Group
  • Payments

    Stop coupon and discount abuse

    Adds redemption limits, expiry, and new-customer-only rules to discount codes so they cannot be stacked or farmed.

    • Improve quality
    • Debug & fix
    • Intermediate
    • General

Free Prompt

Audit my discount/coupon code system for abuse and lock it down. Check and fix each of these: 1. Redemption limits: every coupon should have a max redemptions cap (total and per-customer). Add both if missing. A code with no per-customer limit can be reused by the same person forever. 2. Expiry: every coupon should have an expiration date. Kill or expire old launch codes, influencer codes, and one-off apology codes that are still active. 3. New-customer abuse: for first-purchase discounts, check what stops someone from making a fresh account with a new email to reuse the code. At minimum tie the restriction to the payment method fingerprint (my provider supports this) in addition to the account. 4. Stacking: confirm my checkout applies at most one discount code and does not combine codes with automatic discounts in ways I did not intend. 5. Guessable codes: find codes that are short dictionary words (LAUNCH, SAVE20, WELCOME) and decide which to retire, since they get brute-forced and shared on coupon sites. Replace with longer random codes where the code itself is the secret. 6. Validation timing: confirm code validation happens server-side at purchase time, not just in the UI, so a crafted request cannot apply an expired or dead code. Do not break currently valid promotions; flag each change that affects a live code so I can communicate it. Give me a report per code: rules before, rules after, and the abuse case it closes. Include a test that tries to redeem an expired code and a second redemption past the per-customer limit, both rejected server-side.

What This Does / How This Helps

Tightens your discount codes with redemption caps, expiry, stacking rules, and server-side validation. Coupon abuse is quiet revenue loss. A WELCOME20 code with no limits ends up on coupon aggregator sites, serial refunders cycle new emails to stay a 'new customer' forever, and a code you made for one apology in March is still discounting orders in December. The prompt audits every code against the standard abuse patterns, ties new-customer rules to payment fingerprints instead of easily-rotated emails, and moves validation to the server where a crafted request cannot skip it.

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