Discount Types Overview

Each discount type has different behavior, available application modes, and settings. This page provides a quick overview for choosing the right type.

Basic Overview

Type	Description
Product	Discount applied directly to the product price
Cart	Discount on the entire cart as a separate line item
Bulk	Progressive discounts based on product quantity
Bundle	Discount when cart contains a complete product combination across multiple slots
Buy X Get X	BOGO — same product free or discounted
Buy X Get Y	BOGO — different product free or discounted
Free Gift	Choose a gift from a list when conditions are met
Upsell	Offer complementary products with a discount

Feature Comparison

Feature	Product	Cart	Bulk	Bundle	BOGO X	BOGO Y	Free Gift	Upsell
Discounted product = product from filters	Yes	—	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Defines discounted products in tiers	—	—	—	—	—	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tiers (ranges)	—	—	Yes	—	Yes	Yes	—	Yes
Per item mode	—	—	—	—	—	Yes	—	Yes
Count mode	—	—	Yes	—	Yes	Yes	—	Yes

Available Application Modes

Type	Adjust price	Cart discount	Manual select (cart)	Manual select (product)	Auto add	Upsell in cart item
Product	default	—	—	—	—	—
Cart	—	default	—	—	—	—
Bulk	default	—	—	—	—	—
Bundle	Yes	default	—	—	—	—
Buy X Get X	—	default	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Buy X Get Y	—	default	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free Gift	—	—	default	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upsell	—	—	Yes	Yes	—	default

Discounted Item Behavior in Cart

An important distinction between discount types is how discounted products behave after being added to the cart:

Behavior	Buy X Get X	Buy X Get Y	Free Gift	Upsell
Item can trigger additional discounts	No	No	No	Yes

Note

For Buy X Get X, Buy X Get Y, and Free Gift types, discounted items in the cart are isolated — they are not counted in filters or conditions of other rules.

For the Upsell type, added products behave as standard cart items and can trigger additional discount rules.

Pool System

The pool system ensures that a single unit of a product in the cart cannot be used to activate multiple discounts simultaneously.

Type	Pool system
Product, Cart, Bulk, Bundle	Not used
Buy X Get X, Buy X Get Y	Consumes — products from filters are consumed and are not available for other rules
Free Gift, Upsell	Not used — products from filters remain available for triggering other rules

Rule Priority

Because Buy X Get X and Buy X Get Y consume from the pool system, the order of rule evaluation matters. Rules with higher priority consume from the pool first.

Pool system details

Count Mode

The Count Mode setting in the filters section affects how products in the cart are grouped for calculating limits and discount eligibility.

Mode	Behavior
All matching products	All products matching the filter are counted together
Per parent product	Variations of the same product are grouped; each parent product has its own limit
Per variant	Each variation is counted separately with its own limit

Tip

The impact of count mode varies by discount type. See the documentation for the specific type for details.

Caution

“Any” attribute variations and Per variant mode

When a variable product has variations defined with attribute value set to “Any …” (e.g., a single variation that covers “Any size”), all cart items added from that variation share the same internal variation ID — only their cart_item_data differs. In Per variant mode this means that all such cart items are counted together as one variant, effectively behaving like Per parent product for those items.

Workaround: if you need each attribute value (each size, color, …) to be counted separately, define explicit variations for every attribute combination instead of using “Any …”.