Unlocking Exclusive Campaign Potential with One-Time-Use Promo Codes in Catalog

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We’re excited to announce a new capability in Canvas Catalog that brings greater control and flexibility to your promotional campaigns. With this update, Catalog admins can now create true one-time-use promotional codes, enabling secure, targeted, and high-impact outreach without the risk or manual overhead.

Why This Matters

Until now, managing exclusive promotions often meant relying on workarounds or close manual oversight. That created friction and uncertainty, especially for institutions running time-sensitive or externally funded campaigns.

Now, you can launch promotional efforts with confidence. Each one-time-use code is automatically deactivated after a single redemption. This ensures precise access control.

Imagine offering 50 exclusive enrollments to alumni at a reunion event, knowing with certainty that each code can be used only once and only by one person. This update empowers you to do just that.

Whether you’re running:

• Alumni incentives
  
  
• Conference giveaways
  
  
• Grant-backed enrollments
  
  
• Donor or sponsor-funded promotions
  
  

This feature helps you deliver with ease, accuracy, and full campaign integrity.

One-time-use promotion code

How It Works

When creating a new promo code, you’ll now find a Usage dropdown with three options:

• One-Time Use: The code is valid for a single redemption, then automatically expires.
  
  
• One Time Per User: Reusable across users, but each user can only redeem once.
  
  
• Unlimited: No redemption limits, ideal for broad access campaigns.
  
  

Along with this update, we’ve enhanced the Unlimited option to give you greater flexibility. You can now configure:

• Max Use Per User: Set the number of times an individual user can redeem the code.
  
  
• Max Total Use: Set the total number of times the code can be redeemed across all users.
  New promotion code capabilities

These settings allow you to shape open promotions with more nuanced access control. For example, you can limit a code to 5 total uses or allow each participant to redeem it up to 3 times.

If someone enters a one-time-use code that has already been used, they will see a clear and friendly message explaining that the code is no longer valid.

The setup is simple. The enforcement is automatic. The entire experience is seamless.

Built for Impactful Campaigns

This enhancement expands what is possible in Catalog and helps your team run smarter, more focused outreach. With one-time-use promo codes, you can:

• Control access to premium or invitation-only listings
  
  
• Meet requirements tied to sponsorship, grants, or scholarships
  
  
• Track and protect referral-based or influencer-driven promotions
  
  

And it’s all built into Catalog. There is no need for external tools, manual tracking, or complex configurations.

Get Started Today

Here’s how to begin:

1. Log in to your Canvas Catalog admin interface.
   
   
2. Navigate to the Promotions section.
   
   
3. Create a new promotion, choose your preferred Usage type, and configure your redemption settings.
   
   

Your promotion is ready to run with secure, automatic enforcement from the start.

This release is another step in making Canvas Catalog the most flexible and institution-focused enrollment platform available. If you have questions or want to share how you're using this new feature, we would love to hear from you.

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