VIP early access
Let one customer group, for example your VIPs, shop a sale before everyone else.
How it works
CartWhizz makes a copy of the sale for that group only. The copy starts the number of hours you choose before the sale and ends when the sale starts for everyone. From then on the original sale covers all customers, VIPs included. The copy keeps every condition and discount of the sale and adds "customer is in this group".
Set it up
- Create the sale as usual (Marketing → Discounts → Promotions) as an automatic promotion (no coupon code) with a start date in the future. Save it.
- Make sure your VIP customers are in a customer group (Customers → Customer groups).
- Open the sale again. In VIP early access, choose the group and how many hours early (1 to 168), then click Create VIP early access.
- The copy opens, named "Sale name (VIP early access)". Check it.
Tip: tell your VIPs on WhatsApp with a broadcast to that group's audience.
Limits
- Only for automatic sales. A coupon code must be unique, so it can't be copied.
- The sale needs a future start. Once a sale has started there is nothing to be early for.
- Changing the original sale later does not change the copy. Edit or delete the copy too.
For CartWhizz AI and the API
POST /api/v1/admin/promotions/{id}/early-access with {"usergroup_id": "<group id>", "hours": 24} returns the new promotion. Errors: 400 with a reason (coupon sale, no future start, hours out of range, no group), 404 for an unknown sale.