Loyalty Points & Cashback for OpenCart — points programme with checkout redemption

Loyalty Points & Cashback for OpenCart is a loyalty programme for stores on OpenCart 2.3, 3.x and 4.x. A completed order gives the customer back a share of the goods value in points, and next time those points pay part of the cart — as a separate line in the totals, just like a coupon. Points live in their own ledger: the balance is never a number someone edited, and every point can be traced back to an order.

Why another loyalty module. OpenCart’s built-in reward points credit a fixed number of points per product: no percentage of the order, no expiry, no customer levels, no history page for the customer, and no list of balances for the admin. Here cashback is a percentage, every credit has its own term, and points spent reduce the tax base exactly as a discount does. The same module runs on 2.3, 3.0 and 4.1 — with no core file edits.

How it works, step by step

1. The customer registers and immediately receives the welcome bonus you configured (0 = no bonus).
2. Adds an item to the cart and sees how many points the order will earn and how many can be spent right now. Guests get the forecast and a link to sign in.
3. Spends points. The module checks three limits: the balance, the percentage of the order and the minimum order for spending. A separate “Paid with points (N)” line appears in the totals.
4. Places the order. Points are taken when the order first enters the store’s working status, not the moment the button is pressed — unfinished carts never touch the balance.
5. The order becomes Complete and cashback comes back: a percentage of the goods value without tax and shipping, less discounts and the amount paid with points. Writing the same status again creates no duplicate.
6. The order is cancelled or refunded — points spent come back in full and the cashback is taken away. If the customer has already spent part of that cashback, only what is left is removed: the balance never goes negative.
7. Points expire by the term of each credit separately. Expired points drop out of the balance even before the cron runs — the cron only writes the “Expired” line into the history.

What it costs

890 UAH — one payment, a licence for good. No yearly fees: the module and its Pro features stay yours. One licence covers all three builds — OpenCart 4.x, 3.x and 2.3.

Trial first, payment later. A 7-day free Pro trial starts from the module settings with an e-mail address, no card needed. A fresh install is a clean Free version; nothing switches itself on. When the trial ends the Pro fields lock, but the levels and terms you saved are not wiped: after payment everything comes back as it was.

Under the hood

• A ledger table cc_loyalty_txn: the balance is the sum of its rows, not a field someone “fixed”. Every credit knows its expiry date and what is left of it, and spending is FIFO — the points that expire soonest go first.
• Paying with points is its own order total with sort order 4, like a coupon: tax is calculated after the points, and the order and the receipt show an ordinary discount line.
• Idempotent. A repeated status write, a double callback or a second cancellation duplicate nothing: each operation on an order is recorded once.
• Not enough points at confirmation — the order does not silently swallow the difference: it gets the shop’s fraud status or, if none is set, the first of the statuses on which cashback is taken back.
• Deleting the module does not wipe the ledger: customers’ points are a promise the store made, so the table stays.
• The SMS gateway token is never printed back into the form: the page only shows that one is stored.
• Languages: Ukrainian and English — admin and storefront.

Installation

1. OpenCart 4: Extensions → Installer → upload cc_loyalty.ocmod.zip and click Install. OpenCart 3: Extensions → Installer → cc_loyalty-oc3.ocmod.zip. OpenCart 2.3: the stock 2.3 installer copies files only over FTP, so upload the contents of upload/ from cc_loyalty-oc2.ocmod.zip to the shop root manually, then Refresh in Modifications.
2. Extensions → Extensions → Modules → CatCode Loyalty Points & Cashback → Install, then Edit.
3. Enable the programme, set the cashback percentage, the welcome bonus and the cap on paying with points, and save.
4. Add a cron job for the URL shown in the settings (the key is there too) so expiry and reminders run.
5. For Pro: “Try Pro” → an e-mail for the trial, or your key after purchase.