There are many Coupon Clone scripts that provide you with coupon management solutions. You can choose from using different content management platforms such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or with PHP build sites. I believe the top 4 coupon management website templates you should focus on are:
- Clipper Theme by AppThemes (Wordpress)
- CouponPress Theme by PremiumPress (Wordpress)
- WPCoupon (WordPress)
These are very good coupon templates which makes it harder to pick which one to use. I’ve listed below features that I would look for when picking a Coupon Clone script and indicated if the Coupon Template has this feature available. Please see below:
Coupon Template Comparison Chart:
Features | Clipper | CouponPress | WPCoupon |
1. Admin Coupon Maintenance | |||
Ease of Maintenance. | |||
Deleting/adding coupons. | |||
Ability to set coupon expiration date. | |||
Easily add links for a printable coupon. | |||
Bulk add coupons via import file | |||
Ability to add unlimited store pages, coupons, printable coupons | |||
Ability to have unlimited Categories/taxonomies | |||
2. User Community | |||
Allow users to submit coupons | |||
Ability for users to manage their own coupons | |||
Users manage own user profile | |||
Ability to manage expiry dates, coupon codes, and printable coupon links | |||
Option to charge to submit coupons | |||
3. Reporting. | |||
Ability to see which coupons are high performers. | |||
How many times the coupon was viewed. | |||
4. User Experience and Easy Navigation | |||
Allow users to rate the coupon success rate | |||
“Click here to copy” and visit – javascript | |||
Sign up for newsletter | |||
Share on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg | |||
Easy to find and search for coupons | |||
Easily find stores and all their coupons | |||
5. Support | |||
Free theme updates for life | |||
Free support for life | |||
Unlimited installations | |||
6. Template Appearance | |||
Clean template | |||
Template that I would use | |||
7. Template Cost | $99 | $79 | $200 |
Name | Clipper | CouponPress | WPCoupon |
Above is the coupon code template features breakdown. Which coupon code script you choose depends on the level of functionality you want for your coupon code website. If you are looking just to deposit coupons in your website without the hassle of having users sign in, then probably CouponPlazza would be your best choice. Although you might suffer from a cluttered template and many other features are missing as can be seen above.
If you are looking to create a clean template, with ease of maintenance and has most features that you need for a coupon code website, I would definitely make a choice between the Clipper Theme or CouponPress. Personally I like the look of the Clipper Theme, it just looks so modern, clean and crisp.
- Clipper Wordpress Theme – Click here to demo / download now.
- CouponPress Wordpress Theme – Click here to demo / download now.
- WPCoupon Wordpress Theme – Click here to demo / download now.
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Hope this post helps you and let me know how it goes!
Thanks,
Elaine
Elaine@cmsmind.com
Thank you for your blog. I’ve been popping in here and there and your blog has been the most helpful.
I’m currently in the process of creating a Yelp/Groupon type site. I’m no developer, but I plan on contracting people to help me on the back end and your blog has been giving me a lot of advice on what I should look for.
Keep up the great work!
Hi Mehgan,
Thanks so much for your nice comments. I’m glad my blog can help you. 🙂
Thanks for your visit,
Elaine