  • The first, supported by the core PMPro plugin, is to create one discount code with a set number of uses and email/etc that same code to everyone.
  • The second option is to create an individual discount code for each user. For the second option, you’ll need to use our Group Discount Codes Add on. With this add on, you generate discount codes as usual to control the price adjustment, but then you can generate a list of random one time use codes to apply that discount. This is useful if you are running a promotion via a site like Groupon.

Anything Else?

If you are using PMPro discount codes in a unique way, let us know in the comment.

Or if there is something you are trying to do with discount codes, ask us in the comments and we’ll try to address it in future blog posts. Thanks!