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Introduction
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create your first discount, but first, let us break down the different segments that make up a usual discount inside the Conditional Discounts for the WooCommerce plugin. The Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin allows you to create simple discounts with all sorts of rules and conditions.
The Anatomy of a Discount
The “Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce” plugin is a robust tool that can help you create your first discount with ease. You can also create and manage various types of discounts in your WooCommerce-powered online store.
Below you have the overview of the Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin:
- Plugin Installation and Activation:
- To get started, you need to install and activate the “Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce” plugin on your WordPress website.
- Discount Configuration:
- After activation, you can access the plugin’s settings and start configuring your discounts. This typically involves navigating to the plugin’s settings within the WooCommerce dashboard.
- Discount Types:
- The plugin offers various discount types, including:
- Cart Discounts: These discounts are applied based on the total value of the items in the customer’s shopping cart.
- Product Discounts: Discounts specific to certain products or product categories.
- User Discounts: Discounts based on user roles or specific users.
- Time-Based Discounts: Discounts that are only active during specified date ranges or times.
- Shipping Discounts: Discounts applied to shipping costs.
- Payment Gateway Discounts: Discounts for specific payment methods.
- BOGO (Buy One Get One) Discounts: Deals like “Buy One, Get One Free.”
- And many more…
- The plugin offers various discount types, including:
- Conditions and Rules:
- You can set conditions and rules for each discount. For example:
- Minimum purchase amount.
- Minimum and maximum quantity of products.
- Specific product categories or individual products.
- User roles or specific users.
- Date and time range for the discount’s availability.
- You can set conditions and rules for each discount. For example:
- Discount Amount or Percentage:
- Specify whether the discount will be a fixed amount or a percentage off the total.
- Application Priority:
- Determine the order in which discounts are applied if you have multiple discounts running simultaneously.
- Display and Communication:
- Configure how the discount is displayed to customers, such as showing the original and discounted prices on product pages and in the cart.
- Testing and Preview:
- Many discount plugins, including this one, allow you to preview discounts before making them live. This helps ensure that the discounts work as intended.
- Save and Activate:
- Once you’ve configured the discount to your satisfaction, save the settings and activate the discount.
- Monitoring and Analytics:
- After the discount is live, you can monitor its performance through WooCommerce reports or the plugin’s analytics features. This allows you to assess the impact of your discounts on sales and customer behavior.
- Optimization and Adjustment:
- Based on the analytics and customer feedback, you can fine-tune your discounts to achieve the desired results. You might adjust the discount amount, conditions, or timing to maximize its effectiveness.
- Deactivation and Removal:
- If a discount is no longer needed, you can deactivate or delete it using the plugin’s interface.
The major segments of a typical discount offered by the Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin are:
- Periods and Dates
- Rules
- Applicable Actions
First Segment: Periods and Dates
To create your first discount, you will need this segment, it pertains to the dates and periods that you need the discount to be active. All the fields in this segment are optional. You can use them if you need to measure impact and tweak discounts to see what works for your store. The fields in this segment are:
- Start date
- End date
- Repeat every
- User’s limit
Second Segment: Rules
- Rules groups relationship: gives you two options OR and AND. “AND” implies that all group rules must be verified before the discount action can be applied. “OR” means that any one of the rules you specify can be valid before the discount action is applied.
- Rules: These are the conditions that must be met for the customer to enjoy the discount that you set up.
| SN | Rule | Operator | Value |
| 1 | If Customer Role | IN/NOT IN | List of all user roles on the site. |
| 2 | If Customer’s email domain name | Type in domain names, separated by commas, e.g. yahoo.com, gmail.com, etc. | |
| 3 | If Customer | List of all registered users on the site. | |
| 4 | If Previous Orders count | LESS THAN, EQUAL TO, MORE THAN, OR A MULTIPLE OF | Type in a numerical number |
| 5 | If Total spent in shop | ||
| 6 | If Previously ordered products count | ||
| 7 | If Previously ordered products | IN/NOT IN | List of all created product lists |
| 8 | If Order subtotal | LESS THAN, EQUAL TO, MORE THAN, OR A MULTIPLE OF | Type in a numerical number |
| 9 | If Order subtotal (inc. taxes) | ||
| 10 | If Order items count | ||
| 11 | If Different order items count | ||
| 12 | If Order products | IN/NOT IN | List of all created product lists |
| 13 | If Customer reviewed any product | ||
| 14 | If payment gateway | List of all activated payment gateways in the WooCommerce store | |
| 15 | If Customer billing country | IN/NOT IN | List of all published countries in the WooCommerce store |
| 16 | If billing state | List of all published states in countries in the WooCommerce store | |
| 17 | If Shipping Country | List of all published countries in the WooCommerce store | |
| 18 | If Shipping state | List of all published states in countries in the WooCommerce store | |
| 19 | If Shipping method | List of all activated shipping methods in the WooCommerce store | |
| 20 | If Customer subscribed to MailChimp list | IN/NOT IN | List of all MailChimp lists of the connected MailChimp account |
| 21 | If Customer subscribed to a SendInBlue list | List of all SendInBlue lists of the connected SendInBlue account | |
| 22 | If Customer subscribed to a NewsletterPlugin list | IN/NOT IN | List of all the connected NewsletterPlugin subscriber lists. |
| 23 | If Customer is following an affiliate link | IN/NOT IN | List of affiliate membership lists |
| 24 | If Customer belongs to specified groups | IN/NOT IN | List of created groups |
| 25 | If shop currency | IN/NOT IN | List of all currencies in the WooCommerce store. |
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Third Segment: Applicable Actions
To create your first discount using the Conditional Discounts for WooCommerce plugin, once the chosen rule conditions are met by a customer, several types of actions are applicable.
Actions are benefits the customer enjoys from the discount, once these rules are met, these actions can be loosely divided into these sections:
| SN | Section | Action Title | Type |
| 1 | Product price: These actions affect the product price that the customer will be charged at the front end. | Percentage off product price | Percentage |
| Fixed amount off product price | Fixed amount | ||
| Fixed product price | Fixed amount | ||
| 2 | Cheapest product price in cart: These actions target the products with the cheapest product price, that meets the discount rules. | Percentage off cheapest product price in cart | Percentage |
| Fixed amount off cheapest product price in cart | Fixed amount | ||
| 3 | Lowest subtotal in cart: These actions select the products with the lowest subtotals in the customer’s cart. | Percentage off product with lowest subtotal in cart | Percentage |
| Fixed amount off product with lowest subtotal in cart | Fixed amount | ||
| 4 | Order subtotal: These actions focus on the total order subtotal of the customer. | Percentage off order subtotal | Percentage |
| Percentage off order subtotal (inc. taxes) | Percentage | ||
| Fixed amount off order subtotal | Fixed amount | ||
| Fixed amount off order subtotal (inc. taxes) | Fixed amount | ||
| 5 | Shipping fees: These actions change the shipping fees of the customer’s order. | Percentage off shipping fees | Percentage |
| Fixed amount off shipping fees | Fixed amount | ||
| Fixed shipping fees | Fixed amount | ||
| 6 | Free gift: This action provides another WooCommerce product in your selected product list, to give the customer as a reward when the discount rules are met. | Free Gift | Product(s) |
Below the “Actions” segment, several sub-fields that assist in defining the selected action are listed.
| SN | Sub-Action | Action Section |
| 1 | Percentage/Fixed Amount: the amount to be applied as the selected discount e.g. 50% | Product price, Cheapest product price in cart, Lowest subtotal in cart, Order subtotal, Shipping fees |
| 2 | Evaluate per product: [STILL IN BETA] to determine if the products in the cart should be evaluated one by one or all together. | Product price, Cheapest product price in cart, Lowest subtotal in cart |
| 3 | Products list: the list of products that the selected discount will be applied upon. | Product price, Cheapest product price in cart, Lowest subtotal in cart |
| 4 | Disable on products and shop pages: whether or not to display the discount on the products and shop pages. | Product price, Cheapest product price in cart, Lowest subtotal in cart |
| 5 | NB. Cheapest products: the number of products to consider for this subaction. | Cheapest product price in cart, Lowest subtotal in cart |
| 6 | Taxable: whether the resulting discount amount should be taxed or not. | Order subtotal |
| 7 | Shipping methods: the list of shipping methods active in the WooCommerce configuration. | Shipping fees |
| 8 | Gifts List: The field contains all the products list you have created, for you to select one to be used for the gift(s), in the Free gifts discount. | Free gifts |
| 9 | Gifts Limit: the upper limit to the number of gifts that each customer can enjoy. | Free gifts |
How to create my first discount?
To create your first discount, take the following steps:
- Map out your discount: You need to determine how the discount will be implemented. Things like, if you need to set start and end dates; if you need to limit the number of users that will benefit, what actions you want to apply, and so on. You also need to factor in whether you need a product list or not. If you do not need a product list, proceed to the next step. If you do need a product list, learn how to do that.
- Go to your store’s back end and click Discounts > New Discount.
- Add a descriptive title. If your discount requires it, add values to the first segment: Periods and dates. Otherwise, go straight to the next step.
- Rules: Click on Add rules group to create a rules set.
- From the dropdown list, choose the rule that tallies with your mapped discount in step 1. Depending on your selection, the extra values required for the rule will also change to fit, e.g. if you select the rule “If customer subscribed to Mailchimp list”, the display changes to bring out an operator (IN, NOT IN), and a drop-down field of existing MailChimp lists in your linked MailChimp account.
- Sometimes a discount will require that you combine more than one rule to achieve the results you need. Add any additional rules and the parameters that will achieve your discount.
- Actions: An action usually achieves the discount you want the customer to enjoy. It could be a reduction in the cost price of a particular product in their cart via a percentage or a fixed amount deduction or an additional product at no cost to the customer.
Select an action and the corresponding sub-action to go with it. - Publish your discount.
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Quantity Based Discounts
It is important to note that when your discount strategy is for bulk discounts and based on only one WooCommerce product, it might be easier for you to use the “Quantity Based Discounts” that you will find in every WooCommerce product. Read more about Quantity-Based Discounts here.
Conclusion
In conclusion, creating your first discount is very easy. You also have access to different types of discounts, ones that can attract customers, boost sales, and foster customer loyalty.
Whether you’re a business owner looking to increase revenue or a consumer seeking a great deal, discounts offer mutual benefits. By carefully planning and implementing your discount, considering factors like target audience, discount type, and timing, you can optimize its impact and achieve your desired objectives.
Remember to monitor the results, gather feedback, and adjust your discount strategy as needed to continuously improve and drive success.
Discounts are a valuable tool in the world of commerce, and with thoughtful execution, they can be a win-win for both businesses and customers alike.
How to create a sale page for the discounted products? the short code or the builder widgets do not seem to work.
Hello Sam, can I see the shortcode used please?
Can’t set up a rule using the OR option, is is disabled in the free trial ?
Hi Jimi, it is available in the free version. Can not see the option or it does not work?
Maybe if you explain what you want to do, I can advise you.
I can see and select the option, but when I set up two rules it shows AND nor OR
Okay you must the “OR” of the rules groups relationship to link the different rules and the button “Add rules group” to add the rules.
Right, got it now and it works.
Still can’t achieve my desired result, trying to set it up so that buying any 2 items (or multiples of 2) from a list gives a discount, but if 3 are bought only 2 get the discount. Unfortunately it counts all items in the basket not just ones on the list. Any Idea’s ?
thanks for your help
Please follow this tutorial How To Create a WooCommerce Bulk Discount per Category?
Si, he probado cambiando el % de descuento y aparece igual, ya verifique desactivando todos los complementos y el detalle persiste. que mas podria ser???
Estoy teniendo el mismo problema. Lo noté recién la semana pasada cuando actualicé la regla del descuento por el Cybermonday. La etiqueta del descuento que se ve sobre los productos marca o suma 100% al descuento real.
Hello,
Could you please run a quick conflict test by:
Disabling all other plugins except WooCommerce and our plugin.
Switching the theme to one of the defaults such as twenty sixteen.
Test again.
If everything works as expected, that means there’s conflict somewhere; so you can start re-enabling the disabled plugins/theme one by one in order to find the culprit.
Once you do, please let us know by starting a live chat so we can take the next appropriate steps.
Hola tengo un detalle, estoy usando la versión free ya configure todo y el único problema que me da es que la etiqueta que aparece al producto donde muestra el descuento, aparece con el -100%, cuando en mi caso solo he colocado un 20% que puedo hacer para solucionarlo
Hello Marlon, can you make sure that only the 20% discount is applied to the product?
If so, maybe it’s a conflict with another plugin or the theme.
Could you run a quick conflict test using:
Disable all other plugins except WooCommerce and our plugin.
Changed the theme to one of the default settings, such as twenty-six.
Try again.
If everything works as expected, it means there is a conflict somewhere; so you can start to reactivate the disabled plugins / themes one by one to find the culprit.
Si, he probado cambiando el % de descuento y aparece igual, ya verifique desactivando todos los complementos y el detalle persiste. que mas podria ser???
iniciar un chat para que el equipo técnico pueda ayudarlo
hi, I want to apply discount only on the first purchase. Is this possible?
Hello Hasinah, yes it is possible. See the tutorial number 8 here https://discountsuiteforwp.com/top-woocommerce-dynamic-pricing-deals-examples/
Hi!
I have applied a percentage discount to my product (40%). It’s working but how do i get the striked out price effect on my page?
That only possible using sale price? I don’t want to use sale price.
Thanks!
Please make sure that you have disabled this option https://prnt.sc/uzwwoo
Hi. I’ve 2 discounts running at the same time (List 1 has certain categories selected and List 2 has certain products from within those categories but at a different discount %, e.g 20% instead of 10%). I’ve added the product IDs form List 2 to remove them from List 1 so that a double discount isn’t applied. This all seems to work fine except for the fact that on the frontend of the store products from List 1 don’t display the discounted price or Sale badge on the product category pages/product page/cart (displays discount on checkout page) but the items from the other List 2 do display correctly. Any idea why this might be happening?
Hello Rob, Please start a livechat so that someone can help you with the configuration.
Thank you.
Applying a percentage discount to a product (using only normal price), how do i get the striked out price effect on my product page?
Is there a way to turn on the quantity based pricing for orders added in the Admin WooCommerce – > Add Order section? Currently when I add an item it charges the single piece price.
Hello Joey, no it’s not possible for the moment.
I have a prob when I create the discount rule, I want to make a discount 5% per items when user buy 2 items, so I configured
Rules: if order item count equals 2
Action: percentage of product type
Percentage / Fixed amount : 5
After that, I make a test but the result is each item gets 10% off the price, and I have to change the Percentage to 2.5 and the result is exactly what I want. Please help me understand why
Hello Vinh,
It’s very strange. Please start a live chat so that our technical support can help you.
Thank you
Does the “repeat every” option still available? I cannot see it on the free trial
Yes it’s a premium feature that still exists