Coupon API's

[eclipsenetworkz]

Hi,

I'm looking to add a coupon api to my shopping comparison site, shoppingbounce.com. Does anyone have any experience with these?

Thanks

 

[Houdas]

If you just need to make system for coupons/vouchers, which would enable the visitors to get a discount on something, its quite easy - just generate a bunch of codes into a database along with some info about them (how big discount they offer, if they are time-limited etc.) and then make a special input field into the order form for the coupon code. If the entered coupon code is found in the database, delete it from the database and process the order with the discount. Otherwise, output some warning about wrong discount code and redirect the user back to the order form...

 

[eclipsenetworkz]

I'm actually hoping that there is a website like shopping.com, or pricegrabber, etc. that has a coupon api that they allow people to put on their websites. Kind of like a shopping api.

Does anyone know of this? How do sites like couponmountain get their results?