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# Creating promo codes for your listings

Open your **Dashboard**, select **Selling**, then **Promo codes**. Fill in the code and the discount, add any limits, and select **Create code**. You pay for the discount, and buyers type the code in their cart or at checkout.

## Create a code

1. **Selling as**: pick yourself, or a farm or organization you own or co-own. The code only works on that seller's listings.
2. **Eligible listing**: keep **All my listings**, or pick one animal. If you have no listings yet, the code will work on any listing you add later.
3. **Code**: the word buyers type, such as SPRINGKIDS. Use 3 to 32 letters or numbers (dashes and underscores work too). Short codes are easier to share and type.
4. **Discount type**: choose **Percent off** or **Amount off**. Then enter the amount in **Discount (%)**, from 1 to 100, or in **Discount ($)**.

![New promo code form under Selling, Promo codes: selling as Harper Lindgren, all listings, code SPRINGKIDS, 10 percent off](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/74f/ff4/9cd/5c10a.png?width=1760)

Each code must be new for you. You can't reuse a code you made before, even one you turned off. If you see "That code already exists", pick another.

## Add limits (optional)

Under **Restrictions (optional)**:

- **Minimum subtotal**: the buyer's order from you must reach this amount before the code works.
- **Total limit**: how many times all buyers together can use it. Leave it blank for no limit.
- **Customer limit**: how many times one buyer can use it. It starts at 1. Clear it for no limit.
- **Starts** and **Ends**: the dates the code works.
- **First-time customers only**: only people who have never bought on Creatures can use it.

The line under the limits shows an example, such as "10% off. For example, a $500 order would drop to $450." When it looks right, select **Create code**.

![Promo code limits with a $300 minimum, one use per customer, dates from March 1 to April 30, 2027, a preview of a $500 order dropping to $450, and Create code](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/a2f/517/f6c/49312.png?width=1760)

If you signed in from a link in an email or text, Creatures may ask you to confirm it's you with a code first. Here is [why we ask](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/why-creatures-asks-for-a-code-before-showing-your-money-fffgo4/).

Creatures doesn't send the code for you. Share it yourself, for example in a post or a message to a buyer.

## Manage your codes

Your codes are listed under the form. Each one shows:

- a copy button, to copy the code
- **Active** or **Inactive**
- the discount, such as "10% off"
- how often buyers used it: "0 used", or "3 of 10 used" when you set a total limit
- any minimum, end date or first-time rule

![Saved HERD10 code: Active, 10% off, 0 used, $500 minimum, ends Jan 11, 2027, with Deactivate](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/8eb/540/d7e/c89f1.png?width=1760)

To end an offer early, select **Deactivate**, then **Deactivate code**. Buyers can't add it to new checkouts, but a checkout that already has it can still finish. Choose **Keep active** to leave it on. You can't turn a code back on, so make a new one for your next offer.

## How the discount is paid

- You pay for it. It comes off the price before fees and out of your sale money.
- If you also offer a volume discount, that comes off first. The code, and its minimum, use what's left.
- A code only changes your items in a buyer's cart, never another seller's.
- If you sell genetics as yourself, a code for **All my listings** works on them too.

## Other discount tools

- **Transport:** approved transporters make their own codes from the **Promo codes** tab on the [transporter dashboard](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-transporter-dashboard-opportunities-bids-and-jobs-kxf8qt/).
- **Bookings:** bookable experiences have their own codes. See [Taking bookings](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/taking-bookings-schedule-check-in-promos-and-the-calendar-feed-124mml6/).
- **Promoter boost:** this pays people who share your listing. It doesn't change the buyer's price.

### Related information

- [Using a promo code at checkout](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/promo-codes-and-sale-incentives-at-checkout-1458oe1/)
- [Offering a volume discount on multiple animals](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/offering-a-volume-discount-on-multiple-animals-spowh7/)
- [Covering buyer fees and adding promoter rewards](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/covering-buyer-fees-and-adding-promoter-rewards-i6o3xz/)