Discount order amount

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Rule overview

This rule allows you to apply a discount to the order subtotal based on the defined conditions. You can offer discounts as a percentage, fixed amount off, percentage excluding specific products, percentage for only specific products, fixed amount off excluding specific products, or fixed amount off for only specific products using criteria such as cart total, customer tags, shipping address, or product attributes, etc. Using this rule you can create a discount code, or create an automatic discount. If the rule creates a discount code, then customer can use the discount code at the checkout to get the discount. Otherwise, if automatic discount is selected, then the rule can apply a discount automatically to the order subtotal based on the configured conditions. This helps incentivize purchases, reward specific customers, and drive higher conversion rates.

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Sample configuration

The following steps show how to create and configure a Discount Order Amount rule using the app.

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Create a new rule

From your Shopify admin, open the app. In the sidebar, go to the Rules section and click “Create Rule”. Then, You’ll be redirected to the Select checkout rule type screen. Choose category “Discount” → select checkout rule type “Discount Order Amount” → click “Select Rule”. Next, you’ll land on the Create new discount order amount rule screen, where you can configure your rule.

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Rule configuration

To configure the rule, first optionally add a name such as “Discount order amount” to describe what it does if you want to apply an “Automatic discount”. Or, if you prefer to apply the discount using a discount code, click “Discount code” and enter your desired code or generate one randomly by clicking “Generate random code”. Next, on the same screen, select the rule status: Testing, Active, or Deactivated. Here we are going to choose Testing status, so we can quickly test the rule without affecting the checkout for actual customers. Next, on the same screen, configure the Combinations settings to control how this order discount interacts with other discounts. You can choose to allow it to combine with:

• Product discounts – This lets the order discount be used alongside any product level discounts. Make sure product discounts are also configured to combine with order discounts.
• Order discounts – This enables multiple order level discounts to be applied together. Ensure the other order discounts are also set to combine with order discounts.
• Shipping discounts – This allows the order discount to be used together with shipping level discounts. Confirm that shipping discounts are also set to combine with order discounts.

Next, on the same screen, configure the Strategy settings to control how the system handles multiple discount blocks. You can choose First, which applies only the first discount that meets the conditions, ignoring any better discounts that may come later, or Maximum, which evaluates all discount blocks and applies the one with the highest reduction. Next, on the same screen, select the relevant condition and action.

As an example, here we are setting the rule to run Always and configuring it to apply a 10% discount using the Percentage option. The discount message “10% OFF” will be shown to customers at checkout.

In the Action section, you can choose to apply the discount using Percentage or Fixed amount off without needing to select specific products. All other methods Percentage excluding these products, Percentage for only these products, Fixed amount off excluding these products, and Fixed amount off for only these products require you to select products for the discount to work. Next, on the same screen, in the Maximum Discount Uses section, you can optionally enable a usage limit for the discount code, limit it to one use per customer, or apply both if a discount code is selected. Finally, click the Save button at the top to create and save your rule.

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Test the rule

Since, the rule is set to testing status, we have to use test@testing.com as the email, instead of the actual email, to run the rule at checkout. After setting the email, the checkout rule runs and applies the configured 10% discount using the Percentage option. We can verify that the “10% OFF” discount message is visible at the checkout, as shown below.

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Activate the rule

Once testing is done, we can activate the rule, so it can start making changes to the checkout for actual customers. Only activated rules can make changes to the checkout for all customers. Click on Rules in the sidebar to view all rules. Select the rule you want to activate, then click the Activate button to activate it.