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 on your Facebook page.
You, additionally, can:
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Set a start date, time, and expiration date for each promotion you create.
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Limit promotions to new clients or specific users.
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Use the Mass Edit feature to add discounts to multiple items at the same time seamlessly.
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A daily deal can be used in conjunction with a promo discount code.
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Creating a Daily Deal or signing up for Email Marketing or Text Marketing will take you out of the Free Trial!
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Announcing a Daily Deal for existing customers uses emails from your Email Marketing plan.
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Email Marketing is free to all Vagaro businesses for up to 1000 messages/month. Sign up for an Email Marketing Plan if you use more than that.
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Navigate to → →
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If your business isn't listed on Vagaro.com, you cannot create Daily Deals. When you click New Daily Deal, you'll see a pop-up warning letting you set up the listing immediately. Otherwise, you can go to → → , scroll down, and toggle List Business on Vagaro.com on (green).
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Click New Daily Deal.
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In the first section:
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Click Services & Classes on the New Daily Deal page to make this deal for services and classes. Blue means it's been selected.
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Select a Daily Deal Category, then a photo to add to the promotion.
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Scroll down to the next section of the create screen.
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Enter the Daily Deal Name.
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Enter at least 100 characters in Daily Deal Description. The maximum is 500 characters.
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Enter up to 500 text characters into Fine Print to describe any limitations on the deal you're creating.
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Scroll down.
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Select the date and time to start the promotion.
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Toggle Daily Deal Has an Expiration Date on (green) if you want to end the deal at a specific date/time.
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Toggle Limit Total Number of Uses on (green) and enter a number for how many times this Daily Deal can be used.
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Toggle Limit to One User Per Person on (green) if you want that limit applied.
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Toggle Send as Text on (green) to send this deal to your text messaging customers.
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Scroll to the next section.
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Discount will be redeemable by: Click Existing Customers, New Customers, or both (selected options will be blue) to limit the types of customers that can use the deal.
New vs. Existing Customers
A "New" customer is not in your Customer List, while an existing customer has a Customer Profile linked to your business. If an existing customer tries to use a Daily Deal for New Customers, the deal will not apply to their booking.
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Discount will be applied to: Click Single Applicable Item or All Applicable Items (the chosen option will be blue.)
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Click the drop-down under Offered by: to make the discount available to customers of specific employees. Then select the employees below.
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Offered by only applies to the Services & Classes type of daily deal. If you select one of the other types, Offered by does not display.
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Continue by following the instructions for one of the three Daily Deal Types:
After you've configured the daily deal settings for the Services & Classes type, continue to add services and classes:
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Click the red Add button to add services and classes to the deal. Use the checkboxes to select from the list, and click Add when you're done.
You can group items when selecting from the list or leave them separate and group them later if you find the need.
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Once you've added the services and classes, you can set discounts individually, group them, or use Mass Edit to add discounts to multiple services and classes at once.
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Mass Edit:
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Click Mass Edit.
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Select Categories and All or individual Services/Classes, and set a percent or amount discount, then click Apply.
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Group:
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Check entries from the list to be grouped and then click Group.
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Click Group to confirm.
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Set a percentage or amount of discount for the group.
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To ungroup, select the group and click Ungroup. Confirm by clicking Ungroup on the pop-up screen.
The individual items from the group retain the discount you set for the group.
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To delete groups or individual entries: select them (checkboxes), click Delete, and confirm on the pop-up message by clicking Delete again.
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Select the Memberships & Packages tab at the top of the screen of the current promotion you're creating.
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Configure your Daily Deal following the steps under Adding Services and Classes to a Daily Deal until you are ready to add items.
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Select Add to add memberships and packages to this deal.
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Check entries on the list of memberships and packages. Then click Add.
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You can manually enter the discounts for each item or click Mass Edit to add discounts to multiple items at once.
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Leave the selections set to All Types and All Memberships/Packages.
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Enter the discount and select $ or %.
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To set this up as an Initial Discount, enter the number of Discounted Billing Cycles to apply the discount.
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Click Apply to finish.
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To edit the discounts manually, enter a number of Billing Cycles, then enter the Discount as a number and select the amount ($) or percentage (%) type to apply.
The price will reflect the discount.
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To delete a membership from the deal, check each box, click Delete and confirm on the pop-up screen.
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Click Next to finish creating the promotion.
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Select Gift Certificates for the Daily Deal you're creating.
The system jumps you to the Add Gift Certificate section, but you can scroll back up to the top to further define this deal.
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Configure your Daily Deal following the steps under Adding Services and Classes to a Daily Deal until you are ready to add items.
The default name for the Daily Deal is "Discounted Gift Certificates." To change the name of the Daily Deal, enter the new title in the Daily Deal Name field.
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Configure and add gift certificates by Amount. Fill in the value of the GC, and add a discount (percentage or amount).
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To add more gift certificates to the deal, click Add, and fill in the value and discount on the line for the new entry.
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To delete an entry, check the box for the one to delete (or for multiple gift certificates) and click Delete.
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Click Next to finish creating the promotion.
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Once you're finished adding all discount types to your new Daily Deal, click Next to go to the Preview screen to see how the Daily Deal displays to customers.
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Scroll to the end of the page and click I comply with all Daily Deal guidelines.
Click the link to review the Daily Deal guidelines before agreeing to them.
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Click Announce to make it available to your customers.
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The announcement confirmation also allows sharing the Daily Deal on your Facebook page.
To use a daily deal discount when checking out a customer, click Checkout. 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.
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Click Apply a Discount or Fee.
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Check the Daily Deal name.
About checking out "new" customers
If the Daily Deal is limited to New Customers, you'll see a warning when you try to apply it to an existing customer, but you can apply it anyway. This lets the deal be applied, at your discretion, to a customer who has set up an account but may not have made their first appointment or purchase from your business. You can always remove the discount before finishing the checkout.
An existing customer cannot apply a daily deal configured for new customers in the online shopping cart.
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The Discount field will display the discount, the Due field updates, and the Use Pts column will show a discount tag.
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Enter payment information and click Checkout to finish.
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Once you create a Daily Deal, you can manage them from the same Daily Deals page. The listing page shows the following:
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The Date it was announced.
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The Daily Deal Name.
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The status.
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The employee who created the discount.
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The Period (start and expiration date of the discount).
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The Revenue or the total amount that was earned from the discount
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Use the toggle switches in the Active column to make a Daily Deal Active (green) or Inactive.
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From the More menu (3 vertical dots,) you can View, Duplicate , or Archive an active or inactive deal.
If you are viewing Archived daily deals, this menu will have only an Unarchive option.
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Use the Search Daily Deals box to enter the name of a Daily Deal and search for it.
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The drop-down menu offers to limit your search to Announced or Archived daily deals.
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Click the status column links to view analytical data for the daily deal. See Using Daily Deal and Preset Discount Analytics to Boost Revenue for more information.
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From the More menu, if you choose View, you can see the details for the selected daily deal. You can make changes but not save the selected deal; you can only Duplicate it to save changes.
Choose Duplicate from the More menu to copy all the settings from the selected deal to a new version.
Choose Archive to save this deal, but not show it in the list of current deals.
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Click the download icon (
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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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