How do I set up quantity breaks in Shopify for Black Friday?

Set up quantity breaks in Shopify, step by step

Shopify's Minimum requirements section takes one value per discount: a Minimum quantity of items or a Minimum purchase amount (Shopify help, checked November 6, 2026). So you build one automatic discount per step. The example is buy 2 save 10%, buy 3 save 15%, buy 5 save 20% on a Candles collection.

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Discounts, click Create discount, and choose Amount off products.
2. Under Method, choose Automatic discount and title it Candles 2+ 10%.
3. Set Percentage to 10, and under Applies to choose Specific collections, Candles.
4. Under Minimum requirements, choose Minimum quantity of items and enter 2.
5. Under Combinations, leave other product discounts unchecked, so the steps never add up.
6. Under Active dates, start November 27 and end December 1, then click Save.
7. Repeat for 3 items at 15% and 5 items at 20%.
8. Test carts of 2, 3 and 5 candles at checkout.

When several discounts apply but can't combine, Shopify always applies the best one for the cart (Shopify help). A cart of 5 candles gets 20%, not 10% + 15% + 20%.

Spend more, save more in Shopify

Use the same pattern with Amount off orders and Minimum purchase amount: for example $10 off orders over $100, $25 off over $200, $60 off over $400, as three automatic discounts.

• Keep them from combining. If two percentage order discounts combine, Shopify takes both percentages off the original subtotal, so 10% and 20% become 30% off (Shopify help).
• What counts toward the amount. Product prices only, never shipping or tax. An order discount checks the minimum both before and after product discounts (Shopify help).
• The slot cost. A store can have at most 25 active automatic discounts, app discounts included (Shopify help). Two 3-step ladders use 6.

What Shopify does on its own

Each item links the Shopify page it comes from (checked November 6, 2026).

B2B quantity price breaks

For wholesale buyers, Shopify B2B sets prices per quantity in a catalog. The path is Markets > Catalogs, pick the catalog, Manage > Manage products and pricing, then + Add in the Volume pricing column and Add break (Shopify help). Buyers must reach each quantity per variant. On Basic, Grow and Advanced you can have up to 3 active catalog assignments (Shopify help). These breaks are for B2B orders, not regular shoppers.

Set up quantity breaks with Discount Genie

Discount Genie is a Shopify discount app by Shopstack. Its Volume discount holds every break in one discount (volume docs):

1. In Discount Genie, go to Discounts and, under Create discounts like a Genie, pick Volume discount.
2. Choose a discount code or an automatic discount.
3. In Set your volume breaks, choose Percentage, then enter Starts (units in cart) 2 and Customer gets 10.
4. Click Add break for 3 units at 15 and 5 units at 20. Start each break one unit after the last ends.
5. In Choose targeted products, pick the Candles collection, then save.

For spend more, save more, use the Tiered order discount: add one tier per Cart subtotal value, then Add tier (tiered order docs). Thresholds are "greater than", so for a tier that starts at $100, enter 99.99.

Discount Genie discounts apply in the cart and at checkout; the product page price doesn't change. To show the breaks, add the Volume Table, Volume Break Widget or Tiers Table block in the theme editor (show it on your store). Paid plans include all 11 discount types, $0.99/mo for 3 months. The basic free plan covers up to 3 basic discounts.

Shopify vs Discount Genie for quantity breaks

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• Volume, quantity and tiered discounts on Shopify
• Set up a BOGO (buy X get Y) discount in Shopify
• Combine and stack discounts on Shopify
• Black Friday 2026 discount checklist for Shopify
• Volume discounts (Discount Genie docs)
• Tiered order discounts (Discount Genie docs)