How to add coupon printer?

Question

Im building a directory site and for each business listing I wanted to include a printable coupon.

I would want users to be able to click the coupon image (or link) and a printable version of the coupon to show up.

I looked around for solutions but couldn't find anything that could help.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

You might be probably looking for a plugin that offer's groupon-like functionality (“Groupon 1.0 started on a WordPress blog.”).

By googling I learned that there is a plugin called WP Coupon (Wordpress Plugin) (review). No idea if it fits in what you need, but it looks like it does what you're looking for.

But it's probably additionally worth to checkout if groupon and other similar fast growing sites do offer a webservice so that actually the job is already done:

• Groupon API

Answer 2

First figure out how you want your coupons displayed.

For simple printouts you can apply a css style-sheet for a printer friendly version, but I'm assuming you want a better coupon maybe with an actual bar code in it. In that case you want to have a pdf printer friendly coupon, since it the most popular format for printing these types of things.

There are several pdf plugins for WordPress that either turn a post into a pdf/embed a pdf into your page or simpley link to a pdf version of your coupon to download.

Answer 3

I used this plugin in a similar situation. It auto generats a printable version of your content and add a click-to-print link to it.