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Shopify spend and save tiered discount.
Capped at $100 per order.

A Shopify spend and save tiered discount is the cleanest AOV lever in DTC. The risk is the cart that blows past the top tier — without a cap, a $3,000 order at 15% costs you $450. Nex Discount caps the Shopify spend and save tiered discount at $100, so the ladder drives upsell without burning the promo budget on outliers.

The setup
Discount type
Order discount + cap
Tier 1
Cart total ≥ $200 → 10%
Tier 2
Cart total ≥ $500 → 15%
Cap
$100
Trigger
Automatic at checkout
Stacking
Cannot combine with code discounts
The saved margin
SCENARIO_18
$100
max per order across the entire spend ladder.
Cart Without cap With Nex
$180 no tier no discount
$280 −$28 −$28
$700 −$105 −$100 Capped
$2,500 −$375 −$100 Capped
Watch a cart fill
Threshold
CART_SIM
your-store.myshopify.com/cart
Items
    Subtotal $0
    Code
    Discount −$0
    Total $0
    Without a cap
    at risk
    −$0 (20% × subtotal)
    With Nex · cap $100
    −$0
    Margin protected
    $0
    Live simulation · resets every 10s
    Across many carts
    Live cart simulation
    SCENARIO_18
    CAP
    −$0
    Without
    −$0
    With Nex
    Cart value
    $0
    Margin protected this cart
    $0
    Across simulation
    $280 total saved
    01

    Why a Shopify spend and save tiered discount works best with two tiers, not five

    Customers don't read five-row tables at checkout — they scan for one number. A Shopify spend and save tiered discount with two tiers ($200 / $500) keeps the message on a single line and gives the second tier real psychological lift. Stack more rungs into the Shopify spend and save tiered discount and you add decision friction instead of AOV — conversion drops, and the upsell stops working.

    02

    A Shopify spend and save tiered discount needs a cap, not a bigger headline number

    The storefront sells the percentage; a Shopify spend and save tiered discount sells the cap behind the scenes. On the PDP you advertise `Spend $500 save 15%`. The cap lives in the rule and only activates on the long-tail carts that would otherwise distort the campaign's economics. Most customers never see the cap on a Shopify spend and save tiered discount — by design — but finance sees it every time a $2,500 cart closes at $100 off instead of $375 off.

    03

    Ship a Shopify spend and save tiered discount on Nex's cart-total conditions

    Build the Shopify spend and save tiered discount directly on shipped Nex Discount primitives: two rules with `cart total amount` thresholds plus an order discount with a cap. The higher-tier rule wins via match priority, so a $550 cart gets 15% and a $280 cart gets 10% — no custom Shopify Functions code, no webhooks, and the entire Shopify spend and save tiered discount lives inside a single native discount configuration.

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