Exclude a product from a discount code on Shopify

What Shopify does on its own

Shopify lets you choose which products a code applies to. It has no field that lists products a code must skip. Each item below links the Shopify page it comes from (checked 2026-10-31).

Exclude products from a product code

You don't tell the code what to skip. You give it a collection that already leaves those products out. Shopify's collection editor has an Exclude option for this. The admin steps below are for desktop.

1. From your Shopify admin (desktop), go to Products > Collections and click Add collection. Name it, for example Discount eligible.
2. In the Products source, click Add condition and add a condition that every product you sell matches, for example Price is greater than 0. A product whose variants are all free fails that condition, so it stays out.
3. In the same Products source, click Exclude. Then either click Add products (desktop) and pick the products to skip, or open the Products drop-down, choose Collection, and pick a collection of products to skip. One source can't do both. Shopify allows "a maximum of 5 collections that exclude another collection" per store.
4. Click Save.
5. Create or edit the code. Under Select discount type, choose Amount off products. In Applies to, choose Specific collections and pick Discount eligible.
6. Save, then test a cart with an excluded product and the code.

Gift card products priced above $0 also match Price is greater than 0, so they join Discount eligible. If you don't want gift cards discounted, add them to the Exclude list too.

Exclusions always win over inclusions, so an excluded product stays out even when it matches your condition (Shopify help).

Tag method. To manage it from each product page, add a tag such as no-discount to the products to skip. Then build the collection with a tag condition set to does not include that tag (Shopify help). If the same source also has the Price is greater than 0 condition, select Match all conditions so a product must match both (Shopify help). New products join the collection unless you tag them.

Minimum purchase. Only the products a code applies to count toward its minimum purchase amount (Shopify help). If Discount eligible leaves out a $60 product, that $60 doesn't help a shopper reach a $50 minimum.

Why order codes can't exclude products

An Amount off orders code has no Applies to section in Shopify's discount steps, so you can't point it at a collection (help center, 2026-10; Shopify help). You have three ways around it:

• Switch to a product code. Make it an Amount off products code on your Discount eligible collection.
• Use a discount Function. A Function can list cart lines to leave out of an order discount's subtotal (shopify.dev). Stores not on Plus run Functions through a public app (shopify.dev).
• Use an app that builds that Function for you, such as Discount Genie (next section).

Exclude products from an order code with Discount Genie

Discount Genie's Amount off order discount has a Set product exclusions section. It runs on Shopify Functions for discounts, no code. It works for a discount code and for an automatic discount. Product exclusions are on the Core plan and up, not on Free or Starter.

1. In Discount Genie, create an Amount off order discount.
2. Under Method, choose Discount code and type the code.
3. Set the discount value and any cart or customer conditions.
4. Under Additional settings, open Set product exclusions, choose Exclude products, then Add exclusion.
5. Under Exclude by, choose Collection and pick the collection of products to skip, for example No discount.
6. Save, then test a cart with a product from that collection and the code.

Discount Genie tells Shopify to leave the excluded lines out of the order subtotal, so the code's amount comes off the rest.

Cart conditions. By default, excluded products don't count toward the discount's cart conditions, such as a minimum amount. Tick Excluded products count towards cart qualifiers to count them.

What it doesn't do. The exclusion lives on the Discount Genie discount. It doesn't change codes you made in Shopify or in other apps. To reject other codes when a product is in the cart, see block and limit discount codes.

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