Free Shipping and Discounts for Monthly Charge

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Topic summary

A merchant seeks to automatically provide free shipping and discounts to customers paying a monthly subscription fee, similar to Amazon Prime.

Proposed Solution:

  • Use Regios Automatic Discounts app to apply shipping discounts automatically to tagged customers
  • The app can target specific customer segments based on tags or metafields

Implementation Requirements:

  • Combine the discounts app with a subscription management tool (like Shopify’s official Subscriptions app)
  • The subscription app must either integrate with Shopify Flow or provide its own method to automatically add/remove customer tags based on subscription status
  • When customers subscribe, they get tagged as “subscriber” and receive automatic discounts
  • When subscriptions lapse, tags are removed and discounts no longer apply

Current Limitation:
Regios Automatic Discounts handles only the discount logic, not subscription billing—requiring integration with a separate subscription management solution to achieve the complete workflow.

Summarized with AI on November 9. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello,

We are looking for the ability to extend free shipping and discounts automatically to customers who pay a monthly charge, a bit similar to Amazon Prime. Apologies if this has been answered previously – let me know if this is possible.

Best,

Jonathan

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Hi Hill_jonathan,

Thanks for asking this question.

It sounds like you’re looking for:

  • A automatic shipping discount
  • For specific customers and no one else

If your subscribers have a special tag or metafield, then I recommend our app, https://apps.shopify.com/regios-automatic-discounts (Built for Shopify).

Here’s a screenshot of how to set up a free shipping discount for customers with a specific tag:

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If you have any questions about it, just reply.

Best,

Tobe

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Thank you Tobe! This solves the automatic discount part of the equation, but ideally we would like Shopify to handle the monthly/yearly payment part as well – so (I’d imagine) customers could go to a page on our website and pay for a subscription; this would automatically tag them as “subscriber” so the automatic discount would apply; they would (with their consent) be charged each month, and when the subscription lapsed they would be untagged so that the discount would no longer apply. Does this make sense?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Hi Hill_jonathan,

Thanks for your update.

Unfortunately, our app cannot handle the subscription logic, as we are focused on being a discounts app.

I would recommend combining a subscriptions app, like Shopify’s official Subscriptions app, with ours.

Whichever subscription app you use, it needs to either integrate with Shopify Flow (so that you can automatically add/remove a tag when subscription is started/lapsed), or provide its own way to toggle a tag/metafield on a customer account based on subscription status.

As long as you have a way to keep a customer’s tag in sync with their subscription status, then you’ll be able to accurately give them automatic discounts in our app.

Best,

Tobe