My company is called Marilyn’s Gift (www.marilyns.gift). We are trying to increase sales by offering a special deal where if people subscribe to a new subscription (we use ReCharge) they will receive a small gift box for themselves for the cost of shipping. I would love help trying to figure out to set this up on our store. We use the Debut theme at this time.
Thanks in advance for any help people can offer.
Cheryl
Hello Cheryl,
It sounds like you would like to automate the flow that people subscribe to a new subscription, you will send out a gift box after they paid for the shipping fee?
Hi.
Actually, we are interested in having them sign up for a quarterly subscription which we offer for $44.99 per quarter that they would send to a loved one. In return for signing up, we will send the purchaser a gift box for the cost of shipping.
If the subscription shipping is free but the gifts shipping is not see this recharge FAQ:
https://support.rechargepayments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023047374-Shipping-FAQ#h_ec3dfca8-1cf4-48fd-a1f3-a401feab579c (it uses a 0 weight hack)
And recharges workflow on it’s custom shipping rate service
If you haven’t already with anything like this where a platform/service has already been preselected you want to reach out to that platform/services support.
Would customers be fans of free things that actually end up having a cost?
If you do this you’ll want to a/b test for checkout abandonment.
If on shopify Plus use checkout-scripts for shipping.
If on advanced or lower plans the fast solution is to have the gift be heavily discounted behaving as an upsell, or through an upsell app. Not discounted lower than the shipping cost to leave future flexibility in a full complex setup to try the free for cost of shipping offer.
This can be done in tandem with a frontend customization so the gift price does appear as $0 inside the /cart though the actual price will be reflected in checkout.
Or the shipping fee is tacked onto the cost of either the first months subscription or baked into the monthly subscription price.
This can drastically simplifythe setup required instead of the force multiplier of systems: free item + free item shipping + subscriptions + subscriptions shipping.
Beyond that It can help to reword such things into the possibly separate pieces then research and attack each requirement separately:
Need to add a free gift to the users cart, checkout, or order.
Need to make a gift free with discount based on a condition.
Need to charge shipping for the free gift.
Need to combine a shipping rate for the gift item with the shipping rates for subscription items.
etc.
Hi there,
I believe the best way for you to achieve this would be by using our Seal Subscriptions app (https://apps.shopify.com/seal-subscriptions), along with another app named CartBot : Auto add to cart (https://apps.shopify.com/cartbot-auto-add-to-cart), which we have an integration with.
The CartBot app allows you to add a product or a group of products to a customer’s cart, if they have a specific product or group of products in their cart. You can also configure the Bots to trigger if the required product in the cart has to be a subscription OR you can add subscription products to the cart instead.
Paul Newton, thanks so much for your reply. I am trying to look at your answer and see the best way to make it happen. Thanks.
SealSubs, thanks so much for your response. I appreciate your feedback.