[Feature]: Use discountCode in PricingPreview

[holtwick]

Tell us about your feature request

Pricing preview should allow to apply discount. There is discountId but no way to get discountCode using clientToken.

What problem are you looking to solve?

Additional discountCode property or API to fetch discountId from discountCode using clientToken.

Additional context

No response

How important is this suggestion to you?

Critical

[vijayasingam-paddle]

Hi @holtwick,
Thank you for sharing this feedback with us.

This is the first time we are hearing about this as most integrators will be able to map their discountID while building the pricing page.

To help us understand this further, can you please share more details on how you are integrating the pricing preview API with your pricing page?

We could then help determine if there is a better way of achieving what you are trying to do while we take this to the product team for assessment.

Thank you.

[holtwick]

Sure. Take this URL for example:

https://pdfify.app/en/buy?coupon=F9AF6FAA

I distribute coupons to my clients and they should be able to apply them. To make it simple, I usually distribute the URL as seen above. But the coupon still should have a self speaking name like SUMMERSALE2024 or the like.

The checkout for Paddle Billing has the ability to hand over this code, but the preview in the page should also show the effect of the coupon to trigger users to buy. In Paddle Classic this was possible.

[vijayasingam-paddle]

Hello 👋 ,
Thank you for sharing the URL.

Unfortunately, we don't have a way of doing this right now. I will raise this to the product team for further analysis.

Meanwhile, I can think of an alternative approach to what you want.

1. Instead of adding the discount code to the URL, maybe you can add a discount ID and share it with your clients.
2. When they load the page, you can pass the ID to the price preview API.
3. The response will include the discount code (data.details.line_items[].discounts[].discount.code) and the percentage (data.details.line_items[].discounts[].discount.amount ). You can then display this information to your clients.

This approach is not ideal, but it could be a middle ground until the feature is implemented.

Please let us know if we can help you with anything else.

Thank you.

[holtwick]

Well, for this and a few other reasons, I'm sticking with Paddle Classic for now. The new API doesn't seem to be ready yet... sorry.