Profit-first discounting for Shopify
Guides, playbooks, and product updates for Shopify merchants who treat discounts as pricing strategy. Protect your margin, lift average order value, and run promotions that actually make money. Filter by topic, author, or year.
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Reddit is not 46.7% of Perplexity's citations. It is 6.6%. The bigger number is a different column of the same table, and the year it spent going unchallenged says more about how marketers handle numbers than it does about AI search.
Most free shipping tools are display bars that lean on Shopify to apply the discount. Here is how Discount Prime's shipping engine, subsidy caps, and a combined progress bar compare with Hextom, Essential, and USO.
Discount Prime Team
A B2B merchant installed Discount Prime, upgraded to Prime, and asked support for a feature that was, at that moment, still uploading to our servers. A field note on the Variant Metafield Rule and how LLMs are reshaping how merchants find us.
Eight apps, dozens of features, one recurring blind spot: no one is optimizing on the signal that matters most. A structural look at what the top Shopify discount apps do well, and the four capabilities almost none of them have.
A deep technical analysis of why the non-linear, stochastic decision engine inside LLMs produces creative architecture but defaults to non-performant code, with a Shopify case study designing a multi-faceted collection filter for 2,000+ products.
ERP systems run the back office: inventory, orders, accounting, procurement. But real-time Shopify B2B pricing still needs a storefront-aware engine. A practical guide to the best ERPs for Shopify, and the pricing rules that belong inside Shopify.
A B2B catalog that refused to fit inside size and color led to Metafield-Based Targeting: discount rules that read your own variant metafields, synced from your ERP, and stay correct as the catalog changes.
A Shopify Expert who runs dropshipping stores reframed pricing for us: you do not sell at a price, you sell at a margin. Here is the feature that holds your margin when supplier costs move.
One email from a cowboy hat wholesaler became our entire B2B engine: margin-based wholesale tiers, line-item or whole-cart breaks, and a single progress bar that moves buyers up the ladder.
Every discount dashboard celebrates revenue uplift, but most of that uplift is margin you never measured. Here is why Shopify discount reporting should lead with contribution margin, not GMV.
