GraphQL Pull Entitled Discounts

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user encountered an issue querying order discount information via GraphQL where coupon titles and descriptions were missing for discounts with allocationMethod: ACROSS and targetSelection: ENTITLED, despite appearing correctly in REST API responses.

Problem Details:

  • GraphQL query returned title/description for EXPLICIT allocation method but not for ACROSS
  • REST API consistently returned all discount metadata including title
  • The discount type was automatic with 55% percentage value

Resolution:
The issue was resolved by adding the missing AutomaticDiscountApplication fragment to the GraphQL query. The user’s original query included fragments for DiscountCodeApplication, ManualDiscountApplication, and ScriptDiscountApplication, but omitted AutomaticDiscountApplication.

Key Takeaway:
Each discount type in GraphQL has a specific __typename that requires its corresponding fragment in the query. For automatic discounts, the AutomaticDiscountApplication fragment must be explicitly included to retrieve all fields like title and description.

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I am querying orders. I want to see what coupon code was used.

When the coupon allocationMethod is EXPLICIT, I see a title and a description. When the allocation method is ACROSS, I see no title and description.

When I use REST, the title and description is populated on all orders. This is a graph QL issue only.

Here is the discount in REST:

{"target_type":"line_item","type":"automatic","value":"55.0","value_type":"percentage","allocation_method":"across","target_selection":"entitled","title":"EMPLOYEE

Here is my query:

discountApplications(first: 100) {
  edges {
    node {
      value {
        ... on MoneyV2 {
          __typename
          amount
          currencyCode
        }
        ... on PricingPercentageValue {
          __typename
          percentage
        }
      }
      allocationMethod
      index
      targetSelection
      targetType
      ... on DiscountCodeApplication {
        __typename
        code
        allocationMethod
        index
        targetSelection
        targetType
        value {
          ... on MoneyV2 {
            __typename
            amount
            currencyCode
          }
          ... on PricingPercentageValue {
            __typename
            percentage
          }
        }
      }
      ... on ManualDiscountApplication {
        description
        value {
          ... on MoneyV2 {
            __typename
            currencyCode
            amount
          }
          ... on PricingPercentageValue {
            __typename
            percentage
          }
        }
        allocationMethod
        index
        targetSelection
        targetType
        title
      }
      ... on ScriptDiscountApplication {
        __typename
        allocationMethod
        description
        targetSelection
        index
        targetType
        value {
          ... on MoneyV2 {
            __typename
            currencyCode
            amount
          }
          ... on PricingPercentageValue {
            __typename
            percentage
          }
        }
        title
      }
    }
  }
}

Here is the result:

{
                "node": {
                  "value": {
                    "__typename": "PricingPercentageValue",
                    "percentage": 55.0
                  },
                  "allocationMethod": "ACROSS",
                  "index": 1,
                  "targetSelection": "EXPLICIT",
                  "targetType": "LINE_ITEM",
                  "description": "EMPLOY33S",
                  "title": "EMPLOY33S"
                }
              },
              {
                "node": {
                  "value": {
                    "__typename": "PricingPercentageValue",
                    "percentage": 55.0
                  },
                  "allocationMethod": "ACROSS",
                  "index": 2,
                  "targetSelection": "ENTITLED",
                  "targetType": "LINE_ITEM"
                }
              },
2

I was missing:

… on AutomaticDiscountApplication {
__typename
allocationMethod
index
targetSelection
targetType
title
value
}

Each discount has an __typename. It it’s AutomaticDiscountApplication, then add the AutomaticDiscountApplication