Introductory discounts
Many retailers offer introductory periods for their subscription and membership plans to increase conversion whilst easing the customer into their new routine. You can achieve this in Supercycle with native Shopify discounts.
At present, discounts can only be automatically applied across all of your plans (so you can't have 1 plan discounted and 2 plans undiscounted). To achieve this you can build your own Featured plans section.
From your Shopify admin head to discounts, hit create discount and select amount off products.
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Value
Maximum discount uses
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That's it! You'll want to make sure the discount has no end date and hit save discount.
In the previous step, we had to create a discount code as subscriptions aren't supported by Shopify's automatic discount functionality. As things are, your customers will have to apply the discount code themselves at the checkout stage - which isn't great!
Discounts can be automatically applied in Shopify by URL. We're going to use this in your Supercycle plan settings to apply the discount once the customer has added a membership plan to their cart.
In your Shopify admin, head to Supercycle settings.
Under membership rental, we're going to change the plan success redirect URL.
By default, this will be set to cart but you may have your own path here like collections/all. We're going to change this to redirect to a URL that applies the discount to the customer's basket before redirecting to the URL we actually want to send the customer to. We'll do this by prepending discount/{discount code}?redirect=.
You should now have something that looks a bit like this:
discount/92Z94XEEQHAZ?redirect=/collections/all
Before saving, we need to escape the slashes in the URL parameter (everything after ?redirect=). You do this by replacing each / with %2F.
Your finished path should look something like this:
discount/92Z94XEEQHAZ?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fall
Make sure to save your changes!
