Bulk Coupon Creator for BigCommerce

What it does

Bulk Coupon Creator adds coupon codes to a promotion you’ve already set up in BigCommerce — hundreds or hundreds of thousands at a time. Instead of creating codes one by one in BigCommerce, you pick the promotion the codes belong to and either let the tool make codes for you or upload your own list.

You have two ways to create codes:

• Create via Wizard — the tool makes unique codes for you. You choose how they should look: how long, letters and/or numbers, and an optional prefix like SUMMER-. You can create up to 500,000 codes in one run, and a live example shows what your codes will look like before you start.
• Import from File — upload a file (or point to a file on the web) with codes you already have, and tell the tool which column is which.

The discount itself (what’s on sale, the conditions, the dates) comes from the promotion you selected — the tool just supplies the codes. The work runs in the background and you’re emailed when it’s done.

The tool also helps you manage the promotions themselves. From the tool’s menu you can:

• View Promotions — browse the coupon promotions in your store, search and filter them, and enable or disable several at once.
• Export Promotions — download a spreadsheet of your coupon promotions.
• Import Promotions — bulk-update existing promotions from a spreadsheet — perfect for disabling a batch of old promotions in one go.

When to use it

• You’re running a campaign that needs thousands of single-use codes — one per customer, influencer, or insert card.
• You already have a list of codes and need them loaded onto a BigCommerce promotion quickly.
• You want codes that follow a pattern, like SUMMER-XXXX.
• Creating codes one at a time in BigCommerce would take far too long.

Before you start

• Create your promotion in BigCommerce first, set up to use coupon codes. This tool adds codes to it; it doesn’t create the promotion or its discount rules. Only promotions that use coupon codes appear in the list.
• Decide whether you’re creating codes or importing your own.
• If you’re importing, make sure the first row of your file contains column headings.
• If your store has more than one storefront, you’ll pick the storefront first so the right promotions show up.
• This is a paid add-on. If your subscription isn’t active, the button reads “Subscribe To Bulk Coupon Creator” — subscribe first, then come back.

Step-by-step

Settings reference

Create via Wizard

Setting	Required?	What it means
Coupon Length	Yes	How long the random part of each code should be (3 to 20 characters).
Number of Coupons to Generate	Yes	How many codes to create — up to 500,000 per run.
Coupon Prefix	No	Text added to the start of every code, like SUMMER- (up to 20 characters).
Coupon Suffix	No	Text added to the end of every code (up to 20 characters).
Coupon Character Set	Yes	What the random part is made of: capital letters, lowercase letters, and/or numbers.
Coupon Delimiter	No	The character between groups — usually a dash, as in ABCD-EFGH.
Coupon Split Length	No	Breaks the code into groups of this many characters (1–5), separated by the delimiter.
Max Uses Per Code	Yes	How many times each code can be used in total. Usually 1. Maximum 10,000.
Max Uses Per Customer	Yes	How many times one customer can use a code. Usually 1. Maximum 10,000.
Example of Generated Coupon	—	A live preview of what your codes will look like.

Import from File

Your file’s first row must be column headings. After you add the file, match your columns to these fields:

Field	Required?	What it means
Coupon Code	Yes	The code itself. Letters, numbers, spaces, _, and - are allowed.
Max Uses Per Code	No	How many times the code can be used in total. Must be a number.
Max Uses Per Customer	No	How many times one customer can use the code. Must be a number.

Managing promotions

Beyond creating codes, the tool’s menu (the ⋯ button on the tool card) gives you three ways to manage the coupon promotions themselves.

Enable or disable promotions in bulk

Open View Promotions to see every coupon promotion in your store. You can search by name, and filter by status or channel. Tick the checkboxes next to the promotions you want to change — selecting all works across pages — then choose Enable Selected or Disable Selected. After you confirm, the changes are applied straight to BigCommerce and a message tells you how many promotions were updated.

Export Promotions

Export Promotions downloads a spreadsheet of your coupon promotions. You choose the filename, the file type (Excel or CSV), and can narrow the export to a single status (enabled/disabled) or channel. The export runs in the background — you’ll get a notification with a download link, plus an email with the link (email delivery is on by default; you can turn it off or change the address).

Each row includes the promotion’s id, name, status, current and maximum uses, start and end dates, and a few other details. The column names match the import fields exactly, so an exported file is ready to edit and re-import.

Import Promotions (update only)

Import Promotions bulk-updates promotions you already have — it never creates new promotions, and it never touches a promotion’s discount rules. The typical workflow:

Only the cells you fill in are changed — a blank cell leaves that value as it is on the promotion. Columns you don’t map are ignored.

Column	Required?	What it means
Promotion ID	Yes	Which promotion to update — it’s the id column of the export.
Name	No	Rename the promotion.
Status	No	ENABLED or DISABLED.
Max Uses	No	How many times the promotion can be used in total. 0 means unlimited.
Start Date	No	When the promotion starts, e.g. 2026-07-21 00:00:00.
End Date	No	When the promotion ends.
Stop Other Promotions	No	true or false.
Can Be Used With Other Promotions	No	true or false.

Troubleshooting / FAQ