Theme limitation's

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user is experiencing a limitation with the “Honey” Shopify theme where automatic discounts applied to a collection only appear after products are added to the cart, leaving customers unaware of the discount beforehand.

Desired outcome:

  • Display a “10% OFF” tag on product cards
  • Show original price struck through with new discounted price highlighted
  • Make discount visible before adding items to cart

Proposed solutions:

  1. Manual tagging approach: Add discount tags to products and modify theme code to display “10% off” labels when specific tags are detected.

  2. Compare-at price method: Use Shopify’s built-in compare-at price field instead of checkout discounts. This can be set manually in the admin panel for few products, or automated using bulk discount apps for larger catalogs.

  3. Price lists feature: Utilize apps that support “Price lists” functionality, which automatically displays final discounted prices (inclusive of automatic discounts) across product pages, collection pages, and product suggestions.

The theme developer confirmed that template modifications are required. The discussion remains open with multiple viable approaches suggested.

Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello I have recently discovered a limitation on the theme that I am using which happen’s to be “Honey”.

The issue is that once I make an automatic discount on a specific collection, the discount isn’t visible until the product’s have been added to the cart, keeping the customer clueless about the discount until they open the cart.

If any one know’s a solution to this and want’s to share it, I will be very thankful.

I have already contacted the developer and customer support and have been told that I have to modify the theme template’s.

I want once the discount has been applied to show case each product card with 10% OFF Tag and the previous price stretched over and the new price highlighted.

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@SimeonM - you can add the discount and tag to the products which have discount. So if product contains tag say ‘discount’ we can put label saying 10% off by editing the code. This way it will be visible even if product is not added to cart.

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I would appreciate that, thank you!

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Hi @SimeonM , JIC, I’d also mention that instead of applying discounts at checkout, you can use the compare-at price field. This option does have some limitations, however, it’s actually what Shopify recommends for displaying prices on product pages.

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If you’re only discounting a few products, you can manually set compare-at prices in the admin panel. But if you’re dealing with a larger number of products, using an app like Alpha Sale can help avoid human error and save time.

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@SimeonM , this is an interesting use case and we actually solve for this on our app with a feature called “Price lists”.

In essence, it enables you to setup an automatic discount and show the final product price (inclusive) of the discount on the product page, collection pages, and suggestions.

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Here’s a link to our app

https://apps.shopify.com/dollar-discounts

Most of our merchants use this feature in combination with B2B specific use cases to set different price points for different customers for example. But the core concept stays the same :slightly_smiling_face: