Automatic discounts

What they can do

For a plain "10% off everything" you don't need DiscountFix: Shopify's own automatic discount does that.

Create one

1. Open Automatic Discounts. With no discounts yet, pick one of the idea cards (Happy hour, Loyalty tiers, Spend more save more, Buy 3 cheapest free, Shipping discount, First order): the form opens filled in with an example you can change. Or click Create automatic discount to start from scratch.
2. Give it a title. Shoppers see the title at checkout, next to the discount, so make it friendly (for example Friday happy hour). Each title must be unique: DiscountFix uses it to match orders to the discount.
3. Pick the type and the value, then any of the rules below.
4. Click Save. The discount is live right away, or from the start date you set.

You can also ask Shopify Sidekick, for example Create a DiscountFix automatic discount called Weekend 15 that gives 15% off the whole order on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 22:00. Sidekick opens this form filled in, and nothing is saved until you click Save. It can also list your automatic discounts with their orders and sales.

Turn off and on

Use Turn off and Turn on in the list to pause a discount without deleting it.

• Your end date is kept. If the discount runs until 31 December, it still runs until 31 December after you turn it back on. If that date has passed in the meantime, it comes back on without an end date.
• You can edit a discount while it is off. The form shows This discount is turned off, and saving keeps it off. Turn it on from the list when you are ready.
• Shopify's own Discounts page shows a turned-off discount as Expired. That is how Shopify shows paused discounts; it comes back when you turn it on.

Types and value

• Amount off order: a percentage or fixed amount off the order, optionally only on some products or collections.
• Amount off products: a percentage or fixed amount off the eligible products, with an optional cap on how many items get it.
• Shipping discount: free shipping, or a fixed amount off shipping.

The type can't be changed after saving. Order and product discounts can also give free shipping.

Buy X, get the cheapest Y

On Amount off products, tick Buy X, get the cheapest Y free (or discounted). For every X eligible items in the cart, the cheapest Y are free or get the percentage you enter.

Example: Buy 2, cheapest 1, 100% off. A cart with a 100 and a 25 item pays 100. With Repeat for every full group on, 4 items free the 2 cheapest.

Spend and quantity tiers

On Amount off products, tick Use discount tiers and add up to 5 tiers. The highest tier the eligible products reach applies. Below the first tier there is no discount. Choose Tier by: amount spent or number of items.

Happy hour

Tick Only at certain times, pick the days and the hours. The time is your store's time zone. An end time earlier than the start runs past midnight and belongs to the day it started: Friday 23:00 to 02:00 also covers Saturday 00:00 to 02:00.

Loyalty tiers

Tick Reward loyal customers and base the value on what the customer has spent in your store or on their number of past orders. The highest tier reached wins. Guests and customers below the first tier get nothing, so this needs a logged-in customer.

Customer rules

• Customer tags and first order only are checked live at checkout, so they work right away.
• Limit how often each customer gets this discount: a number of uses and/or a waiting time in days. DiscountFix asks once for access to save the count on customers. The count updates a few seconds after each order.

Stop after N orders or a budget

Tick Stop after a number of orders or a discount budget. The discount turns itself off when either limit is reached, and the list shows Limit reached. The count updates a few seconds after each order, so the last orders can go slightly over.

Campaign links

Tick Only for visitors who come through a campaign link and enter a name, for example summer-sale. Share the link DiscountFix shows: any page of your store with ?df_campaign=summer-sale added works. Only carts that came through the link get the discount, with no code to type.

Progress bar in your store

For discounts with a minimum purchase amount or spend tiers, tick Show a progress bar in your store. A bar tells shoppers how much more to add, for example Add 150 more to get 20% off, and changes to You unlocked 20% off! when they get there. It updates as the cart changes.

Click Turn on in theme to enable the DiscountFix progress bar app embed. In the theme editor you can set the position (top or bottom), the colors, and the two messages, for example in your store's language. Use {amount} and {reward} in the messages.

Results

The list shows orders, sales and discount given for each discount. On Pro and Unlimited, click Stats for the average order, a chart over time and the latest orders. Orders appear a few seconds after checkout.

Plans and limits

• Free: 1 active automatic discount at a time. Premium: 3.
• Pro and Unlimited: no limit from DiscountFix.
• Shopify allows up to 25 active automatic discounts per store, including other apps.
• Changing to a smaller plan: if you have more active discounts than the new plan allows, DiscountFix turns off the newest ones and keeps the oldest running. Their settings and end dates are kept, so you can turn them on again after upgrading, or turn another one off first.

Troubleshooting