passing invisible couponCode to URL
Sometimes a couponCode is something you don't want to be visible. Agreed, word-of-mouth distribution of coupon codes in some cases is great viral marketing. In other cases, though, it's undesirable.
For example, when my customer upgrades from a lower-end product to a higher-end product, I send him a full copy of the high-end product, not just an unlock key or patch. There is a separate Plimus contractID for that upgrade, and a coupon code that is issued only after I've confirmed at my end that the user qualifies for the upgrade.
The problem is that the Plimus URL on the browser address bar shows the world the couponCode, as in:
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2298040&couponCode=SOME...
Is there a technique for calling up the Plimus form and passing the couponCode without displaying it on the address bar of the browser?
The answer to this question is likely a web programming technique that I need to learn at my end, not a change that needs to be made on the Plimus side. But I'm not sure about that.
Cheers
-- Mark
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When you POST the parameter
When you POST the parameter it is visiable in the address bar, this can not be avoided, but you can limit the amount usages of coupons, for example if you have 60 different coupon codes that all have a usage of 1, this means if someone else were to pass on the same coupon code it would not work as it's been used already.
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