This guide covers some examples of common discount code use-cases.
Before you start
- If you are unfamiliar with the discount code creation process, we recommend checking out the Creating discount codes article.
- If you have more than 100 discount codes to create, please follow the guidelines outlined in Creating discount codes in bulk
Discount code with a minimum purchase amount
Before creating a minimum discount code you should be aware of the following:
- The minimum purchase amount requirement is valid on checkout only and only applies to one charge per customer.
- Minimum amount discount codes can not be applied to existing customers via the Customer Portal or through our API.
- The minimum amount discount codes must apply to the entire order, so you cannot specify a specific product or collection.
The Create discount page contains a note about the limitations explained in this section.
To demonstrate the settings, the following example contains a discount code for 10% off an order, but will require the minimum order value to be $20.
You can also set an application limit where you can limit the number of times this discount can be used in total. When checked, you will be prompted to enter in a total amount. This will be the number of times the discount code can be used in total across your customer base. For example, if you enter 100, this discount code could be used by 100 customers.
You can also limit to one subscription per customer. When checked, this setting will limit the use of the discount code to one per customer. ReCharge uses the e-mail address on file to determine if the customer has used the discount code previously.
As a fixed or percentage discount with a minimum order requirement can only be applied at checkout, the One charge only option is automatically selected.
Lastly, you will have the option to select a start date and an end date. This setting is not mandatory. If not specified, the discount code will be valid after creation.
Once finished Save the discount code. The final discount page contains all the discount code details that you entered as well as the number of times that this discount code is used and the discount ID.
Free shipping discount code
Free shipping discount code is created with the purpose of making shipping free for the entire order. This discount code can only reduce the shipping price entirely (100% discounted shipping price). It cannot be applied to specific products or collections and it cannot be limited to one application per customer.
Limit number of times this discount can be used in total – As previously explained this will set the total amount of times that this code can be used in total. Limit to one subscription per customer is automatically hidden since this type of discount code can only be applied to one subscription per customer.
Apply discount code to checkout automatically
You may want to apply a discount code automatically at checkout rather than have your customers provide the discount code on their end. You can accomplish this in ReCharge using custom code on the cart page.
- This feature will require advanced Shopify liquid, and possibly HTML and JavaScript knowledge. This is not part of ReCharge's standard turnkey solution.
- This feature is not supported by ReCharge as per our design policy since it requires custom coding.
- This implementation does not work if the discount code is set to apply once per customer as this setting relies on the email address of the customer which is not submitted on the cart page. If you require this set-up, you would need to use the API and apply the discount code post-purchase.
- This will work with all types of discounts, fixed amount, percentage, or shipping.
General implementation
To add an automatic discount code, you would need to pass the discount code in the URL. Using Shopify Liquid/JavaScript, you could add custom code that will read the items in the cart, determine which discount to pass, and then modifies the URL to pass the discount code in the URL.
You would need to edit your Shopify Theme code and use JavaScript logic to change and redirect the URL by appending discount={{CODE NAME}} at the end of the checkout URL.
An example checkout URL:
/r/checkout?myshopify_domain=bootstrap dev.myshopify.com&cart_token=5566cd50a07c3c944f9b4d42524f5f98&discount=HALFOFF
The redirection to the checkout page happens within the file subscription-cart-footer.liquid, so you would have your JavaScript append the discount to the URL on the redirect.