WDOnline Quantity Discounts

WDOnline Quantity Discounts for WooCommerce lets you offer lower unit prices when customers buy a specified quantity. You can create fixed unit prices or percentage discounts for individual products and variations, and percentage rules for entire product categories. The applicable price is calculated automatically in the cart and checkout.

Requirements and installation

The plugin requires an active WooCommerce installation. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the plugin ZIP file, install it, and activate it. The settings page then appears under WD Online → WDOnline Quantity Discounts for WooCommerce.

To try it quickly, edit a simple product with a regular price, add a quantity tier in Product data → General, update the product, and add enough units to your cart to reach the tier. Check the product page and cart to confirm the display and price.

Create discounts for a simple product

1. Go to Products → All Products and edit the product.
2. In Product data → General, find Quantity discounts near the price fields.
3. Use the visual tier builder to add a From quantity, choose Fixed unit price or Percentage discount, and enter a value. Add more rows for additional thresholds.
4. Update the product and test the quantities on its storefront page.

For fixed prices, you can also enter rules directly in the quantity-discount field, one per line:

3|8
5|7
10|6.5

With a store currency of your choice, this example sets the unit price to 8 from three units, 7 from five units, and 6.5 from ten units. The quantity is a minimum threshold, and the price applies per unit to the eligible cart line, rather than only to units above the threshold. A quantity below the first threshold uses the normal WooCommerce price. Quantities must be whole numbers of at least 2, with tiers in ascending order. A fixed tier price must be greater than zero and cannot increase from one tier to the next or exceed the selected comparison price.

Percentage tiers use the product’s comparison price and recalculate when that price changes. For example, with a comparison price of 20 and a 10% tier at three units, the tier’s unit price is 18. A product needs a valid comparison price for percentage tiers.

Calculate prices from percentages is available when you want to enter quantity and percentage pairs such as 3|10 and 5|15, then generate fixed prices from the current comparison price. Use a percentage tier in the visual builder instead if the discounted amount should change automatically when the product price changes.

Schedule a product discount

Set Discount start date and/or Discount end date in the product’s pricing area to limit when its direct rules apply. Leave either date empty for an open-ended period. The date check uses your WordPress site’s time zone. The end date cannot be earlier than the start date.

Set discounts for variations

For a variable product, open Product data → Variations and expand the variation you want to edit. Each variation has its own Variation quantity discounts tiers and optional start and end dates. Save the variation and update the parent product. Repeat for other variations as needed.

The storefront tier display updates when a customer selects a variation. Each variation uses its own direct rules. If it has no direct rules, a matching category rule can apply; it does not inherit the parent product’s direct tiers. Check the regular or sale price of each variation before creating percentage tiers.

Create category percentage discounts

Open WD Online → WDOnline Quantity Discounts for WooCommerce → Category percentage discount.

1. Select a Product category and choose whether to Include subcategories.
2. Add one or more Discount tiers, each with a minimum quantity and percentage.
3. Optionally set Rule priority if you plan to use manual priority for overlapping category rules. Higher numbers win.
4. Choose Overlapping category rules: highest discount, lowest discount, most specific category, or manual priority.
5. Click Create category rule.

The Created category discount rules table lets you edit or remove saved rules. Category percentages recalculate from the product’s current comparison price when its price changes. A direct rule on a product or variation takes precedence over a category rule. The overlap setting governs cases where more than one category rule matches; it does not override a direct product or variation rule.

Control the storefront display and price comparison

The plugin’s settings page has four tabs: Text settings, Frontend styling, CSV import and export, and Category percentage discount. Display and pricing controls are on Frontend styling.

• Show on product pages: Enable or disable the tier box on product pages.
• Product page position: Place the box before or after the price, after the short description, before or after Add to cart, or choose Manual shortcode or block only.
• Discount layout: Display tiers as a list or table.
• Savings comparison price: Use the regular price, active sale price, or the lowest of those prices. This setting affects percentage calculations and the savings comparison. When Active sale price is selected and no sale is active, the plugin uses the regular price.
• Savings: Show or hide the percentage saved for each tier in the product-page box.
• Show on shop/category pages: Enable or disable the short discount message on product listings. This switch is in Text settings.

A tier box shows when an applicable rule exists. Product and variation discounts continue to affect cart pricing even if you choose to hide a storefront notice or box.

Use a shortcode or block

Select Manual shortcode or block only for Product page position when you want to place the tier box yourself. Insert the Quantity Discounts block or use this shortcode in product content:

To show a particular product’s tiers on another page, supply its product ID:

Replace 123 with the actual product ID. When an automatic product-page position is selected, the plugin suppresses a shortcode or block in that product’s content to avoid a duplicate box. An explicit product ID can still be used on another page.

Show savings in the cart and checkout

Under Frontend styling → Display and pricing → Cart and checkout savings, choose Do not show savings, Show savings for each item, or Show total savings. Savings display is off by default. The plugin shows quantity-discount savings only when an active quantity tier actually supplies the final cart item price, so another price adjustment is not presented as a quantity discount.

To change the label, open Text settings → Cart and checkout savings text. For its appearance, enable Enhanced styling and adjust Cart and checkout savings styling: label color, amount color, font size, and weight.

Edit wording and design

Text settings

Use Text settings to change the product field label and description, product-page heading, discount tier text, shop/category message, cart and checkout savings label, and a validation error message. Save the tab after editing.

The Discount tier text template needs both placeholders: {qty} for the minimum quantity and {price} for the formatted unit price. The validation message can use {qty}, {price}, {previous_qty}, and {previous_price}. You can also translate plugin strings with Loco Translate; the plugin includes a translation template.

Frontend styling

Enable Enhanced styling to activate the styling controls. Choose Classic, Minimal, Modern, or Custom. Custom settings include box and border colors, border radius, padding, heading and text sizes and colors, discount price color, tier markers, spacing, and a box shadow. The Live preview responds while you edit settings; click Save Changes to apply them on the site. Enhanced styling is disabled by default, preserving the existing appearance until you enable it.

Export and import discounts with CSV

Open CSV import and export in the plugin settings.

Export: Select all categories or one product category, optionally include subcategories, choose a comma or semicolon column separator, and click Download CSV export. Semicolons can be easier to work with in European Excel installations. The export contains direct product and variation rules; category percentage rules are managed separately in their own tab.

Edit: Keep the header row intact. The CSV includes product ID, SKU, product name and type, regular and sale prices, quantity discount rules, visual rule rows, and start and end dates. Individual tiers inside the quantity_discounts cell always use semicolons, even if the CSV columns use commas:

3|8;5|7

Products are matched by product ID first, then SKU. Editing quantity_discounts changes those tiers to fixed-price rules. An unchanged exported percentage rule keeps its percentage type. The regular_price and sale_price columns can update prices for simple products and individual variations; an empty sale_price removes the sale price. Review price columns carefully before importing an edited file.

Import: Choose the edited CSV and click Import CSV. The importer detects comma or semicolon columns and accepts CSV files up to 5 MB. A result notice appears at the top of the tab and reports rows that were skipped. Test with a small export before changing a large catalog, and retain a copy of the original file.

Find products with discount rules

The Products list includes quantity-discount information, such as rule type, rule source, category rule, and lowest tier price, with filters to help find products with direct rules or missing discounts. For a specific variation, open the parent product and inspect that variation’s pricing fields.

Troubleshooting

The product-page box does not appear: Confirm the product has an applicable rule, product-page display is enabled, and any start or end date includes today. Check whether the selected position is Manual shortcode or block only. For variable products, select a variation that has direct rules or qualifies for a category rule.

The cart price is unchanged: Add enough of the same product or variation to reach a tier, then check the rule values and dates. Product and variation rules are separate; a direct rule on a variable parent is not inherited by its variations. If another pricing extension changes the same cart line, review the final cart price and test the two extensions together.

A percentage tier has no price: Check that the product or variation has a regular or applicable comparison price. Review Savings comparison price under Frontend styling → Display and pricing.

A category rule does not apply: Check the product’s assigned category, the Include subcategories option, any direct product or variation rule, and the overlapping-category setting.

A CSV row is skipped: Keep the original headers and verify the product ID or SKU, valid tier format, numeric prices, and the selected column delimiter. The import notice reports the outcome.