Buy 1 from group A, get discount off item from group B?

[CarolA]

My husband the marketing person wants to set up the following incentive:

Buy one item from Group A (stuff we want to get rid of), and you get $10 off any items in Group B (high demand stuff).

I have ShopSite Pro, Version 9.

I've looked and don't see a way.

With Rewards, I could offer a free item from Group B, if they buy from Group A.
With Group Discounts, I could offer a $10 discount if they buy 2 items from a group which combines A & B items. But they would probably just buy 2 of the high demand ones, so that doesn't work.
Offering them a $10 coupon if they actually buy from Group A that they could use on their next order would work okay, but I don't see that functionality in the system (unless someone processing orders creates and sends each coupon manually). It looks like the best I could do is to send out a $10 coupon to all our best customers and they can use it only on Group A products.

Am I missing anything? Can this be done or something close to it?

Thanks!

[Jim]

The only option to give a % off would be using a coupon. As you mentioned you could send out the coupon to your best customers. You could create a coupon link on the page page that has the various items on it so that any shopper could click on the link and get the discount of the items if they purchase the other items.

[CarolA]

Thanks Jim. I'm sorry - I'm having trouble following what you're saying in your last sentence. Can you clarify that or restate it using Group A (stuff we want people to buy at full price), and Group B (the reward - they get $10 off these)?

I understand how you can give them a $10 coupon to be used on Group B items, but are you saying I can somehow control giving them the coupon URL based on whether they buy something from Group A?

thank you.

[Jim]

Maybe I was not thinking straight when I posted that answer. What I meant to say is you can put the links to the coupon right on your store pages, you would not necessarily need to send them to customer.

However, there is no way to have a coupon that requires purchase of certain products and can then only be used on another group of products.

Sorry for the confusion

[CarolA]

Thanks for clarifying Jim. I figured that was the case, but just wanted to double-check. Maybe that would be a possible enhancement to the reward program - the reward could be the item for free, or discounted.