How to Set Up Spend Tiers on Cart Drawer

Spend Tiers: Free Shipping Bars, Discounts & Free Gifts

Spend tiers add a progress bar to the cart that rewards customers for spending or adding more — "Spend $20 more for free shipping", "Add 1 more for 15% off", or "Spend $75 to unlock a free gift". As the cart grows, the bar fills, and when a threshold is reached the reward applies automatically at checkout — no discount code for the customer to type.

This is the same feature merchants ask for as a "free shipping bar", "reward goal bar", "rewards", or "Buy X Get Y" — they're all built here.

Turning it on

1. In the editor, open the Spend tiers section.
2. Toggle it on for your market (your primary market is listed first).
3. Click Save.

Step 1: Choose what the bar measures

Under Reward for, pick what fills the progress bar:

• Cart amount — based on the cart subtotal. The most common choice (free shipping, % off over a spend threshold).
• Item count added to cart — based on how many items are in the cart (e.g. Buy 3, get 15% off).
• Specific products added to cart — the reward unlocks when a particular product is in the cart.

If you chose Specific products, you can also set Exclude products so certain items don't count toward the threshold.

Step 2: Add your tiers

Each tier is one milestone on the bar. Add as many as you need — for example free shipping at $50 and 15% off at $100 — and order them from lowest threshold to highest.

For each tier, set:

• Tier name — for your reference (and used as the checkout discount label if you don't set a separate message).
• Min value — the cart amount or item count needed to reach this tier.
• Text before reaching the goal — the progress message customers see while working toward it. Use {remaining_amount}  to show the live amount left:

> You're only {remaining_amount} away from free shipping!

• Reward type — choose one:

- Order % — a percentage (or fixed amount) off the whole order. - Free product — a specific product added to the cart for free. Pick the product and quantity. - Shipping % — a discount on shipping. Set it to 100% for completely free shipping.

• Discount value / type — for Order % and Shipping %, choose Percentage, Fixed amount, or Custom, and enter the value.

Step 3: The "all rewards unlocked" message

Below the tier list, set Text after completing the full rewards bar — what customers see once they've unlocked every tier, e.g. 🎉 You've unlocked all rewards!

This message is easy to overlook — if customers report "nothing happens after the last tier", this is the field to fill in.

Common setups

"Buy X Get Y" / BOGO: set Reward for → Specific products, choose the trigger product, and make the reward a Free product (the Y item). For a percentage instead of free, use an Upsell offer with a discount.

Selling to multiple markets / currencies

If you use Shopify Markets, each market appears in the market list and can be configured separately. Your primary market is the starting point; every other market can either inherit it or get its own settings.

For each additional market, choose:

• Use default market tiers — the market reuses your primary market's thresholds and rewards. Amounts are shown in local currency using Shopify's conversion.
• Use specific settings for this market — the market gets its own independent thresholds and rewards, entered directly in that market's currency.

Important — set local thresholds explicitly. Thresholds are not automatically FX-converted to a "fair" round number. If you set $50 on the default market, a customer in another market may see an oddly converted figure (or unlock the reward at the wrong spend). To control exactly what each market needs to spend — e.g. £40 in the UK, €45 in the EU — choose Use specific settings for that market and enter the local amount yourself.

Turning a market off hides the progress bar entirely for customers in that market; other markets are unaffected.

Excluding products from the threshold

Use Exclude products to stop certain items counting toward the spend threshold — for example, already-discounted items or gift cards. Free products added automatically as rewards are always excluded.

A note on the automatic discount

When you configure a tier with a discount, the app creates a Shopify automatic discount behind the scenes (you'll see an entry called "Essential Cart – Automatic Discount" in your Shopify admin). This is expected — it's how the reward applies at checkout. See Discounts & the discount code field for how this interacts with manual codes.

Design & translations

• Switch to the Design sub-tab to recolour the bar, milestone markers, and text.
• Each tier's messages can be translated per language and per market.