How to apply check out discount on the original price but not the discounted price?

Topic summary

A merchant wants to display a 20% discount using the “compare at price” feature (showing strikethrough pricing) while also applying a separate 20% launch discount at checkout—but only to the original price, not the already-discounted price.

Core Issue:
Shopify’s checkout always uses the product’s actual selling price, not the compare-at price. When an automatic discount is applied at checkout, it calculates from the current price (already reduced if compare-at pricing is used), effectively stacking discounts unintentionally.

Proposed Solutions:

  • Discounty app: Offers configuration to apply discounts based on original pricing with tutorial videos for setup
  • Yagi Automatic Discount Helper: Uses metafields and app blocks to display discounted prices on product/collection pages without impacting site speed
  • Alpha Sale app: Provides a “largest discount applies” setting, preventing discount stacking by comparing sale price vs. coupon discount and applying whichever is greater

Key Limitation:
Due to Shopify’s checkout architecture, there’s no native way to pass compare-at prices to checkout or prevent automatic discounts from calculating against already-reduced prices. The exact setup requested (showing strikethrough everywhere while discounting only original prices at checkout) isn’t technically feasible without workarounds.

Summarized with AI on October 30. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

HI @Discounty-Marry

Thanks for the reply… You have understood my issue correctly…

But as you have mentioned, where can I find the tutorial videos? Could you please share any link?.

Best Regards