What are quantity breaks?
Quantity breaks are price tiers that lower the per-unit price as a shopper buys more of the same product. Buy two, pay less per item. Buy four, pay even less. Stores show the tiers on the product page as a small table, nudging shoppers toward bigger orders.
How do quantity breaks work?
Say you sell candles at $24. You set two breaks: two or more at $21 each, four or more at $18 each. A shopper who came for one candle reads the table and takes two for $42. You gave up $6 of contribution margin to gain $18 of order. A gift shopper takes four for $72, three times what a single candle would have brought. If a candle costs you $15, the $24 price is a 60% markup on cost, $21 is 40% and $18 is 20%.
Keep the first tier easy to reach, one step above what shoppers already buy. Save the deepest price for the quantity that clears stock. A tier added only to make the next one look like the deal is a decoy. Skip the table on a product you sell on prestige pricing, where one held price is the point.
On Shopify stores
On a Shopify store, quantity breaks usually appear as a tier table or quantity picker on the product page, right under the price. The promise has to hold at checkout: two candles in the cart must ring up at $21 each, with no code to type. Shopify's built-in discounts don't draw that table on the product page, so stores add an app that displays the tiers and syncs the pricing to real Shopify discounts.
Quantity breaks with Sledge
Quantity breaks are one of nine offer types in Sledge Bundles, and they sell where shoppers decide: instant search, search results, collections, product pages, and the cart. And built-in Growth Intelligence reads your store's own order patterns, suggests the next bundle worth creating, estimates its monthly impact in dollars, then measures the result against real sales.
