Gateway Coupon Assistant vs Murls Discounts – Flexible Discounts for WooCommerce

Gateway Coupon Assistant enhances your WooCommerce store’s marketing capabilities by allowing you to create coupons that are restricted to specific payment gateways. This feature enables you to run targeted promotions, encouraging customers to use certain payment methods, which can help reduce transaction fees or improve cash flow. The plugin seamlessly integrates with the native WooCommerce coupon system, adding a new “Gateway Restriction” tab to the coupon settings. You can also set up customizable promotional banners that appear on the cart and checkout pages to inform customers about your special gateway-specific offers. Key Features: Restrict Coupons to Payment Gateways: Easily select one or more payment gateways for which a coupon should be valid. Seamless Integration: Adds a dedicated tab directly into the WooCommerce coupon editor for an intuitive user experience. Promotional Banners: Display customizable banners on the cart and checkout pages to advertise your offers. Advanced Banner Control: Control where each banner appears (cart, checkout) and set visibility for different devices (desktop/mobile). Smart Validation: If a customer applies a valid coupon and then switches to an invalid payment gateway, the coupon is automatically removed, and a clear notification is displayed. Highly Customizable: Change banner templates, colors, and messages directly from the settings page. How to Use Creating a gateway-specific coupon is simple: Create or Edit a Coupon: Navigate to WooCommerce > Coupons in your WordPress dashboard. Create a new coupon or edit an existing one. Set the Restriction: In the “Coupon data” section, click on the Gateway Restriction tab. From the “Allowed Payment Gateways” dropdown, select one or more payment gateways where this coupon should be valid. Save or update the coupon. Configure the Promotional Banner (Optional): Go to WooCommerce > Gateway Coupons. In the “Main Banner Content” tab, enter the coupon code you want to feature in the banner. Customize the banner message, template, and colors. In the “Banner Display Locations” tab, choose where you want the banner to appear (cart page, checkout page, etc.) and set device visibility. Save the settings. That’s it! The plugin will now automatically validate the coupon against the customer’s chosen payment method during checkout.

Murls Discounts gives WooCommerce store owners a simple, powerful way to incentivise customers to pay the way you prefer — bank transfer, cash on delivery, or any other gateway — by automatically applying a discount the moment they select it at checkout. No coupon codes. No manual steps. The discount just appears, the customer is happy, and you save on payment fees. 👉 Learn more and see it in action: murls.co/murls-discounts Why shop owners love it Running a WooCommerce store means balancing payment processing fees against customer experience. Credit card and PayPal transactions eat into your margins. Bank transfers and cash payments cost you almost nothing — but customers won’t choose them unless there’s a reason to. Murls Discounts gives them that reason automatically. Set a 2% discount for bank transfer, and customers see it the moment they hit checkout. They switch. You save. Everyone wins. No developer needed. No coupon codes to manage. Set it up in under 2 minutes. What you can do Per-gateway discounts Set a different discount rule for every payment method in your store. 5% off for bank transfer, 3% for cash on delivery, nothing for credit card — entirely your choice. Percentage or fixed amount Choose between a percentage of the cart total (e.g. 10% off) or a flat fixed amount (e.g. $5 off). Works correctly in any currency. Cap how big a discount can get Offering 10% off is great — until someone orders $5,000 worth of stock. Set a maximum discount amount and the percentage stops growing once it hits your ceiling. 10% off with a $50 cap means a $200 order saves $20, and a $2,000 order still only saves $50. Your margin stays protected on large orders. Limit to specific product categories Only want to discount Electronics but not Clothing? Enable category scope, pick your categories, and the discount applies only to those items. Sub-categories are covered automatically — selecting “Electronics” covers “Laptops”, “Phones”, and every child category beneath it. Include or exclude mode Two ways to scope your discount: apply it to selected categories only, or apply it to everything except selected categories. Great for protecting high-margin products. Exclude specific products by SKU Need to keep one particular product out of the deal? Add its SKU to the exclusion list and it is never discounted, even if it sits in an eligible category. Minimum order amount Set a minimum spend before the discount kicks in. You also choose what counts toward that minimum — the customer’s full cart, or only the products that qualify for the discount. Date range scheduling Running a Christmas promotion? Set a start and end date/time on any gateway rule. The discount turns itself on and off automatically. No need to remember to disable it. Promotional messages Show a friendly message in the cart and at checkout telling customers about the available discount. Nudge them toward your preferred payment method before they reach the payment selection screen. 30-day analytics dashboard See at a glance how much you have saved in payment fees over the past 30 days, how many orders used a discount, and which rules are currently active. Live checkout preview The admin panel shows a real-time preview of exactly what your customer will see at checkout as you type — the discount line, the label, the amount — before you save anything. Built for everyone Whether you are a solo shop owner, an e-commerce manager running multiple stores, or a developer setting things up for a client — Murls Discounts is designed to be understood and used without reading documentation. Every field has a plain-English label. Every section has a one-line explanation of what it does. The live preview removes all guesswork. And because all settings are per-gateway and stored independently, you can have as many rules as you have payment methods. Works everywhere WooCommerce does Classic Checkout — full support for the traditional WooCommerce checkout page Block Checkout — full support for the modern Gutenberg block-based checkout Classic Cart — discount fee appears in cart totals Block Cart — discount fee appears in block cart totals Mini Cart — compatible HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) — fully declared compatible All payment gateways — works with any gateway registered in WooCommerce, including Stripe, PayPal, bank transfer, cash on delivery, cheque, and any third-party gateway plugin Full feature list Per-gateway percentage discounts Per-gateway fixed amount discounts Custom fee label at checkout with [percent] and [amount] placeholders Maximum discount cap on percentage rules (optional) Minimum order amount condition (optional) Minimum counted against full cart or eligible products only Category scope — include or exclude specific product categories Automatic ancestor category matching (parent covers all children) SKU-level product exclusions Date range scheduling with start and end date/time Promotional customer messages (cart + checkout) Live checkout preview in the admin as you configure 30-day analytics: total saved, orders with discount, active rules Classic Checkout + Block Checkout support HPOS compatible Translation-ready (.pot file included) Clean uninstall — removes all data on deletion No external services, no phone-home, no subscription required Privacy & Data Murls Discounts does not collect, transmit, or share any data externally. All discount rules and analytics are stored in your own WordPress database. No third-party services are used. The plugin does not make any outbound HTTP requests. Support & Documentation Full documentation, setup guides, and support are available at murls.co/murls-discounts.