How can I allow multiple discounts at checkout?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Merchants are unable to combine multiple discounts at checkout—for example, an automatic 10% off promotion alongside a manual discount code. Shopify’s platform historically allowed only one discount per order, with no native setting to enable stacking.

Shopify’s Response:

  • Support staff repeatedly added merchant votes to an internal feature request but provided no timeline for implementation.
  • Workarounds suggested included gift cards, partial refunds, draft orders, or third-party apps—though many merchants reported apps either didn’t work, conflicted with other tools, or added unwanted costs and complexity.
  • Shopify Plus users could access checkout scripts for custom discount logic, but this wasn’t available on standard plans.

Community Frustration:

  • Requests for this feature date back to at least 2012, spanning over a decade with no resolution.
  • Merchants expressed frustration that the thread was marked “solved” despite the issue remaining unresolved.
  • Many felt Shopify was incentivizing paid apps rather than building native functionality, viewing this as a revenue strategy rather than a technical limitation.

Resolution (June 2022):

  • Shopify finally announced Discount Combinations, allowing merchants to stack discount codes (manual or automatic) and run multiple automatic discounts simultaneously.
  • The feature rolled out to all eligible merchants, ending years of requests and workarounds.
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You’re telling me Shopify can’t do in 8 years what this app has achieved? Come on..

“Can’t do” it’s not a reverse psychology challenge, a platform with over a million merchants has to priortize for everyone not just what some think is important and fixate on, with the biggest example being order editing which took almost a decade as big features are want to and “everyone” thought that was important for just as long.