Any improvement is welcome, but we need Udemy to pay more attention to the other limitations we currently face with non-free coupons. There are two main things I think could be improved, without affecting the workings of the pricing system: 1) I understand that Udemy doesn't want instructors to have their courses discounted to the current best price permanently, so, I think "Current best price" coupons need to be limited in number per month, but I think Udemy could safely leave "Custom price" coupons unlimited. "Custom price" coupons already allow us to have our courses permanently discounted, but since they are limited, we need to use the same coupon code in all channels (our site, YouTube, Facebook pages, etc.), and that prevents us from knowing which channels are performing better and make optimizations to our marketing efforts. Having unlimited (or at least a higher) number of custom price coupons doesn't negatively affect Udemy, because we are already offering the same discount in all those channels, so, the only difference is that we could know what channel the sales are coming from. 2) If I remember correctly, the main reason why Udemy doesn't want coupons to live for more than one month, is that the pricing system regularly analyzes how prices and discounts are performing to make changes, which means that the "current best price" and lowest "custom price" could change from one month to the next. I think, however, that they could create a third coupon type that would be similar to the "custom price" type, but without an expiration date (or at least one that lasted several months). They could design it so that it automatically changes the lower limit monthly, which in consequence would update coupons to the new lowest limit in case the price the instructor set originally is now outside the new limits. Instructors willing to use this coupon type would have to understand that we could not safely mention a specific price in our marketing, if we decide to use this coupon type with the lowest allowed price. I don't know about others, but I would happily use it. This will free us from having to update our links every month. What do others think?
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