I had not had the necessity of digging into discount coupons deeply before last week and got a bit of a shock when my client’s planned coupon turned out to be impossible.

Zen Cart’s discount coupons do have a number of editable parameters and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading the fine print before. You cannot have free shipping on a coupon along with a discount amount!  I tried to convince my client that she needed to change her coupon  – well, that wasn’t going to happen.

I looked at ThatSofwareGuy’s Big Spender module. But it couldn’t work in this specific situation. It normally would but we did have something out of the ordinary going on.

Then I got mad and started searching the Zen Cart forum for answers. Lo and behold, the solution magically appeared!  Here’s the thread. In it ajeh (Linda) posts a link to the altered files.

Here’s hoping the changes are incorporated into the next version (1.5) but at least the fix is available now for 1.3.9h! Download the files here.