---
title: "How do I set up an Order goal discount (spend $X, get Y off)?"
description: "Spend $X, get a percentage or amount off the order. Order goal tiers, products excluded from the goal, and how the subtotal is counted."
url: "https://smart-bundles.io/help/cart-discounts/order-goal-discounts"
updated: "2026-11-02"
product: "SMART Bundles App & Upsells"
section: "Help center / Cart discounts"
---


# How do I set up an Order goal discount (spend $X, get Y off)?

Pick **Order goal** under **Other discount types**, add **Tiers** with a **Required amount** and a **Percentage off** or **Amount off**, and optionally list **Products excluded from discount**. When the items that count reach a tier, the highest tier reached comes off the order in the cart and at checkout.

## Step by step

1. In SMART Discounts, click **Create new discount** and pick **Order goal** under **Other discount types**.
2. Enter a **Discount name** and choose **Automatic** or **Code** under **Application method**.
3. In **Tiers** > **Tier #1**, enter the **Required amount** in your store currency, a **Discount label** (automatic only; code discounts show the code at checkout), the **Discount type** (**Percentage off** or **Amount off**) and the **Discount value**. Click **Add tier** for more, up to 10.
4. Optional: under **Products excluded from discount** ("These products will be excluded from the discount when calculating it."), set **Any items from** and pick the items to leave out. Left empty, nothing is excluded.
5. Check **Purchase types**, **Combines with**, **Eligibility**, **Active dates** and the **Conditions** card in the right column, then click **Create**.

## How the discount is calculated

- The goal adds up the cart's items except the excluded ones, at their prices **before other discounts**. Shopify's discount functions run at the same time and don't see each other ([Shopify developer docs](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/functions/latest/discount)).
- So a bundle's free or reduced units count at full price, and a [free gift](https://smart-bundles.io/help/free-gifts/set-up-a-free-gift) line counts at its full price too. To keep the gift out of the goal, add the gift product to **Products excluded from discount**.
- Only one tier applies: the highest tier the cart reaches.
- **Percentage off** comes off the items that count. **Amount off** takes that amount off the order.
- Excluded products don't count toward the goal and don't get the discount.
- Amounts are converted from your store currency at Shopify's rate for shoppers in other currencies.

## Example

| Cart (items that count) | Tiers: $100 = 10% off, $200 = $30 off | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $80 | No tier reached | No discount |
| $150 | $100 tier | 10% off: $15 |
| $240 | $200 tier | $30 off |

## Limits and edge cases

- **Excluding everything:** **Any items from** set to **All products** leaves nothing to count, so the discount never applies.
- **No progress message.** There's no progress bar or "spend $X more" message on the storefront. Announce the goal in your theme, for example in an announcement bar.
- **Free shipping is a different type.** Order goal takes money off the order, not off shipping. For free shipping over an amount, use a [Shipping discount](https://smart-bundles.io/help/cart-discounts/shipping-discounts) with **Minimum order amount**.
- **Subscriptions.** **Applies on subscription purchases** is off by default, and then a cart holding any subscription item gets no Order goal discount. Turn it on in **Purchase types** if you need it.
- **Combining.** An order discount combines with product discounts, such as bundles, only when both discounts allow it ([Shopify Help Center](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/discounts/discount-combinations)). New Order goal discounts combine with product, order and shipping discounts by default. See [Combine with other discounts](https://smart-bundles.io/help/troubleshooting/combine-with-other-discounts).
- **Who gets it:** customer segments, markets, customer tags and countries. See [Customer eligibility](https://smart-bundles.io/help/cart-discounts/customer-eligibility).
- For several rules in one discount, such as an order discount plus free shipping for one product group, use an [Advanced discount](https://smart-bundles.io/help/cart-discounts/advanced-discounts).

**Set a spend goal for bigger orders** SMART Bundles includes Order goal, Volume, Shipping and Advanced discounts, plus free gifts. Free, with every feature included. [Install SMART Bundles App & Upsells on the Shopify App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/smart-automatic-discounts).

## Frequently asked questions

### Does the goal use the price after a bundle discount?

No. The goal counts prices before other discounts, so a bundle's discounted units count at full price. Exclude those products if they shouldn't count.

### Can I show customers how much more they need to spend?

Not with Order goal. It has no progress bar or "spend $X more" message, so use your theme's announcement bar or a text block.