Quikly Discounts in Shopify

Quikly offers run on Shopify’s own discount system. Each tier in your campaign becomes its own standard Shopify discount code, which Quikly creates and keeps up to date from your campaign’s settings. You’ll see these discounts in your Shopify admin under Discounts, alongside every other discount in your store, and their orders show up in Shopify’s sales-by-discount reports.

You don’t need to build anything in Shopify. Set up the offer in Quikly, and Quikly handles the discount.

Make every change in Quikly

You can view Quikly discounts in Shopify, but don’t edit them there. Quikly overwrites Shopify edits the next time the campaign is updated, and until then the campaign and checkout can disagree. See Editing a Quikly discount in Shopify.

Each Tier Is Its Own Discount

A campaign with three tiers creates three discount codes in Shopify, one per tier. For example, a campaign offering $20, $15 and $10 off appears in the Discounts list as three separate discounts:

Recognizing a Quikly Discount

Discount titles come from the offer title, not the campaign name, so offers from different campaigns can look alike. Two ways to tell a discount came from Quikly, whatever its code is named:

• In the Discounts list, hover over a discount to see a small Quikly icon.

• On the discount page, the code section reads “created by Quikly App.”

The Discounts List

Column	What it shows for a Quikly offer
Title	The offer title, e.g. “$20 off your order”
Status	Active, Scheduled or Expired, based on the campaign’s timing
Method	”1 code”: a code the shopper enters, not an automatic discount
Eligibility	All customers (see Eligibility and Audience Targeting)
Type	Amount off order, Amount off product, Buy X get Y, or Free shipping
Combinations	Icons for product, order and shipping discounts. A dimmed icon means the offer won’t combine with that type.
Used	How many orders used the code

How Each Setting Maps to Shopify

In Quikly	In Shopify	Notes
Type: Fixed amount or Percentage	Discount value: Fixed amount or Percentage
Type: Free shipping	Discount type: Free shipping
Discount value	Discount value amount or %
Discount applies to	Applies to	All products, or specific products or collections
Require minimum purchase	Minimum purchase requirements
Apply discount to each item (checked)	Only apply discount once per order (unchecked)	Same setting, opposite wording
Purchase type	Purchase type	One-time, subscription, or both
Recurring payments for subscriptions	Recurring payments for subscriptions	Same three options in both
Require specific product(s) in cart	Discount type changes to Buy X get Y	The only setting that changes the discount type
Combinations	Combinations	See Combining Offers with Other Discounts
Quantity	Maximum discount uses	Quantity + 5. See Usage limits.
Discount code	Code (read-only)	Must be new to the store
Offer title	Discount title
Short title, subtitle, destination URL, terms and conditions	Not sent	Shown only in the campaign, if its design includes them
Campaign start and end	Schedule	See Timing
Audience Targeting	Not sent	Eligibility is always All customers

For details on each Quikly setting, see Configuring Offers.

Shopify’s discount page also sums up every setting in plain language in its sidebar:

Usage Limits

A tier’s quantity appears in Shopify as Maximum discount uses, plus a buffer of 5. A tier with a quantity of 50 shows a limit of 55 uses:

The buffer is there because Shopify’s count and Quikly’s count can drift slightly. Quikly enforces the real limit of 50, and the limit and the campaign’s count hold even if the code is used outside the campaign.

Note

Campaigns created with the new-campaign builder show no usage limit in Shopify until an offer is saved on the Offers tab.

Eligibility and Audience Targeting

Every Quikly discount shows Eligibility: All customers in Shopify.

That’s expected. Quikly controls who sees the campaign through its visibility settings (activation links, URL rules, visibility percentage, visitor limits, countries and more), and those settings stay in Quikly. Shopify’s Eligibility controls who can redeem the code at checkout, and Quikly always leaves it open to all customers.

See Campaign Visibility Controls for how to target a campaign.

Timing

The campaign’s start and end set the discount’s schedule in Shopify. Two settings in Edit Timing shift that schedule:

In Quikly	In Shopify
Campaign start	Schedule start
Activate discount codes before campaign launches	Schedule starts when the timing is saved
Campaign end: specific date	Schedule end
Campaign end: when all offers are claimed	No end date
Discount code grace period	Added to the schedule end

For example, a campaign running Oct 28 from 10:00 AM to 11:59 PM, saved on Oct 27 at 11:03 AM with early activation on and a 30-minute grace period, has this schedule in Shopify:

See Test Offer Codes Before Launch for both settings.

When Campaigns and Tiers Change

In Quikly	In Shopify
The campaign ends or reaches its end date (even if it was never published)	The discount shows Expired
A tier is deleted	The discount is removed
A tier’s code is changed	The new code replaces the old one, and the old code stops working

Editing a Quikly Discount in Shopify

Shopify doesn’t notify Quikly when a discount is edited in Shopify. A Shopify edit stays in effect until the campaign is next updated in Quikly, and then Quikly’s settings overwrite it without warning.

These count as a Quikly update:

• Saving an offer on the Offers tab
• Changing Edit Timing (this resends every offer)
• Changing a quantity on a live campaign

Publishing doesn’t count. A live campaign that isn’t updated keeps the Shopify edit, which leaves it out of step with what the campaign shows.

If you change this in Shopify	What happens
Type (e.g. amount off to percentage off)	The campaign says “$20 off,” but checkout applies the percentage.
Discount value	The campaign and checkout show different amounts.
Combinations	Applies until the next Quikly update, then reverts.
Eligibility (e.g. a customer segment)	Enforced at checkout, so shoppers your campaign targets can be rejected. Resets to All customers on the next Quikly update.
Minimum purchase	Applies until the next Quikly update, then reverts.
Start or end date	Replaced by the campaign’s dates on the next Quikly update.
Deactivate	The campaign shows a code that checkout rejects.
Delete	The campaign shows a code that no longer exists, and deleting that tier in Quikly may then fail.
Title	Harmless. It’s only shown in the admin, and resets on the next Quikly update.

The discount code itself is read-only in Shopify. To change it, edit the tier in Quikly.

Check Whether an Edit Was Overwritten

Scroll to Timeline at the bottom of the discount page in Shopify:

• “You edited this discount” is a change made in Shopify.
• “Quikly edited this discount” is an update from Quikly.

A Shopify edit followed by a Quikly edit means the Shopify change was overwritten.

Related Tutorials

• Configuring Offers — Every offer setting in Quikly
• Combining Offers with Other Discounts — Stacking and affiliate codes
• Test Offer Codes Before Launch — Early activation and the grace period
• Campaign Visibility Controls — Control who sees the campaign
• Identifying Quikly Orders — How Quikly attributes orders to a campaign