Running this type of promotion is a great way to drum up excitement for a new brand or category and are generally time limited or usage limited.

Go ahead and enter the Name, Code, Discount Type, and a Value for this discount. In this example we are running a Percentage based discount. Decide if you want to limit the usage amount or the date range. You can limit both, and your promotion will end whenever either one of the limits is hit, whichever comes first.

Make sure that Applies to all products is unchecked.

Click on Add Rule inside the Include section. In the Products matching dropdown select Category or Brand depending on what you want to discount, and in the text box find the category or brand. Keep in mind that you can add several categories and brands into this rule. If you do add multiple categories or brands make sure to set Products must match to Any Rules.

Set the Visibility of this discount to whatever you need. If you set the Start date to be sometime in the future then you can leave this set to inactive as the discount will automatically activate when the Start date is hit.

Go ahead and set the date ranges here. It’s generally ok to have no end date on this type of discount if you have already set a usage limit, however if there is no usage limit then we suggest having an End date.