As an app builder software provider, you need to know how to get e-store coupons properly, and also be able to add and delete them from your clients’ shops. This matters because eCommerce shop owners rely heavily on coupons, especially when they want to boost sales during holidays or clear out old inventory before new stock arrives.
The market for app builder software providers keeps growing. As more devices connect to the Internet and gain smart features, mobile shopping has become mainstream. As a result, eCommerce shop owners are looking for partners who can build their own mobile apps or perform smart integrations between their website and various eCommerce tools and features.
Since new app development and mobile commerce solutions appear constantly, staying competitive means gaining an edge in your niche. The easiest way to do that is by integrating your service with the most common eCommerce shopping platforms.
Why App Development Solutions Need Integration with eCommerce Platforms?
Due to the growth of mobile devices and mobile commerce, most eCommerce shop owners have had to adjust their strategy and shift focus toward a mobile-first selling approach. To connect with their customers and make the most of the technology available, they invest in developing mobile apps.
As a mobile app development solution provider, your job is to create bespoke apps that help your clients grow their profits. Integrating your services with the shopping platforms your clients use gives you a specific range of benefits. First, you gain access to a bigger market share since you’ll be able to serve more customers. Second, you can expand your app's functionality and offer better technology.
Integrating your app development solution with the most common eCommerce platforms also lets you retrieve store data within seconds and sync your clients’ apps with their web stores.
This ensures that all customer data, product info, inventory, and order data is accessible to your clients so they can use it to grow their e-stores further. For you, the eCommerce platforms your customers use are highly important, since they store all the data connected with the stores — including e-store coupons, which are a proven way to boost sales and increase customer satisfaction.
How to Develop the Connection with Multiple Shopping Platforms?
Integrating your software with eCommerce platforms is not an easy task — it's quite a challenging one. Gaining access to databases stored on various platforms takes time, since it's a highly complicated technical process. On top of that, you need to find the right developers for the job and pay them competitive salaries.
All in all, this is a lengthy process that requires constant maintenance of the integrations you build. The solution to these integration challenges is API2Cart, a unified API that lets mobile app building solution providers connect directly to a wide range of shopping platforms at once. This means you won’t need to build a separate connection with each shopping platform. All you need to do is integrate with API2Cart once, and you'll get access to data from Magento, Shopify, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, and other supported platforms. For more detail on how this connectivity works across different shopping carts, see how API2Cart handles store connectivity across different eCommerce platforms.
Integrating through API2Cart takes far less time than building in-house integrations. It also lets you quickly synchronize your clients' apps with their web stores' data on products, inventory, customers, coupons, and more. You can then use that data to offer insightful analytics to your customers, or, for real-time updates, rely on webhooks for real-time store data sync.
API2Cart’s Methods That Allow to Get, Add and Delete e-Stores' Coupons
Every app builder software provider that wants an edge on the market and uses the API2Cart solution should know the API methods available for managing e-store data. Alongside the wide range of API methods we offer for retrieving and managing product, order, and customer data, we also provide methods that let you get, add, and delete e-store coupons with ease.
There are three main methods used to perform these operations:
- cart.coupon.list: the standard method for getting a list of coupons available on a site at a given moment. This method is supported across multiple shopping platforms. An example of its response is shown below:
- cart.coupon.add: this method lets you add a new coupon to your clients' stores.
- cart.coupon.delete: this method lets you delete a coupon from a store once it has expired.
{
"coupons_count":1,
"coupon":[
{
"id":"9",
"code":"asdas",
"name":"not avail",
"description":"",
"actions":[
{
"scope":"matching_items",
"apply_to":"item_price",
"amount":40,
"currency_code":"USD",
"include_tax":"False",
"type":"percent",
"discounted_quantity":0,
"discount_quantity_step":0,
"logic_operator":"AND",
"conditions":[
{
"id":"0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"attribute_set_id",
"operator":"==",
"value":"11",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"1",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"item_price",
"operator":"==",
"value":"1111",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"2",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"combination",
"operator":"==",
"value":"True",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":"OR",
"sub-conditions":[
{
"id":"2_0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"item_total_price",
"operator":"==",
"value":"4545",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"scope":"order",
"apply_to":"shipping",
"amount":40,
"currency_code":"USD",
"include_tax":"False",
"type":"percent",
"discounted_quantity":0,
"discount_quantity_step":0,
"logic_operator":"AND",
"conditions":[
{
"id":"0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"attribute_set_id",
"operator":"==",
"value":"11",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"1",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"item_price",
"operator":"==",
"value":"1111",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"2",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"combination",
"operator":"==",
"value":"True",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":"OR",
"sub-conditions":[
{
"id":"2_0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"item_total_price",
"operator":"==",
"value":"4545",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
}
]
}
]
}
],
"date_start":null,
"date_end":null,
"avail":"False",
"priority":0,
"used_times":0,
"usage_limit":0,
"usage_limit_per_customer":0,
"logic_operator":"AND",
"conditions":[
{
"id":"cuctomer_groups",
"entity":"customer",
"match_items":null,
"key":"group_id",
"operator":"ONE_OF",
"value":"5",
"value_type":"id",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"store_ids",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"all_items",
"key":"store_id",
"operator":"ONE_OF",
"value":"7,8",
"value_type":"id",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"conditions",
"entity":"order",
"match_items":null,
"key":"combination",
"operator":"==",
"value":"True",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":"AND",
"sub-conditions":[
{
"id":"conditions_0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"sub-conditions",
"key":"quantity",
"operator":"==",
"value":"6",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":"AND",
"sub-conditions":[
{
"id":"conditions_0_0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"item_total_price",
"operator":"NOT_ONE_OF",
"value":"555",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"conditions_0_1",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"combination",
"operator":"==",
"value":"False",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":"OR",
"sub-conditions":[
{
"id":"conditions_0_1_0",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"attribute_set_id",
"operator":"==",
"value":"11",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"conditions_0_1_1",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"manufacture_date",
"operator":"==",
"value":"2017-05-11",
"value_type":"scalar",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
},
{
"id":"conditions_0_1_2",
"entity":"product",
"match_items":"any_item",
"key":"category_id",
"operator":"==",
"value":"4",
"value_type":"id",
"logic_operator":null,
"sub-conditions":[
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
],
"usage_history":[
{
"order_id":"27",
"amount":0
}
],
"additional_attributes":[
{
"stop_rules_processing":"False"
}
]
}
]
}
What Other Business Cases API2Cart Helps to Implement App Development Solutions?
API2Cart's strength lies in how seamlessly it lets mobile app development providers connect with all the platforms their customers use. With a single unified connection, you can perform a vast number of operations for all of your clients. In addition to adding, getting, and deleting coupons, you can sync product lists — for example, through a multi-channel product listing tool — retrieve e-store images, sync prices across all channels, and perform a wide range of other operations.
If you want to learn more about API2Cart and discover the benefits of using it, contact us now. You can also test the service and all its API methods free for 14 days. All you need to do is register your free account right now.
