Tiered Product Discounts- Custom Discounts

Key Features of Tiered Product Custom Discounts

Discount Criteria/Eligibility Rules

These are base rules that determine if a particular discount gets unlocked or not.

You can setup multiples of these rules and either set it as either of the following for the discounts to get qualified:

All rules should satisfy
At least one rule should satisfy

Products to Apply Discount on

This section helps in assigning the particular products or collections that need the discounts to be applied on.

This differentiates it from the Discount Criteria and you can have the qualifying condition separate from where you want to apply the discount on.

Discount Types

Percentage Off: Apply a % off discount on the products selected in the “Apply Discounts on” section once your customer satisfies the discount criteria.
Fixed Amount Off: Apply a fixed price discount based on your base currency (this gets converted if you have more than one currency on your store) on the products selected in the “Apply Discounts on” section once your customer satisfies the discount criteria.
Sell at Discounted Price: Instead of applying discounts, you can sell each of your discountable products at a fixed or discounted price using this option once your customer satisfies the discount criteria.

Sorting Cart Items

By Product Price

Least Expensive: For all products in the cart that fall under “apply discounts on” category, this will apply the discount on the least expensive or cheapest product(s) in the cart once discount criteria is satisfied.
Most Expensive: For all products in the cart that fall under “apply discounts on” category, this will apply the discount on the most expensive product(s) in the cart once discount criteria is satisfied.

By *Line Item Price

Least Expensive: For all products in the cart that fall under “apply discounts on” category, this will apply the discount on the product(s) with the least expensive or cheapest line item price in the cart once discount criteria is satisfied.
Most Expensive: For all products in the cart that fall under “apply discounts on” category, this will apply the discount on the product(s) with the most expensive line item price in the cart once discount criteria is satisfied.

Note: In Shopify, a line item price is the total cost of multiple units of the same product in an order. For example, if a customer buys 3 shirts at $20 each, the line item price is $60 (3 × $20). This differs from the product price, which is the cost of a single unit.

Limiting number of Discountable Products

A limit can be setup on the number of products selected from the “Apply Discount on” section that get discounted per order once discount criteria is satisfied.

Same Products: Set limit on how many products you want to apply the discount on individual SKUs.
Different Products: Set limit on how many different products you want to apply the discount on.
Total Discountable Products: Set an overall limit on all the products in the cart that are part of the “Apply Discount on” section. No bar on same/different products.

Tier Condition (in Tiered Product Discounts under Apply Discounts on)

Every tier has needs to have a condition for the discount to get applied. The discount gets applied accordingly on the products selected under the same tier.

Cart Subtotal: The discount gets applied based on the entire cart subtotal once discount criteria is satisfied.
Cart Quantity: The discount gets applied based on the total number of items in the cart once discount criteria is satisfied.
Current Rule Discountable Items Quantity: The discount gets based on the number of items in the cart that are selected in the same tier once discount criteria is satisfied.
Current Rule Discountable Items Subtotal: The discount gets based on the cart subtotal that are selected in the same tier once discount criteria is satisfied.

Discount Strategy

In case there is more than a single tier, you can select the strategy on how these tiers should work with each other while the discounts get applied.

Allow all tiers to apply discount: The discounts on all the qualified tiers apply individually and together if more than one tier gets satisfied.
Allow the first tier that satisfies to apply discount: The discount defined on the first tier that qualifies gets applied if more than one tier gets satisfied.
Allow the tier that satisfies with the highest discount value to apply discount: The discount on the tier with the highest value gets applied if more than one tier gets satisfied.

Discount Mode

You can choose whether to apply the discounts should apply automatically on the cart once qualified or only when the customer applies the code at checkout.

Automatic: Applies the discounts automatically to the cart once qualified.
Manual Code Discount: Applies the discount once the code (which is the Promotion Name) is added at the checkout (once qualified).

Examples and Use Cases

Buy 3+ Products to get 10% off on 2 products and Buy 4+ products to get 20% off from Collection X
Offer a free gift at different spending levels—$20, $50, $100—with a catch: once a higher tier is reached, lower-tier gifts are off-limits.
From a collection: Buy 1, get the 2nd at 50% off. Buy 2, get the 3rd free. Buy 4, get 2 free. Discounts apply to the least expensive items!
Spend 100€+ to get 10% off the cheapest item. Spend 200€+ and get 10% off the two cheapest items!
Buy 2 products, get 10% off on the least expensive one. Buy 3, get 10% off on 2 least expensive ones

Updated on: 03/11/2024