A deal is the container for a full quantity-break offer. This article covers creating one and setting its core details. Styling, tiers, and product targeting each have their own dedicated articles — here we focus on getting the deal itself set up correctly.
Naming and Titling the Deal
- Start a new deal in Drip Discounts.
- Enter a name. This is your internal reference and must be unique across your store, so use something descriptive like "Coffee 3-pack bundle."
- Enter a title. This is the customer-facing heading shown above the tiers on the product page.
The name is for you; the title is for shoppers. Keeping them distinct helps you manage many deals without confusing your storefront copy.
Choosing the Layout
- Select vertical to stack the tiers on top of each other — good for narrow columns and mobile.
- Select horizontal to place the tiers side by side — good for wide product pages.
Choosing the Pricing Option
This is a single checkbox, Show prices per item, in the Prices section of the deal editor.
- Ticked — shoppers see the discounted price of a single unit at each tier.
- Unticked — shoppers see the total price for the whole bundle at that tier.
The box is unticked by default, so a brand-new deal shows bundle totals. Pick whichever framing makes your saving feel most compelling for that product.
Adding Tiers and Targeting
- Add at least one quantity tier — every deal requires a minimum of one.
- Set the deal's visibility (all products, specific products, or specific collections) and choose the products or collections it covers.
Saving the Deal
- Review your settings and save the deal.
- Drip Discounts queues a background job that creates or updates the matching Shopify automatic discount, so savings apply at checkout.
Because that job runs on a queue, the Shopify discount appears a moment after you save rather than instantly.
How Your Deals Map to Shopify Discounts
Your deals do not map one-to-one onto Shopify discounts forever. The app only ever maintains five Shopify automatic discounts per store.
- Your first five deals each get their own Shopify automatic discount.
- From the sixth deal onward, each new deal is appended to one of those five existing discounts rather than getting a new one. Deal 6 joins deal 1's discount, deal 7 joins deal 2's, and so on, cycling around.
You can see this in the discount names in Shopify Admin. A discount holding one deal is called Quantity Breaks - <deal name>; one holding several is called Quantity Breaks - <first deal name> (+N), where N is how many extra deals share it.
this is why a store with, say, eight deals shows only five discounts in Shopify Admin. Nothing is missing — three of your deals are riding along inside discounts named after a different deal.
Once saved, the deal is ready to display — make sure the Quantity Breaks theme block is enabled on your product pages so shoppers can see it.