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If you are an online retailer and are confused about whether to offer voucher codes for your products as a means of increasing your business, then be sure to keep in mind the above given disadvantages of voucher codes for an online retailer and only then take your decision!!
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THE DISADVANTAGES OF VOUCHER CODES FOR AN ONLINE RETAILER They Increase Your Expenditures Everytime a discount voucher is redeemed, it’s like you are actually paying a customer retention or customer acquisition cost. This in turn will increase your expenditures as you also need to pay money for advertising your code. And obviously, the code has to be advertised nicely so that it gets a high response. So what this means is that first you have to pay a sort of acquisition or retention cost in the form of the discount that you offer, and secondly you need to pay a good amount of money to advertise your discount code or voucher. Thus, the voucher codes not only increase your expenditures but it may also make the whole deal unprofitable. Image Source: cdn.shopify.com Rise In Checkout Abandonment The use of voucher codes or to be precise the use of voucher code entry box on your online store’s checkout page significantly increases the checkout abandonment rate by the customers. For example, if there is a box titled “Enter Voucher Code” on your checkout page, then the majority of customers will most certainly abandon their shopping cart and go off your store to sites like voucherfox.co.uk in order to search for an apt code to enter and thereby avail discounts. And while they search for an apt code, there are also chances that some of them may get attracted to another similar store of your kind to avail better and cheaper products that they couldn’t find on your store. Some of the customers may also completely abandon their shopping activity if they don’t get the discount code they are looking for. All this comes under “Checkout Abandonment” and results in your loss.
They Reduce Your Profit Margin The main disadvantage that voucher codes can pose for you and your business if you are an online retailer is that while it may boost up your sales, it can also reduce your overall profit margin on the product or products. This is because offering a voucher code to the customer is like paying a retention or acquisition cost in the form of a discount. And hence this will surely bring down your profit margin if the amount of discount you offer cannot pull up the sales of that product as expected. So, if you are an online retailer and are confused about whether to offer voucher codes for your products as a means of increasing your business, then be sure to keep in mind the above given disadvantages of voucher codes for an online retailer and only then take your decision!!