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Django 2 by Example

You're reading from  Django 2 by Example

Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472487
Pages 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content in Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Going Live 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a coupon system

Many online shops give out coupons to customers that can be redeemed for discounts on their purchases. An online coupon usually consists of a code that is given to users, valid for a specific time frame. The code can be redeemed one or multiple times.

We are going to create a coupon system for our shop. Our coupons will be valid for clients that enter the coupon in a specific time frame. The coupons will not have any limitations in terms of the number of times they can be redeemed, and they will be applied to the total value of the shopping cart. For this functionality, we will need to create a model to store the coupon code, a valid time frame, and the discount to apply.

Create a new application inside the myshop project using the following command:

python manage.py startapp coupons

Edit the settings.py file of myshop and add the application to the INSTALLED_APPS...

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