How to restrict coupons by location – country, state, city and zip code

Smart Coupons provide a powerful, “all-in-one” solution for gift cards, store credits, discount coupons, and vouchers extending the core functionality of WooCommerce coupons.

Smart Coupons also provides advanced coupon restrictions based on location, shipping methods, payment methods and others.

This doc article explains how you can restrict a coupon to country, state, city or zip code.

Restricting coupons based on location can increase sales as you target your promotions only to specific customers of that region.

How to configure location-based coupons

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1. Navigate to the WordPress Admin panel > Marketing > Coupons.
2. Create a coupon or edit an existing coupon.
3. In the “General” tab, select the discount type and add other configurations as required. (No need to make any changes if editing an existing coupon)
4. In the “Usage restriction” tab, under the Smart Coupons Restrictions dropdown field, select “Allowed locations” and then click on the “Add” button. 
5. In the “Allowed locations” field, you can set a country, state, city, and zip code.

6. Select “Match for location in” whether you want to validate the coupon based on the “Billing” address or the “Shipping” address.
7. Publish or update the coupon.

That’s it.

Now, your coupon will only be valid for customers whose addresses match the specified locations.

What if the country, state, city & zip code is not available?

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By default, in the Locations field, you’ll be able to search & select a country. If you don’t find a country, state, city & zip code, just type the exact values & hit the ‘Enter’ button from the keyboard. It will be added to the Locations field and database as well.

You can add single and multiple custom values.

When you add multiple custom values, make sure that those values are separated by a pipe ‘|’. For example: ‘Washington|California|Chicago|New York’.

Once you add these custom values, you can search and select them from the next time onwards.

Note: At first, the coupon will be applied successfully to the cart. It’ll be validated for the location on the checkout page only after the customer enters the values for the country, state, city or zip code.