A Daily Deal allows you to promote discounts on services, classes, gift certificates, memberships, and packages. Once you launch it and it's approved, it appears on vagaro.com, your booking page, and your custom website. You can also post the deal to your Facebook page.
You, additionally, can:
- Set a start date and time as well as an expiration date for each promotion you create
- Limit promotions to new clients or specific users
- Use the Mass Edit feature to seamlessly add discounts to multiple items at the same time
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Creating a Daily Deal
1. Navigate to Settings > Things We Sell > Daily Deals
2. Click the red New Daily Deal button.
Adding Services and Classes to a Daily Deal
1. To add services and classes to a daily deal, select the Services & Classes button once you get to the Daily Deals page. Blue means it's been selected. Select the Category on the left side of the page. Then select the Photo you want to add to the promotion.
2. Enter the title of the promotion or Daily Deal Name. Enter a Description. Then enter the Fine Print. For example, you can let the client know if there is a limitation to the deal.
3. Select the date and time you want to start the promotion. Select Discount Has an Expiration Date to set a date and time that the deal ends. Select Limit Total Number of Uses. Then enter the number under Total Number of Uses to set the number of times the discount can be used.
4. Select Limit to One Use Per Customer to only allow the customer to use the discount once. Select New Customers Only to only make the discount available to new clients.
5. Click Send as Text to market the promotion through text messages.
5. Click the drop-down under Available to Customers of to make the discount available to customers of specific employees. Then select the employees below.
7. Click the red Add button to begin adding services and classes you want to include in the deal.
8. Select the services and classes you want to add. Then click the green Add button once you're finished.
9. Once you've added the items, you can set the discounts individually for each one or you can click the Mass Edit option to add discounts to multiple services and classes at once. Let's explore this option.
10. Select the services and classes. Enter the Discount you want to add to the selected items. Click the $ to add it as a dollar amount. Click the % to add it as a percentage. Once you're finished, click Apply.
11. Now that we have added the discounts, we can edit them individually on the right side of the page. To group services within a daily deal, select the items on the left side of the screen. Then click Group.
12. Click Group to confirm it.
13. Once you create the group, you can add a discount that's specific to it. In the example below, we grouped Restorative Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, and Bikram Yoga and added a 50 percent discount to that grouping.
Click Ungroup to remove a grouping once you've selected it. Click Delete to remove the selected items from the promotion.
14. Click Next to continue.
15. You'll be able to get a preview of how the deal displays. Click to agree to the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the screen. Click Announce to make it available to your customers. You'll also be able to post it to your Facebook page.
Adding Memberships and Packages to a Daily Deal
1. Select the Memberships & Packages tab at the top of the screen of the current promotion you're creating.
2. Under Select Daily Deal Category & Photo, select a category and then choose an image to add to the promotion.
3. Enter the title of the promotion or Daily Deal Name. Enter a Description. Then enter the Fine Print. For example, you can let the client know if there is a limitation to the deal or if it can't be combined with other promotions.
4. In the next section of the screen, set the following:
- Select the date and time you want to start the promotion.
- Select Daily Deal Has an Expiration Date to set a date and time that the deal ends.
- Select Limit Total Number of Uses. Then enter the number under Total Number of Uses to set the number of times the discount can be used.
- Select Limit to One Use Per Customer to only allow the customer to use the discount once.
- Select New Customers Only to make the discount only available to new clients.
5. Click Send as Text to market the promotion through text messages.
6. Select how the discount will be applied: to a single item in the cart or to all applicable items.
7. Select Add to add memberships and packages to this deal.
8. Select the items you want to add to the promotion. Then click Add.
9. You can manually enter the discounts for each item on the right side or click Mass Edit to add discounts to multiple items at once. Let's look at this option.
10. To use Mass Edit, leave the selections set to All (All Types, All Memberships & Packages). Enter the discount and select $ or %. To set this up as an Initial Discount, enter the number of Billing Cycles to which to apply the discount. Click Apply to finish.
11. You can edit the discounts manually. (Don’t forget to set the discount type to dollars or percent.) To delete a membership or package from a promotion, select items to delete and then click Delete.
12. Click Next once you're finished creating the promotion.
13. You can get a preview of how the daily deal displays to clients. After agreeing to the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the screen, click Announce to make it available to your customers.
14. Once you Announce the promotion and Vagaro approves it, it will appear on the Vagaro home page, your booking page, and your custom website. You'll also be able to post it on your Facebook page.
Adding Gift Certificate Discounts to a Daily Deal
1. To add gift certificate discounts to a Daily Deal, select the Gift Certificates tab once you get to the Daily Deals page. Blue means it's been selected. Select the Category on the left side of the page. Then select the Photo you want to add to the promotion.
2. The default name for the Daily Deal is “Discounted Gift Certificates,” but this field is fully customizable. To change the name of the Daily Deal, simply enter the title of the promotion into the Daily Deal Name field. Enter a Description. Then enter the Fine Print. For example, you can let the client know if there are any limitations (such as “cannot be combined with other discounts,” etc.) to using the discounted gift certificate.
3. Select the date and time you want to start the promotion. This is a required field. The fields beneath date and time are all optional fields.
4. Optional: Select Daily Deal Has an Expiration Date to set a date and time that the deal ends.
5. Optional: Select Limit Total Number of Uses. Then enter the number under Total Number of Uses to set the number of times the discount can be used.
6. Optional: Select Limit to One Use Per Customer to only allow the customer to use the discount once.
7. Optional: Click New Customers Only to make the discount available only to new customers.
8. Optional: Click Send as Text to market the promotion through text messages.
9. Beneath the red Add button, add the discounted gift certificate amounts you want included in the deal. In the Gift Certificate Amount field on the left, enter in the redeemable value of the gift certificate, such as $50. Then, in the right-hand discount field, enter in the discount you’d like to sell the gift certificate for, either as a dollar value or a percentage. For example, you could enter in $10 to sell the $50 gift certificate for $40, or you can enter in 20% to sell the $50 gift certificate for $40.
10. Customize the gift certificate discount to your liking. To add other gift certificate discount amounts, click the red Add button to repeat the pricing and discount process. Then click the green Next button once you're finished.
11. After clicking Next, you’ll see a preview of what customers will see when they browse the Discounted Gift Certificate Daily Deal. In the top right-hand corner, the customer will be able to select the gift certificate amount they’d like to purchase from the drop-down menu of options you’ve entered into the system.
12. If the Discounted Gift Certificate Daily Deal preview meets your expectations, click the box below to agree to the Terms and Conditions. Then, click the green Announce button and your discounted gift certificate Daily Deal will be ready to go live at the date and time you’ve specified. You'll also be able to post it to your Facebook page.
Using a Daily Deal Discount When Checking Out Customers
1. To use a daily deal discount when checking out a customer, click Checkout at the top of the screen. Select the Customer. Then select the service, class, product, membership or package that's been added to one of the daily deals you've created.
Once you select the item, click the Apply a Discount drop-down. Scroll down to where your daily deals are. Then select the promotion you want to add.
2. Click Checkout after processing the remaining payment.
Managing Daily Deals
1. Once you create a Daily Deal, you can manage them from the main Discounts screen. You specifically can see:
- The Date it was announced.
- The title or Discount Name.
- The Discount Type (Daily Deal or Preset Discount).
- The status.
- The employee who created the discount.
- The Period (start and expiration date of the discount).
- The Revenue or the total amount that was earned from the discount.
Select any of the toggle switches in the Active column to activate or deactivate a discount or daily deal. The green color means it is active. To create a duplicate or delete an item, click the three dots that correspond to it on the right side of the page.
2. You can search for specific discounts by entering the Discount Name or Type in the search box labeled Search Discounts at the top of the screen.
For example, if you enter Daily Deal, you're able to limit your search to items that are daily deals. If you enter the actual Discount Name, you can find a specific daily deal.
To the right of the search box, click the All Discounts drop-down to filter the report by discount type. Click Search once you're finished adding the search filters.
3. You'll see a list of the discounts below based on the filters you added in the previous step. Once you find the item you're looking for, click the three dots that correspond to it on the right side of the page. Then click Duplicate to create a duplicate of the daily deal. Click Delete to remove it from the page.
4. To view more specifics about a discount, including its analytics and data, find the daily deal. Then click the Announced option that corresponds to it in the middle of the screen. Click this link for more information about analytics: How to Use Analytics from Daily Deals and Preset Discounts to Boost Your Revenue in Vagaro on the Desktop Version.
Comments
15 comments
This is wonderful!! Thank you!!
Is there any way to NOT send out an email to all of our clients automatically? We have customers who use Vagaro and want the appointment notifications, but have opted out of newsletter and promotional mailings. We won't be able to use this if all customers get a promotional email.
Thanks again,
Lisa
Thank you for this option. I love it. Will you be adding a "pay" option along with the "book" option with the promotions.
This is something that we wanted for a long time. It would be even more effective if customers get an ability to buy the promotion right away. Perhaps you would need to leverage some of the gift certificate functionality here. Groupon and Living social has a very large subscriber base and strong marketing, but we hate to give away 50 - 75% of share.
Sounds fabulous !!!
The only one thing ,i agree with Lisa about automatically sent e-mails
Can we avoid it ?
Or can you send an e-mail to a select group. Also can their be a prepay option just like groupon, where you will pay for the special price only for a limited time?
The iLash Lounge
This is so awesome!!! I also agree is there a way to add a filter for the contact list, not all clients are new and some clients do not want to receive the email listings.
All valid input. We are adding an option to limit the promotion to new customers only in which case we will not send the emails out. We will work on making it payable immediately as well. Stay tuned.
Thank you Fred!
You probably already noticed. We have added an option to to specify new customers only and you can now limit to promotion to certain service providers.
Is there a way to not automatically send an email at all? Here is our problem. We use an email client and have for many years. Our clients opt in to receive newsletters and promotions through our website or our intake form when they first come into our office. If they click "no, I would not like to receive email from 12th Avenue", then we cannot send any to them. Some of our new clients and old clients have opted out of receiving email. I would like to be able to easily run a promotion on Vagaro, then use our email client (with our own branded newsletters and templates) to send an email saying we are having a promotion. Is that possible?
Thanks!
I know this thread is a year past, but I do have a question that was mentioned but not answered. Is there a way clients can purchase the promotion as a certificate to use at a later date? Say I run a special for 3 or 4 days, I would want as many clients to take advantage of that special by purchasing and being able to book for a later date. When will this be an option?
Are we able to use custom images in place of stock images when setting up Daily Deals?
Hi Tiffanie,
No custom images are able to be used with Daily Deals at this time.
Is there a way of creating a deal for a specific day of the week? Like, Thursdays only for a specific month?
Marisa... What you can do is create a DD for, say, Thurs, August 4th. Configure it how you want and "announce" it. THEN duplicate that DD and change the date to Thursday, August 11... repeat to cover the Thursdays in August. Hope that helps!
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