Quantity discounts

Buying more should cost less each, and customers should see where the breaks are. A quantity discount does both.

You type the breaks once. The product page shows every break, marks the one the customer is in, and says how many more unlock the next.

This is a Pro feature. It lives on the product itself.

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Size options, a quantity grid and price breaks. Twelve printed sweatshirts in mixed colours and sizes on one product, cheaper as the order grows. Watch on YouTube

Turn it on

1. Edit the product and open Product options.
2. Open the Quantity discount row.
3. Tick Offer quantity discounts on this product.
4. Type your breaks, as below.
5. Press Update.

Type your breaks

Each break is a quantity range and the price each unit pays there. Write it the way a trade price list reads:

• 10-24 covers ten to twenty-four.
• 25 to 49 reads the same as 25-49.
• 50+ or 50 and over has no top.
• up to 9 is a ceiling.

A number on its own means that exact quantity, so write 10+ for ten and up. Each row shows how it will be read, such as “10 to 24” or “50 and up”.

In a shop that runs in another language, breaks can be typed in its own words too, such as bis 9, 10 bis 24 and ab 25 in German (from 2.10.1). The help line under the list shows your language’s word. English words and <= work in every language.

Price tables read ranges the same way. Below your first break, customers pay the product’s normal price.

A row needs a range and a price. A row with no price is dropped when you save, so a half-typed row never gives the product away.

Choose Unit prices or Percent off:

• Unit prices. What one costs at that quantity, like a trade list. On a variable product, a dearer variation keeps its difference. If the XL costs £2.00 more, it costs £2.00 more in every break.
• Percent off. The same cut from each variation’s own price.

Rather not start from a blank list? Beside Or fill in:, press 10, 25, 50, 2, 12 or 50, 100, 250. Each fills in those breaks, priced from the product’s own price. Every figure is yours to change.

Two breaks that overlap are pointed out before you save. The higher break wins as typed. The Shoppers will see line prices a sample order as you type.

A break never raises a price

If the product is on sale below a break price, customers keep the cheaper price.

Use one break list on many products

If several products share the same breaks, write them once as a break list.

1. In the WordPress menu, go to BossMage, then Break lists.
2. Press New list.
3. Name it and type the breaks.
4. Press Create the list.

On any product, the quantity discount panel offers your lists by name. Pick one, and the panel shows the breaks in that product’s own prices.

Edit the list later, and every product using it follows. Delete it, and each product goes back to its own typed rows, prices unchanged.

A break list is always percentages. A pound price belongs to one product, so pound breaks stay on the product.

Tick Shop default on one list. Every product that newly turns on quantity discounts starts on it.

What customers see

Under How the breaks are shown, pick one:

• Price table. Quantity, price each and the saving, row by row, like a trade price list. The row for the current quantity is marked.
• Card ladder. Each break as a card with its price and saving, like a retail offer. Clicking a card sets the quantity to that break.

Either way, a line under the breaks says what comes next: “Add 7 more and every one drops to £19.90 each.” Once the best break is reached, it says so.

The receipt under the options shows the product at its break price, with the break named. The page, the receipt and the cart agree.

Each price includes the options

The Each column is what one unit costs at every break: the break price plus the per-item options picked. Pick a priced print, and every row rises with it.

The cards, the running price and the “add more” line all show that same number. A customer pricing 25 printed polos reads the printed polo’s price, not the plain garment’s.

Charges made once per order stay out of it. Spread across a changing quantity, they would drift as the customer types.

The same holds on the quantity grid. Pick a priced print area beside the size run, and every break’s figure follows. That works for any kind of option price: a choice, a priced field, a per-letter fee or a priced upload.

Each price times the quantity is the total

A percentage break rarely lands on a whole penny. 5% off £13.34 is £12.673.

So each break price is rounded to the penny before it’s multiplied. So is each per-item option or print charge the break reaches. The table says £12.67 each, five cost £63.35, and the cart charges £63.35.

This holds whether your prices are entered with or without tax.

On a variable product, every figure follows the variation picked. Choose the dearer size, and the Each column, the running price and the nudge all describe that size.

The whole order counts

Every line of the same product in the cart counts toward the same break. Lines of 8 and 17 reach the 25 break together.

A size run on the quantity grid counts as one order. 8 Medium, 8 Large and 9 XL polos are 25 polos, and every one gets the 25 price.

Options and the discount

By default, the breaks discount the product itself. Options keep their own prices: the polo gets cheaper, the embroidery doesn’t.

Under The breaks also discount, two ticks bring more into the discount:

• Option prices, per item. Per-item option charges take the same percentage off.
• Print and embroidery prices, per item. Per-item print and embroidery charges join in too.

Tick either, both or neither. Charges made once per order, such as a set-up or artwork check, never change. One piece of work costs the same at any quantity.

On a quantity grid built from option sets, a dearer colour or size counts as an option. Sweatshirts in a colour costing £0.40 more pay the full £0.40 at every break, unless Option prices, per item is ticked.

Turned on the old single setting before these ticks existed? Both arrive ticked, so your prices don’t move.

In a BundleBoss bundle

Inside a BundleBoss bundle the breaks still count. Twelve polos picked across colours and sizes cost what twelve cost on the polo’s own page. Needs BundleBoss 6.3.0.

Where the bundle prices by quantity itself, its own price wins and these breaks stand down. The two never stack. That covers:

• A fixed-price bundle.
• A box or grid with its own tiers.
• A box priced by its size.
• A Buy X get Y offer.

See a product’s own quantity price.

Orders and tax

The order line shows which break applied and the unit price it earned. Every figure follows your shop’s tax settings, like the rest of AddOnBoss.