Volume discounts will help you to free up stock in your eCommerce, reduce production and management costs per unit and increase the total sales of your eCommerce.
In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to create and automate volume discounts in a few minutes with Planet.
The first step to creating a discount is to add a new promotion. To do this, you must access the rules page and click on "add promotion".
When you do this, a pop-up will appear with the available presets to create your promotion. In this case, you should choose the "Volume discount" preset to create a volume discount.
Volume Discount Configuration
1. Products
To create a promotion in any of the available templates, you must choose the products on promotion.
2. Actions
In this case, the only action required is to configure the volume discount.
This configuration includes:
Product combination: The discount will be applied to buying X units of the same item, variant, or buying X units of combined items of the selected products.
Discount options: we must select the quantity of products to apply the discount, the amount of discount, and the type of discount.
Quantity: the discount is applied for a minimum quantity (from 5 products) or a fixed quantity (buy exactly 10 units).
Discount types:
Percentage discount: 10% discount when buying 2 units
Quantity discount: 10€ discount per unit, when buying 2 units
Fixed price per unit: 10€ each unit when buying 2 units
Total fixed price: 20€ total when buying 2 units
No discount: original price without additional discount
Method: the discount is applied automatically or is applied using a discount code.
Cart & checkout label: name that appears in the cart for the discount applied.
Other discount combinations: This allows you to choose if you want to combine this discount with other product discounts and/or shipping discounts.
Currency Conversion: When selling in markets that operate in currencies different from the store’s default (for example, EUR), Planet automatically applies a conversion based on exchange rates provided by Shopify. This ensures the discount is correctly adjusted to the customer’s local currency.
If enabled, the discount or fixed price is automatically converted to the market’s currency.
If disabled, the discount or fixed price value will be applied directly without conversion, which may lead to slight differences in the amount perceived by customers.
For example: if a fixed discount of €10 is set, a customer purchasing in another currency, such as USD, would receive a fixed discount of $10.
3. Widgets
It will be necessary to add the block for each widget in the Shopify theme to allow them to be displayed on the product page.
These are the available widgets in the volume discounts:
3.1 Banner on product page
Optionally, you can add a banner on your product page to inform your customers of the promotion.
Texts and appearance of this banner are customizable for each promotion.
3.2 Volume discount selector on product page
Optionally, you can add a volume discount selector on your product page to show the discount on your products and variants and promote your product sales.
From Planet you will be able to configure and customize the following fields in each promotion to adapt them to the style of your store:
General configuration
Title (optional)
Options: optionally, you can show the variant selector, show the quantity selector in the last option and show the out-of-stock label when a product is not available.
Also, within these options, you can choose which type of compare at price to show:
Do not show any compare at price.
Show as compare at price the original price of the product.
Show as compare at price the price before the volume discount.
Option #1, #2, #3...: the text and the label included in each of the options can be customized independently. In addition, one of the options can be preselected by default to stand out from the rest.
Buy button: you will be able to customize the text displayed on the buy button. Also, you will be able to hide the buy button from the widget to make it work with the buy button on your product page.
Remember that you can include variables within the text and labels to show the amount of discount, products or the price per unit in each option.
Design
You will be able to edit the colors, font size and rounding of the different sections of the quantity selector to adapt the design 100% to your store.
In addition, you can add a background to the widget with custom color and border color.
CSS Custom
If you need to configure the styling beyond the fields available in the app, all widgets allow you to embed CSS code through the theme editor.
Click on the Planet - Quantity Selector block and in the left panel enter the CSS code you want to modify in the widget.
4. Schedule the promotion
When you create the promotion, the date of promotion creation will be set as the default start date. You can edit the start date and optionally, add an end date or more schedules.
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