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Quantity Breaks vs Volume Discounts vs Tiered Pricing on Shopify
Quantity breaks, volume discounts, and tiered pricing usually mean the same feature on Shopify; except for one B2B pricing setup, where mixing them up costs a sale.
Automated discounts and B2B pricing for Shopify
Quantity and volume discounts, per-variant pricing, B2B customer-group offers, bundles, milestone rewards and discount codes — without manual setup.
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Interactive demo
Six discount engines, one app
Every one of them runs right here. Pick an engine, change the numbers, and watch the price react the way it would in your store.
Personalized discount — live preview
This is the admin view — the setup screen inside the app. When every condition you set matches, the discount applies.
Offer condition(s)
IF
You’ve included Germany
Then customers get
Discount type
Condition preview
- IFCountryisGermany
Then customers get
20% discount
Personalized discount
Target an offer by who is buying or what is in the cart, rather than discounting for everyone. This is the B2B and wholesale engine.
How you set it up
- Pick the condition: a customer, a customer tag or list, a country, a cart value, or order history
- Choose the reward: a percentage, a fixed amount, a free gift or free shipping
- Set active dates and whether it can combine with other discounts
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Unique discounts per variant — live preview
Unique discounts per variant
Set a discounted price on individual variants instead of one flat discount across a product. Useful for clearing specific sizes or colours without touching the rest.
How you set it up
- Pick a product, then choose which of its variants are included
- Add one or more quantity ranges, each with its own discounted price
- Variants you leave out keep their regular price
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Milestone offer — live preview
Milestone offer
Reward shoppers for reaching a goal. Set thresholds by order value or item quantity, and attach a reward to each one.
How you set it up
- Set your milestone thresholds in ascending order, by spend or by quantity
- Attach a reward to each milestone — a discount, a free gift or free shipping
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Discount by code — live preview
Discount by code
Codes that shoppers enter at checkout, rather than a discount that applies automatically. Three modes: a single reusable code, a single-use code tied to one customer, or a bulk batch.
Try these codes
How you set it up
- Choose the mode: standard, personalized single-use, or bulk generation of up to 100,000 codes
- Set the value, what it applies to, who is eligible, minimum purchase and usage limits
- Optionally set codes to expire after a period of inactivity, and export the batch as CSV
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Bundle discount — live preview
Bundle discount
Group products together and set a combined discounted price, so a multi-item purchase costs less than the sum of its parts.
How you set it up
- Choose the products that make up the bundle and set the discount
- Optionally add a free gift or free shipping
- Set active dates, and choose whether it can combine with product, order or shipping discounts
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Quantity discount — live preview
Quantity discount
Tiered volume pricing — buy more, save more. Set a minimum quantity and a discount for each tier, and the price drops as the cart quantity crosses each threshold.
How you set it up
- Set tiers: a minimum quantity and a percentage or fixed amount off for each
- Choose where it applies — all products, specific collections, or specific products
- Exclude any products or customers carrying a given tag
Interactive demo. Sample products and illustrative prices — the arithmetic is the app's own.
Compatibility
Fits the store you already run
Rules are set in your Shopify admin, and the storefront widget renders through a theme app block you add once. This is what DiscountRay is listed to work with.
As listed under “Works with” on the DiscountRay page in the Shopify App Store.
Built on Shopify
- Shopify Checkout
- Shopify Admin
- Shopify Functions
- Shopify Markets
- Multi Currency
Works alongside
- PageFly
- MultiVariants – Bulk Order
Margin safety
Discount with your margin in view
When a code stacks with an automatic discount the two compound rather than add. DiscountRay shows the real combined figure while you set it.
The meter accounts for discounts DiscountRay manages. It cannot see discounts created by other apps on your store.
Combined discount
ExampleAutomatic20%Code20%
36%not 40%
1 − (1 − a) × (1 − b)
Green under about 30%, amber around 30–45%, red above about 45%.
Merchant reviews
What merchants say
Reviews from stores running DiscountRay.
“At 1948Water, we deal with bulk, weighed products, which always makes shipping and discounting tricky. Shopify’s native discounting options weren’t flexible enough for our needs—especially when trying to incentivize larger purchases while managing shipping constraints. That’s where DiscountRay came in.”
1948 WATER “We installed the DiscountRay app on Shopify, and it shows up automatically on the product page. It's a great app! It's super easy to use and works perfectly with Shopify theme. Now, I can offer discounts with maximum quantities and variants, which I couldn’t do with Shopify's standard discounts. The installation was also really simple.”
Galactic Plus “Support is excellent—very easy to talk to and super helpful with any assistance needed.”
XO Armor Technologies “Amazing app together with multivariant app and the support is another level!”
Stagepush
“Fantastic App that seriously helps with conversions. Recommend this App to anyone! Great team with great support! Thank you for all fast turnaround time!”
Blank Print Media “I have the Multivariants App and the Discount Ray App that work together for a wholesale listing. I ran into a couple issues and Discount Ray, jumped right in and got it taken care of for me. They were friendly and great to work with. I highly recommend.”
Peacock Powder “amazing support!We needed a way to offer automatic volume discounts and tiered pricing without creating a mess in our checkout process. DiscountRay made it effortless. The variant-specific quantity discounts were a game-changer, allowing us to run clearance promotions on specific product weights without applying unnecessary discounts across our entire store.”
Pearls and Pelicans “5 stars for DiscountRay-Custom Price app I cannot stress how easy the app is to use and if there are any roadblocks their team is ready to help - via chat, email OR a live call! The human component means more than how amazing the app is - connecting with someone who has the knowledge and patience to help and guide how to use the app properly is what it's all about. Afifa was so kind and helpful!!!!”
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