How quantity breaks work
What a tier is, what the customer sees, and how the discount reaches checkout.
A quantity break is a list of offer tiers on your product page. Each tier is one quantity of the same product at one discount.
What the customer sees
| Tier | Quantity | Discount | Shown as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offer #1 | 1 | No discount | 1 Pack — $10.00 |
| Offer #2 | 2 | 10% off | 2 Pack — $18.00 |
| Offer #3 | 3 | 20% off | 3 Pack — $24.00 |
The tier marked Selected by default is highlighted when the page loads. If none is marked, the first tier that isn't sold out is.
The customer taps a tier, then clicks your theme's normal Add to cart button. While a quantity break shows, the app hides your theme's own quantity picker (on themes it recognizes) and the accelerated checkout buttons such as Buy it now, so customers choose the quantity through the offer.
What happens next
The selected tier's quantity is added to the cart — pick the 3-pack, and three units go in.
Any free gifts attached to that tier are added too, along with any upsell the customer ticked.
At checkout, Shopify's automatic discount function applies the tier's discount. The app keeps one automatic discount for all your deals, named Oxify Bundle Discount, which you'll see under Discounts in your Shopify admin.
Because the discount lands at checkout, the cart may briefly show full price. The total the customer pays is the discounted one.
Good candidates
Quantity breaks work best on products people buy more than one of — supplements, cosmetics, coffee, socks, consumables, refills.
If you want customers to combine different products instead, use a Mix & Match offer or the Bundle Builder. The Add Offer menu has Mix & Match and Buy X, get Y free next to Quantity break. See Choose a template for what each one does.
Rules worth knowing
- One bundle per product page. If several bundles target the same product, the most specific one wins: selected products, then selected collections, then all-except-selected, then all products. Same mode on both? A bundle set to a specific market beats one for all markets, and after that the older bundle wins. See Choose where the offer appears.
- Quantity must be at least 1 on every tier. A zero, a negative number, or a decimal is reset to
1. - Tier order is what customers see. Reorder with the Move Up / Move Down buttons.
- Checkout counts what's in the cart. If a customer lowers the quantity in the cart below the tier they picked, they get the discount of the highest tier they still reach, or none.
- Whole bundles get the discount. Unless the tier has Show quantity selector on, checkout discounts complete multiples of the tier's quantity. On a 3-pack, 7 units in the cart means 6 are discounted and the 7th pays full price. With the selector on, every unit gets the discount.