If you’ve been selling on Amazon for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that they offer a variety of ways to create discounts and promotional codes for your potential customers to take advantage of.

You may have also heard a few horror stories about people setting them up incorrectly and seeing their inventory gobbled up by hungry consumers (or other sellers, who want to take advantage of your mistake) in just a matter of minutes.

In this guide, we will walk you through each type of promotional code that Amazon offers (including the best ways to take advantage of each different type) and show you step-by-step, how you should set them up.

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As of writing this, there are currently 5 different ways to create a promotion (or discount) inside of your Amazon Seller Central Account.

Percentage Off Promotional Code:

When most Amazon sellers hear the words “promo code” this is generally what comes to mind. Percentage Off promo codes are the bread and butter discount codes that most sellers use.

Using a percentage off code allows you to create a discount between 1% and 99% for any or all of the products inside of your catalog.

Side Note: You may have seen some people talking about giving away “free” products using promotional codes. While this was able to be done in the past using “dollar off” codes, Amazon no longer offers that as an option.

These types of codes also allow you to create a “tiered” discount structure.
For example:

Buy 1 Unit get 10% off
Buy 2 Units get 15% Off
Buy 3 Units get 20% off

This can be extremely useful for helping to drive additional sales of your product, especially if it’s a product that is prone to repeat purchases (like a supplement or food item) or if it’s an item that makes a great gift.

Amazon has 3 different types of “codes” available under the umbrella of the percentage off codes.

One Time Use Codes:

This is probably the option you’ve heard the most about. If you select the “one time use codes” option, when creating a percentage off discount, each code that is generated can only be used for one purchase by the customer.

Keep in mind that if they add more than one of your products to their cart, the discount will apply to each item.

While the code restricts the number of PURCHASES that the code can be used on, it does not limit the number of products that your customer can buy.

If you want to stop people from buying more than one product (I’m not sure why you would, but that’s up to you), you’ll need to edit the “Max Order Quantity” inside of the listing details.

When Should I Use a One-Time Use Promotional Code?

While this used to be the most common type of code to create, it’s becoming less common to use. Generally speaking, the only time you would need to create a one-time use code is if you’re offering a large discount (think 40%+) or if there is another reason you want to limit the total number of purchases someone could make.

Many “product launch services” ask for these types of codes and if you’re considering using one (I would usually suggest avoiding them), you will want to create a set of single use codes for them.

Group Claim Codes:

Group claim codes are essentially the same as one-time use codes, with the only difference being that you’re able to create ONE code and have it be used multiple times.

When Should I Use a Group Promotional Code?

Group promotional codes are great if you’re going to be sharing the code with multiple people.

It allows you to create a single code and have that be used by anyone that wants to utilize it.

For example, if you’re going to email your list to offer them a discount, you would want to use a group promotional code instead of a one-time use code.

With a group code, you could simply copy and paste the code into the email and send it.

If you were to use a one-time use code, you would need to create a unique code for each person on your list and use some advanced features of your email service provider to insert them for each person.

Additionally, group codes allow you to actually choose the promotional code you want to use, which makes it easy to create something your audience can remember to use like “SAVE20NOW”.

In place a group claim code, if you’re going to be sharing the code with your email list or on social media, you may want to use a social media code instead (we talk about them below), as they’re easier to set up without issue and allows you to restrict the number of products each person can buy, as well as, how many times the code is used.

No Code:

Selecting the “no code” option allows you to create a promotional discount that can be redeemed without the use of any kind of code.

When Should I Use a No Code Promotional Code?

If you select the “no code” option, you would be creating a percentage discount that would apply automatically to the products you selected during the promotion creation process.

This is an easy way to create a general “sale” across a variety of products in your catalog.

Alternatively, if you’re only creating this type of promotion for one product in your catalog, you could simply create a “sale price” inside of your listing and avoid the promotion creation process entirely.

Social Media promotional codes are a separate type of percentage off promotional codes that you can create within the Amazon ecosystem.

As the name implies they were originally created for us posting on social media (like to your Facebook or Twitter page), but they have a few features that may interest you.

Unlike percentage off promotional codes, Social Media codes allow you to limit the number of units that the code can be redeemed on.

They also allow you to create a special landing page to drive your followers to and can even be sent to “Amazon approved influencers” to help your code get even more traction.

Unless you have a specific need for the “one off” promotional codes, Social Media codes are what you should be creating.

If you’re planning on using the code for your social pages, email list, or anything else that you can dream up, this type of a code makes the process extremely easy to setup, offers more options, and is harder to setup “incorrectly” (meaning you don’t have to worry about your inventory being cleared out if you accidentally click the wrong button during the setup process.

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Buy One Get One Promotional Codes

Buy One/ Get One promo codes are a special type of codes inside the Amazon platform that allow customers to purchase one item (item x) and get another item (item y) free.

This can be extremely useful for setting your offer apart (especially if you sell high end products), by offering something else for free.

It allows you to give the customer a ton of additional value, without having to discount the main product.

When Should I Use a Buy One Get One Code

If you’re setting up a Buy x Get Y Free promotion (think buy a cell phone and get a free cell phone case), you’re going to want to use this promo code type.

If you aren’t creating an offer like that, feel free to skip this one.

Coupons

Amazon Coupons (not to be confused with promotional codes), are a newer discount method offered by Amazon.

Unlike promotional codes, which only show on your product detail pages (or not at all if you hide them during the setup process), Amazon Coupons are “discoverable” by Amazon users, meaning they have the potential to bring a flood of new traffic to your listing.

There are a variety of ways Amazon helps to “advertise” the coupon including:

showing it on the coupons page (coupons.amazon.com)
showing them within Amazon search results
showing it in the price box of your product detail page,
showing it inside of the customer's shopping cart and a few more

Secondly, unlike with promotional codes, Amazon Coupons work off of a defined budget (just like Amazon PPC), meaning you don’t have to worry about selling all of your inventory at a discount.

For example, if you set a coupon budget of $500, Amazon will stop showing your coupon when $500 worth of discounts have been redeemed on your product.

Third, Coupons can be setup to give a discount of either a fixed $ amount (meaning the customer would save $5 for example) or for a percentage off (e.g. 20% off), Promotional Codes only work on a percentage off basis.

Lastly, Amazon will charge you $0.60 every time an Amazon Coupon is redeemed (in addition to the amount you discounted the product).

For example, if you offer a discount of $10 via a coupon, every time a customer redeems a coupon, Amazon will deduct $10.60 ($10 for the discount and $0.60 for the redemption fee) from your coupon budget.

While they never charge you a fee when someone uses a promotional code, the small fee associated with the coupons can be more than worth it for the additional advertising that coupons can bring to your listing.

When Should I Use an Amazon Coupon

Amazon coupon codes are ideal if you’re trying to take advantage of all the traffic that Amazon already has, Coupons are one of the best ways to bring in additional visitors to your product detail page and they can do a great job of boosting your conversion rate.

They work well when combined with a variety of other strategies (like running Amazon Ads) and can go a long way to help boosting your sales (and organic Amazon rank), without you having to do any promotion yourself.

Deals

The final type of Amazon discount that is currently offered is what’s known as a “Deal”.

Unlike promotional codes or coupons, products need to meet specific criteria set out by Amazon in order to be “selected” for a deal.

This means that you can’t simply “create” deals like you can with the other types of discounts, instead you must wait to see if a product is selected by Amazon.

Additionally, there is a large fee (often $150+) that is paid (in addition to the amount you’re discounting the product for the deal), in order to secure your spot.

Before you throw your hands up at the $150+ price tag, it’s important to remember that because these are much more limited than other promotional types Amazon does put a lot more of their “marketing might” behind them, going as far as featuring them in emails to relevant customers and building dedicated pages for current deals.

Currently, there are two different types of “deals” that can be created inside of Amazon.

Lightning Deals

Lightning Deals are a special type of promotion that you can create inside of the Amazon ecosystem.

Unlike other promotions or discounts these are “time and quantity restricted,” meaning that it’s only available for a few hours (typically 4 but occasionally up to 6) and when the quantity (e.g 100 units) sells out, the deal is gone in a flash (hence the lightning deal name).

When Should I Use a Lightning Deal

People ask all the time about using lightning deals and if it will boost sales. The honest answer (say it with me now) is “it depends.”

If you have an offer for one inside of your deals tab, it’s worth taking a look at and they CAN work like a charm to boost sales.

Keep in mind, that you ONLY want to test a deal if you’ll still be making money and in order to know that, we need to do a bit of math.

For example, Amazon wants us to offer 100 units at a minimum of a $5 discount, which sounds great because we have a $7 margin, which would leave us with $2 in profit on each unit….right?

Wrong.

We also need to take into consideration the deal fee (in most cases $150) and divide that by the number of units, to see the actual cost of the promotion.

$150 deal fee / 100 units = $1.50 per unit.

That would mean, we would only be making $0.50 on each sale (slightly more because Amazon’s fees are adjusted, but let’s keep it simple).

If that’s a margin we are ok with, then we could give the deal the green light, if not….wait for a better opportunity to test it.

Keep in mind, that you pay the full amount of the deal fee, regardless of how many units you sell during the lightning deal, so if you don’t sell the full hundred, you still may lose money, but that’s all part of the “testing” game.

7 Day Deals

As the name implies, these deals last “up-to” 7 days and are treated much the same way as lightning deals, in terms of the marketing love that Amazon gives them.

When Should I Use a 7 Day Deal

Just like with lightning deals, if you have a 7-day deal available inside of your dashboard, it’s worth testing to see what your results may be.

Remember, you need to take into account the deal fee in addition to the discount you’re offering on the product if you want to understand what it will cost you.

How To Setup Promotional Codes Inside Of Amazon Seller Central:

Once you’ve figured out the best type of promotion for your situation (using the information above), it’s time to actually dive in and set them up.

The first step for setting up any of these promotions is to navigate to the advertising menu and to select the promotion you’re trying to setup.

From there, you can use the guides below to follow along and setup your chosen promotion correctly.

Promotional Codes:

If you’re going to set up any of the promotional code types discussed above like:

Percentage Off Codes (Group or Single Use Codes)
Social Media Promo Codes
Buy One Get One Codes

The first thing you’ll need to do is select the “promotions” option from the advertising menu.

From there, you’ll be taken to the promotion selection screen.

From here, you’re going to need to create a “product selection”. A product selection is a product (or group of products) that you want to apply the promotion towards.

To create your product selection, click on the “manage product selection” tab in the top of the promotion selection screen.

Then, you’ll need to select the type of product selection you want to create.

Current options include:

SKU List
ASIN List
Browse Node ID List
Brand Name List
Advanced Product Selection

We could spend a few minutes talking about the pros and cons of each type, but for the vast majority of cases (99.99%), you’re going to use a SKU or ASIN list.

My suggestion would be to use an ASIN list, as it’s the most easily used across promotion types and saves you time setting things up the next time around.

Once you’ve selected the ASIN list option from the dropdown menu and click the “Create” button.

Here, you’ll need to enter 3 pieces of information:

The Product Selection Name: This is how you will see the list referenced inside of your promotion creation screens.
The Internal Tracking ID: This is a description of the list (e.g. a list of all garlic presses we sell). If the list contains multiple products, be descriptive here. If not, it’s ok to use the product name as both the selection name and tracking ID.
The ASINS you want to be a part of the group: You can add up to 4,000 ASINS to each product group and they can be separated by spaces, line breaks, commas or semi colons (I would suggest line breaks to keep it clean).

Side note: if you’re not sure where to get your product’s ASIN, click on the inventory tab and look for the “product name” column. Directly underneath the name of each product, you will see a mix of numbers and letters. That’s the ASIN. Simply copy and paste each ASIN into your ASIN list.

When you’ve filled in all 3 fields, press the “create” button at the bottom of the screen and your list will be created.

Remember, once you have created a product selection, you can reuse it across any future promotions you create, so make sure to name it with something that makes it easy to find in the future.

When your list is successfully created, you will be taken back to “Manage Product Selection Screen” and you’ll see a green confirmation message at the top.

Once you’ve confirmed that your list was created, you’ll need to click on the “Create a Promotion” Tab and select the type of promotion you want to create

Percentage Off Promotional Code:

To setup a “percentage off” promotional code (the most common type of code used for launching a new product), you’ll want to select the “Percentage Off” Option and click the “create” button

Once you’re inside the Percentage Off Promotion creations screen, you’ll see a whole bunch of open fields and blank spaces to fill in, but fear not….it’s easier and less overwhelming than it looks

Step 1: Setting the Conditions for Your Promotion

The first thing we need to do is to set the conditions for our promotion. This tells Amazon what products we want the promotional code to work with, as well as, what things the customer needs to do for the promotion to apply.

In order to complete this section, we will need to fill out 4 options:

Buyer Purchases:

This field is what Amazon uses to “start” understanding of the promotion you’re creating might apply to a purchase that a customer is making.

What they’re looking for here is for you to tell them what that “trigger” should be and they offer 3 different options:

At Least This Quantity of Items: this is the default and most common option. If you leave this selected, it would mean your discount would be triggered by any one purchasing AT LEAST the number of items you see in the box to the right (set to 1 by default). E.g. if a customer purchases AT LEAST 1 item, the discount may apply.
At Least This Amount in $: Similar to the “quantity of items” option, selecting the “Amount in $” option allows you to specify a minimum spend a customer needs to meet in order to qualify for the discount. E.g. A Customer must spend AT LEAST $30 to qualify for the discount.
For Every Quantity Of Items: This is the least used option. If you select this option, it means you want to offer a discount any time someone buys a certain quantity of items. E.g. If you select this option and use 4 as your number of items, the discount would apply on every quantity of 4 items that the customer buys (4,8,12, etc).

Generally speaking you’re going to want to leave this option alone (keep it set on “At Least This Quantity) and make sure the quantity is set to one.

Using those options, the discount would apply to each person who buys “AT LEAST” one of your items.

Purchased Items:

If your buyer meets the criteria you laid out in the “buyer purchases” section (in our example…they buy at least 1 item from our store), Amazon needs to know what products they should check for in the customer’s cart.

This is where the product selection we created (instructions above) comes in.

Simply Click the drop down menu in the “Purchased Items” row and select the product selection that you want Amazon to check for in The Customer’s cart.

E.g. If we created a product selection featuring our world famous garlic press, I’m going to select the Garlic Press product selection from my drop down.

Buyer Gets:

This section will tell Amazon what we want them to do, if the customer has purchased the product we want to offer the discount on (in our example, they’ve purchased AT LEAST 1 World Famous Garlic Press).

By default, Amazon will show “percentage off” in the left-hand side here. We simply need to fill in the percentage we want to offer as a discount (between 1-99%) in the box to the right.

Applies To:

This field is asking how we want to apply the discount.

By default, Amazon will apply the discount to items that are being purchased (in our case, the customer would get 25% off the world famous garlic press) and it will show a value of “Purchased Items”.

While this is normally the setting you want, you can actually have Amazon apply the discount to a different item, by clicking on the drop down and selecting “ Additional Item” and adding the ASIN that you want the discount to apply to.

For example, if we were selling kitchen knives along with our garlic press, we could offer 25% off kitchen knives with any garlic press purchase, by changing this field to “additional item”.

For most uses however, we want the discount to apply to the same item (meaning people would save money on the thing they were already planning to buy) and can ignore this field.

Step 2: Scheduling Your Promotion

After we’ve told Amazon the “conditions” for when we want the discount to apply, we need to give them the dates and times for when we want to run the promotion.

Side Note: If you’re setting a promo code up for more than a few days or weeks, a better option would be to use the “sales price” feature inside of your listing.

Here we will need to fill out 4 fields.

Start Date:

This field will tell Amazon when you want the promotion to start.

Simply select a date from the calendar, by clicking on the date box and select a time from the drop down.

Keep in mind that by default Amazon Promotions work off of US Pacific Time (Amazon’s Home Time Zone), so you may need to do a little bit of math if you’re in a different time zone.

Additionally, You need to create promotions that are at LEAST 4 hours in the future (so Amazon has time to approve them), meaning you’ll want to create these promotions at least the night before you need them, so they’re ready to go, when you want them to be live.

End Date:

Just like with the start date, you’re going to want to select a time and day for the promotion to end.

Internal Description and Tracking ID:

In each of these fields you will need to enter a name or id for the promotion. This will show up in a few different places across your reports and dashboards, so making it easy to remember and obvious is the way to go.

E.g. if we were offering 25% off our garlic press for Mother’s day, I would type “Mother’s Day 2020 25% Off Garlic Press”

Additionally I typically use the same value for both fields, so there isn’t any confusion later.

Step 3: Setting The Options For Your Promotion

Once we have set the conditions for the promotion and told Amazon the time and dates we want it to be valid, we need to finalize a few options before we make it live.

Amazon gives us 3 types of promotional codes to choose from, One Time Codes, Group Codes, or No Code

One Time Use Codes

When you select this option you will be creating a discount code that can only be used by a single customer (you’ll see how to create lists of these codes in Step 5).

Once you’ve selected this option, there are a few additional fields you’ll want to review.

One Redemption Per Customer:

This box should be checked by default and limits each code to one customer and one transaction. As noted previously, one transaction does NOT mean one unit.

Amazon will apply the percentage off discount to each unit the customer orders in their first transaction.

If it’s not checked and you want to limit the number of times a code can be used, make sure it’s checked by clicking on it.

This can be an important way to protect your inventory, especially if you’re offering a high discount percentage or creating these codes for something like a product launch.

Claim Code:
When you select to use a one time code, this box should be grayed out and unclickable. You won’t be creating codes at this point (Amazon will do that for you), and you’ll get them at the end of Step #5.

Claim Code Combinability:

Amazon gives you two options here, preferential or unrestricted.

This should be set to preferential.

Unless you want people to be able to combine a variety of your promotional codes for additional discounts (there’s almost never a reason), this should ALWAYS be set to preferential, meaning amazon will “prefer” the best deal for the customer (and only allow one code) if the customer is trying to utilize multiple codes.

Customize Messaging:

If you want to adjust any of the wording that customers might see (like what they’ll see when they apply the promo code), you can do that inside of this menu.

One item you may want to look out for is the Detail page display text, by default this should be disabled (meaning the promotional code won’t show on your product listing itself), but this menu is worth opening to double check that the box is unchecked, especially if you’re offering a high percentage off.

Once you’ve set each of these options the way that you want them, scroll to the bottom and click on the “review” button.

Then, continue to step 4.

Group Codes

After you’ve selected the “Group Code” option, you’ll have a variety of other fields you need to fill out and double check.

One Redemption Per Customer:

This box should be checked by default and limits each customer to one transaction.

As noted previously, one transaction does NOT mean one unit. Amazon will apply the percentage off discount to each unit the customer orders in their first transaction.

Claim Code:
When you select to use a group code, you’ll need to fill in the code you’d like to use here. Amazon will suggest a randomized code by default, but if it can be extremely useful if you make the code easy to remember.

E.g. Garlic25 to save 25% on a garlic press.

Your code needs to be 8-12 characters long and can be a mix of letters and numbers.

Claim Code Combinability:

In virtually every case, this should be set to “preferential”. What Amazon is looking for here is if you want the code to have the ability to be used in combination with other codes, which would result in a higher discount (you don’t!)

Make sure it’s set to “preferential”

Customize Messaging:

While the main reason you would open this menu would be to change the wording Amazon displays for the promotion, it contains something you need to double check.

Open the customize messaging menu and double check the “Detail Page Display Text” option.

By default with group codes, this option is checked, meaning your promotion will show on your product listing.

If you’re offering a high discount or simply want to keep your code secret and to be used only by your audience, you’re going to want to uncheck this box.

Once you’ve set each of these options the way that you want them, scroll to the bottom and click on the “review” button.

Then, continue to step 4.

No Codes:

As the name would imply, customers would not need to use a code to take advantage of the discount you’re offering. If the order meets the criteria you set above, it will be automatically discounted.

While this might sound a bit crazy it can be useful. For example, we ran a Black Friday Sale, where any customer that bought any 2 of our products saved 25% off of their order. We didn’t want them to have to find 2 products AND remember to use a coupon code at checkout, so we selected the “No Code” option.

If you select this option, you don’t need to change anything else and you’re ready to submit the promotion for review.

Although, you may still wish to open the “customize messaging” section and remove it from the product detail page, but that’s up to you.

Once You’ve selected the “None” option under the claim code section, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “review” button.

Then continue to step 4.

Step 4: Review Your Promotion

After you’ve pressed the “review” button inside of the promotions creation screen, you’ll be taken to the promotion review screen.

Take the time to double check all of the settings are set the way that you want them, especially things like “product detail display text”, the time and dates for the promotion, and the percentage discount that you’re offering.

When you’ve reviewed everything, press the submit button and your promotion will be submitted.

You should be taken back to the promotion selection screen (where you can see the different types of promotions you want to create) and you’ll see a confirmation message appear at the top of the page.

If you created a promotion that is using one-time codes, follow step 5 below. If you setup a group code or no code promotion, congrats…..you’re finished!

Step 5 OPTIONAL: Get Your Codes (Only For One-Time Use Codes):

If you need to create a set of one-time use codes, there are a few things you need to do (after you’ve completed the steps above) to get them.

After you receive the “promotion created” confirmation message.

Navigate to the “Manage Promotions” section, inside of the promotion selection screen.

Next, click on the promotion you want to create the one time codes for. This will take you into the “view promotions” screen.

Click the manage claim codes button and you’ll be taken to the claim code creation screen.

Here, you need to fill in two fields.

Group Name: Each group of codes you create for a promotion will have a unique name. Enter it here.
Number Of Codes: Enter the number of codes you want created. E.g. if you want 100 unique codes, you’ll enter 100 here.

Once you’ve filled out both fields, click the “create” button and Amazon will create the list of codes.

When the list of codes has been generated (it can take up to 15 minutes, but is often instant), you will see the group appear at the bottom of the screen

Click on the download button to save the file to your computer and you’re done!

Once you have created your product selection (as outlined above), you can create a social media promotional code.

Start by navigating to the promotions creation screen (Click on the advertising menu, then promotions).

Then click “create” under the “Social Media Promo Code” block.

Once you’re inside of the Social Media Promo Code Creation screen, you’ll need to complete 4 simple steps in order to activate your code.

Step 1: Choose Your Conditions

First, you’ll need to set your conditions for the promotion to apply.

With social media promotional codes (unlike with percentage off promotional codes), you only need to fill in two fields and the process is extremely straightforward.

Under the “Purchased Items” section, you’re going to select the product selection (the group of products for the code to apply to) that you created previously, by clicking the drop down menu and selecting it from the list.

Next, you’re going to type the percentage discount you wish to offer into the box in the “buyer gets” section.

For example, if you wanted to offer 15% off you would simply type “15” into the box.

Remember, for Social Media Codes, the discount amount must be between 5-80%. If you want to offer a discount outside of that range, you may want to use a Percentage Off Promotional Code, which allows a range of 1-99%.

After you have filled in the “buyer gets” box, you can move on to setting your schedule.

Step 2: Set Your Schedule

When you have finished setting up the conditions for your promotion, it’s time to set the schedule

In order to do this, we need to fill in 3 fields:

Start Date: This will tell Amazon when to start the promotion. Select a date and time from the dropdown menus.
End Date: This will tell Amazon when to start the promotion. Select a date and time from the dropdown menus.
Internal Description: This is basically a name for the promotion and how you will see it referenced inside of your promotions screen. Keep this simple and easy to remember. E.g. 25% off garlic presses for Christmas.

Side note: Remember, promotional times are set to US Pacific time by default. So make sure to set your start and end day based on using US Pacific Time, if you want them to start and end properly. If you need some help with converting your timezone to US Pacific Time, go here.

Once you have filled in those 3 fields, you can move on to selecting the additional options to customize your social media promotion.

Step 3: Additional Options

Amazon gives a variety of options to help you customize your social media promotion and we will need to customize 3 different options, depending on the result we’re looking for.

Share This Promo With Amazon Influencers and Associates:

For social media promos, you will see this box checked by default. If this box is checked, it means there is a possibility that Amazon will help you promote your code, by sharing it with anyone who has an Amazon associates account or with select influencers.

If you really don’t want the extra potential help you can uncheck the box, but I generally will leave it checked (who would say no to free help!).

Redemptions Per Customer:

With Social Media Promos, Amazon gives you 3 options to choose how often you want people to be able to use the code ( percentage off discounts don’t limit the number of units a customer can buy).

One unit in one checkout – A customer can only get the discount on one unit and may only complete one transaction.
Unlimited units in one checkout – A Customer can purchase any number of units, but is limited to a single transaction (this is the only available option for traditional percentage off discounts).
Unlimited units in unlimited checkouts – a customer can use the discount an unlimited number of times.

To choose which option you want for your promotion, simply click the circle next to the option you desire.

Claim Code:

This section is where you're going to type in the code that you would like people to redeem, Amazon will suggest one by default but if you want to customize it so it's easier to remember you can do that.

Keep in mind, that it needs to be between 8 and 12 characters long and with social media promotions Amazon will automatically include the percentage off as the first two digits.

For example, if you create a 15% off promotional code and change the code to “forgarlic” Amazon will automatically add the number 15 to the front of that. meaning your full claim code would be “15forgarlic”

Once you have filled in the claim code field, you can submit your claim code by pressing the review button at the bottom.

If this button is grayed out, it means something is wrong in the setup and you need to scroll up and look to see what the error is.

Step 4: Review and Submit

After you have submitted your promotion code for review, Amazon will give you a chance to double-check all of the information that you submitted inside of the social media promotions creation screen.

Give this screen a quick read and if everything is set up the way that you want it to be, click the submit button.

After you have submitted from the review screen, you'll be taken back to the main promotion screen and you will see a green notification at the top letting you know that your promotion has been successfully created.

Buy One Get One Promotional Codes:

If you want to create a buy one get one free promotion inside of Amazon, the first thing you should do is treat your product selection, as we outlined above.

Once you've done that, navigate to your promotion creation screen by clicking on Advertising and then on promotions.

Here, you'll want to select the “create” button inside of the “buy one get one” section of the page.

This will take you into the buy one get one promotion creation screen, where we will need to fill in 4 steps.