A Daily Deal allows you to promote discounts on services, classes, memberships, and packages in Vagaro. Once you launch it and it's approved, it appears on vagaro.com, your booking page, and 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.
To explore this feature in more detail using the Desktop Version, follow these steps:
- Click Settings at the top of the screen.
- Select Discounts on the left side of the screen under Things We Sell. Then click Daily Deals to begin creating your items.
Related Article:
- Daily Deals - Do's & Don'ts
- How to Use Analytics from Daily Deals and Preset Discounts to Boost Your Revenue in Vagaro.
Let's get started!
Creating a Daily Deal
1. Click Settings at the top of the screen.
2. Click Daily Deals on the left side of the screen under Things We Sell.
3. 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. A blue color 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 the drop-down under Available to Customers of to make the discount available to customers of specific employees. Then select the employees below.
6. Once you're happy with how you set the promotion, click the red Add button to begin adding services and classes to the deal.
7. Select the services and classes you want to add. Then click the green Add button once you're finished.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Click Group to confirm it.
12. 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.
13. Once you're finished creating the daily deal, click Next.
14. You'll be able to get a preview of how the deal displays. After agreeing 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 once you get to the Daily Deal page. To get to the Daily Deal screen, follow these steps.
- Click Settings at the top of the screen.
- Select Discounts on the left side of the page.
- Click New Discount. Then click Daily Deals.
Once you get to the Daily Deals screen and select Memberships & Packages, select the Category. Then choose the image 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 make the discount only available to new clients.
5. Click the drop-down under Available to Customers of to make the promotion available to customers of specific employees. Then select the employees below.
6. Once you're happy with how you have set your discount, you can start adding memberships and packages to the deal. Click Add.
7. Select the items you want to add to the promotion. Then click Add.
8. Once you've added the memberships and packages, you can begin manually entering the discounts for each item or click Mass Edit to add discounts to multiple items at once. Let's explore this option in more detail.
9. Once you click Mass Edit, select the memberships and packages. Enter the discount you want to add to the items. Then click Apply.
10. Once you add the discounts, you can edit them manually on the right side of the page. To delete a membership or package from a promotion, select it on the left side of the screen, then click Delete.
11. Once you're finished creating the promotion, click Next.
12. You'll be able to get a preview of how the daily deal displays. After agreeing to the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the screen, click Announce to make it available to your customers.
13. Once you Announce the promotion and it's approved by Vagaro, it will appear on the Vagaro home page, your booking page, and custom website. 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. After entering the remaining payment, click Checkout.
Managing Daily Deals
1. Once you create your Daily Deals, you'll be able to manage them on the main Discounts screen. You'll specifically be able to 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.
Toggle any of the 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'll be able to limit your search to items that are daily deals. If you enter the actual Discount Name, you'll be able to 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. Once you're finished adding the search filters, click Search.
3. Once you click Search, you'll see a list of the discounts below based on the filters you added in the previous step. Once you locate 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, locate 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
11 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?
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