You priced it so buying four is the obvious move. Native Shopify shows one price and no break, so the shopper takes one and never learns that more was cheaper. Your average order sits flat.
Buy more, save more. Right on the product page.
Volume pricing only works if the shopper sees the ladder. Sledge sets your quantity breaks once, and the per-unit price steps down as the cart fills. The whole tier table shows on the product page, not buried at checkout. You get a bigger order, and they get a visible win.
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// The single-threshold wall
Shopify gives you one discount at one quantity. Volume pricing is a ladder.
Buy-more-save-more needs more than one price. You take a little off at two, more at three, the most at four. Native Shopify discounts take one minimum and one amount, so you get one break where you wanted three. Build the next tier by hand and you are managing separate codes. Those codes collide at checkout.
The break you do set surfaces only in the cart. A shopper reading the product page sees one price and no reason to add a second. Your volume pricing never reaches the person deciding how many to buy.
Sledge runs the whole ladder from one rule, on any product or collection you pick. Set your quantity breaks at 2 for 10% off, 3 for 15%, 4 for 20%, and the per-unit price steps down as the quantity climbs. You choose whether the break applies per unit or per order. That one rule syncs to a Shopify discount, so the same price holds at checkout and combines with your other discounts where Shopify's rules allow.
// Shown where they decide
The shopper sees the deal before they add, not after.
A discount that only appears at checkout is one most shoppers never factor in. By the time the tiers show up, they have already chosen how many to buy. The offer arrives after the decision.
Sledge puts the live price table right on the product page, every tier listed with the current break highlighted. The next tier shows what the saving is worth. A tier can read "Buy 3, save 15%, $124.95 instead of $147." The per-unit price drops in front of the shopper as they bump the quantity. Adding one more reads as winning instead of spending. The same table runs on collection pages too.
// Schedule it, draft it, test it
Is the break better at 2 units or 4? Don't guess. Test.
Set the tier too shallow and you hand margin to orders that were coming anyway. Set it too steep and nobody climbs. The wrong ladder costs you money on every order. A hunch won't tell you which one wins.
Sledge A/B-tests the price table and schedules its run dates. Half your shoppers see one ladder and half see another, divided evenly by session. The ladder with the higher average order is the one you keep. Schedule a seasonal break to switch on and off on its own, draft the next while this one runs, and read what each tier made. Nothing here stays a guess.
Questions, answered
How do I add volume discounts or quantity breaks to Shopify?
Sledge runs volume discounts as tiered quantity breaks. Set the tiers once, like 2 for 10% off and 4 for 20% off, and the per-unit price steps down as the quantity climbs, on any product or collection, with no code.
Can I show a tiered price table on the Shopify product page?
With Sledge, yes. Sledge renders the live volume-discount price table on the product page, every tier listed with the current break highlighted, so shoppers see the saving before they add to cart instead of only at checkout.
Do I need a separate Shopify discount for every volume tier?
One Sledge rule holds every tier. A native automatic discount takes one minimum and one amount, so a three-rung ladder means three separate discounts, and Shopify caps a store at 25 active automatic discounts with app-based ones counted in. In Sledge one volume rule holds the whole tier ladder and applies to every product or collection you point it at.
Can volume discounts stack with my other Shopify discounts?
In Sledge, yes, within Shopify's stacking rules. Combining two product discounts on the same item is Shopify Plus only natively. Sledge runs volume breaks through its own engine with discount auto-sync, so they combine with your other discounts where Shopify's rules allow and apply consistently at checkout.
Is volume discount a separate app from my other bundles?
No, it is built into Sledge. Volume discount is one of nine offer types on the same plan, so the tier ladder reports next to your other offers.
Is volume discount an extra charge?
No, volume discounts are included in the Sledge plan. Development stores are free, and every plan has a 14-day free trial.
Stop selling one when they'd have bought four.
Install free. Set your first quantity break today and show the ladder on the product page. The falling per-unit price makes the bigger order the obvious one.
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