Discount Code Generator

Generate unique discount codes to be imported to the commercetools platform. See usage below

Usage

npm install @commercetools/discount-code-generator --global

CLI

Usage: discount-code-gen [options]

Options:
  --help, -h                 Show help text.                                                     [boolean]
  --version, -v              Show version number.                                                [boolean]
  --quantity, -q             Quantity of discount codes to generate. (Between 1 and 500000)     [required]
  --code-length, -l          Length of the discount codes to generate.                       [default: 11]
  --code-prefix, -p          Prefix for each code. No prefix will be used if omitted.        [default: ""]
  --input, -i                Path to code options CSV or JSON file.
  --output, -o               Path to store generated output file.                      [default: "stdout"]
  --delimiter, -d            Used CSV delimiter for input and/or output file.               [default: ","]
  --multiValueDelimiter, -m  Used CSV delimiter in multiValue fields for input/output file. [default: ";"]
  --logLevel,                Logging level: error, warn, info or verbose.                [default: "info"]

Info on flags

• The --quantity flag represents the number of codes to be generated. It must be a number between 1 and 500000

• The --code-length flag is used to customise the discount codes according to individual use cases. (more info in Examples)

• The --input flag specifies the path to a CSV or JSON file containing the options the discount codes should have. If this flag is omitted, discount codes without any attributes will be generated.

• The --output flag specifies where to output/save the generated codes. Several notes on this flag:

  • The format of the generated output will depend on the format of the file specified here. It must be CSV or JSON as these are the only supported formats.

  • If the file specified already exists, it will be overwritten.

  • The default location for status report logging is the standard output.

  • If no output path is specified, the generated codes will be logged to the standard output as a result, status reports will be logged to a discountCodeGenerator.log file

• The --delimiter flag specifies the delimiter used in the input file and/or output file if any or both are CSV. Defaults to ',' if omitted and will be ignored if neither input nor output is CSV

• The --multiValueDelimiter flag specifies the delimiter for multiValue cells in CSV. Note that only the cartDiscounts field if present should contain multiple values. Defaults to ';' if omitted

Examples

CSV

If we want to generate 3 discount codes, each having 9 characters(code-length), 'FOO' as prefix, and having the following data stored in a CSV file:

name.en,name.de,description.en,description.de,cartDiscounts,cartPredicate,isActive,maxApplications,maxApplicationsPerCustomer
Sammy,Valerian,greatest promo,super angebot,good;better;best,value more than 20,true,10,2

and also wanting a CSV output, we would run the following command

discount-code-generator -i /path-to-code-data/input.csv -o /path-to-write-data/output.csv -q 3 -l 9 -p FOO

The following would be written to the output file:

"name.en","name.de","description.en","description.de","cartDiscounts","cartPredicate","isActive","maxApplications","maxApplicationsPerCustomer","code"
"Sammy","Valerian","greatest promo","super angebot","good;better;best","value more than 20","true","10","2","FOObcXdOd"
"Sammy","Valerian","greatest promo","super angebot","good;better;best","value more than 20","true","10","2","FOOiNfQyy"
"Sammy","Valerian","greatest promo","super angebot","good;better;best","value more than 20","true","10","2","FOONtF2XL"

JSON

If we want to generate 3 discount codes, each having 9 characters(code-length), 'FOO' as prefix, and having the following data stored in a JSON file:

{
  "name": {
   "en": "Sammy",
   "de": "Valerian"
  },
  "description": {
   "en": "greatest promo",
   "de": "super angebot"
  },
  "cartDiscounts": [
   {
    "typeId": "cart-discount",
    "id": "good"
   },
   {
    "typeId": "cart-discount",
    "id": "better"
   },
   {
    "typeId": "cart-discount",
    "id": "best"
   }
  ],
  "cartPredicate": "value more than 20",
  "isActive": "true",
  "maxApplications": "10",
  "maxApplicationsPerCustomer": "2"
}

and also wanting a JSON output, we would run the following command

discount-code-gen -i /path-to-code-data/input.json -o /path-to-write-data/output.json -q 3 -l 9 -p FOO

The following would be written to the output file:

;[
  {
    name: {
      en: 'Sammy',
      de: 'Valerian',
    },
    description: {
      en: 'greatest promo',
      de: 'super angebot',
    },
    cartDiscounts: [
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'good',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'better',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'best',
      },
    ],
    cartPredicate: 'value more than 20',
    isActive: 'true',
    maxApplications: '10',
    maxApplicationsPerCustomer: '2',
    code: 'FOOnxqrck',
  },
  {
    name: {
      en: 'Sammy',
      de: 'Valerian',
    },
    description: {
      en: 'greatest promo',
      de: 'super angebot',
    },
    cartDiscounts: [
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'good',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'better',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'best',
      },
    ],
    cartPredicate: 'value more than 20',
    isActive: 'true',
    maxApplications: '10',
    maxApplicationsPerCustomer: '2',
    code: 'FOOlFeNRb',
  },
  {
    name: {
      en: 'Sammy',
      de: 'Valerian',
    },
    description: {
      en: 'greatest promo',
      de: 'super angebot',
    },
    cartDiscounts: [
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'good',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'better',
      },
      {
        typeId: 'cart-discount',
        id: 'best',
      },
    ],
    cartPredicate: 'value more than 20',
    isActive: 'true',
    maxApplications: '10',
    maxApplicationsPerCustomer: '2',
    code: 'FOO8LoJD3',
  },
]

Additional Info

• The cartDiscounts field in the csv should contain only the cart-discount IDs

• The JSON output option outputs an array of json objects

• The input and output formats are interchangeable; that means JSON output can be requested with a CSV input and vice versa

• All fields in the input are optional. However, the file must not be empty.

• The input option can be left out completely if no code attributes are required