Your First Automatic Discount

This walkthrough creates a two-tier “Spend £50, get 10% off; spend £100, get 15% off” discount. By the end, your store will automatically apply the discount to any cart that hits a threshold — no coupon code needed.

Prefer to watch first?

The Quick Start plays the same discount being built, previewed and published in three steps.

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Step by step

Open the recipe gallery

Navigate to WooCommerce → Dino Discounts and click the + Create Discount button in the top toolbar.

On your first visit a Welcome to Dino Discounts panel also shows. Its Start building button opens a blank editor and skips the gallery, so use + Create Discount for this walkthrough.

Pick the “Spend & Save” recipe

The recipe gallery groups templates under Common mechanisms with six small sub-headings — pick whichever matches what you want to build:

• % / £ discounts
• Spend & save / tiers
• Customer segments
• Coupon-triggered
• BOGO / bundle
• Time / day

Underneath, a Seasonal · pre-filled row offers worked-example templates (Black Friday, Mother’s Day, etc.), and a dashed Build any discount tile in the top-right opens a blank editor. Hover a tile to see What this sets up.

For this walkthrough, under Spend & save / tiers, select Spend & Save.

Read the summary, then set the tiers

The editor opens with your chosen recipe pre-filled. The green Summary box at the top is the editor’s Plain English summary of what your rule does so far. Placeholders such as [set the percentage] mark the values you still need to enter. It updates as you fill in fields, so you can sanity-check the rule without leaving the page. Sections that still need a value are highlighted and marked required in the section navigation.

Scroll to the Rewards section. Reward type is already set to Tiered % off the cart, with two tier rows seeded at 100 and 200 and a 0% reward. Change them to:

Tier	Spend at least	% Off
1	50	10
2	100	15

Want another tier? Click + Add tier below the table — for example, spend £200 → 20% off.

The recipe also asks for a currency. If your store sells in more than one currency, pick one in Where does it apply? → Applies in currency… → Currency (the Suggested: line names your store currency). A single-currency store fills this in for you.

Preview in the Cart Preview

The Cart Preview sits in the right rail of the editor and shows how your discount applies to a simulated cart — using the real discount engine, not an approximation. Click Add Product From Store or Add Custom Item (or open Sample carts), adjust the quantity, and the totals update immediately. Push the subtotal across each tier boundary to confirm the right tier fires at each step.

If the discount doesn’t apply, the Why this cart looks like this panel at the bottom of the rail says why — for example, that the cart doesn’t reach the tier threshold.

Save as draft

Click Save Draft in the top-right corner of the editor. Dino saves the discount and takes you back to the Discounts table. The discount is saved but not live on your store yet. (Discard next to it throws the new discount away instead.)

Drafts are safe

Saving a draft never affects your live store. You can experiment freely — nothing changes for customers until you explicitly publish.

Publish your discount

When you’re happy:

1. On the Discounts tab, find the You have unpublished changes banner at the top
2. Click Publish changes to open the Publish to your shop modal
3. Review the What goes live summary listing every pending change (you can also add an optional label and notes for History)
4. Click Publish changes in the modal

Your discount is now live. Any customer whose cart reaches £50 will automatically see 10% off, and 15% off from £100.

Everything else is optional

Beyond Rewards and anything the recipe marks required, the sections — Who is this for?, When does it apply?, Where does it apply?, What triggers it?, and Messaging — have sensible defaults and can be left as-is. Open them when you want to narrow the audience, set a schedule, restrict to a zone or currency, tie the discount to a coupon code, require matching items in the cart (Cart contains matching items under What triggers it?), or rewrite the shopper-facing copy.

Made a mistake? You can always roll back

Every time you publish, Dino Discounts saves a snapshot of your discount configuration. If something goes wrong, open the History tab in the admin, pick any previous snapshot, and click Restore to rewind to that exact state.

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What’s next?

You’ve got the basics down. Here’s where to go next:

• See It Live on Your Store — Watch a shopper’s cart reach £50 and the discount apply
• Creating a Discount Coupon — Create a coupon-triggered discount from a recipe
• Targeting — Restrict discounts to specific products, categories, or customer roles
• Cart labels — Customise what customers see in their cart
• Upsell messages — Show “Add £15 more for 15% off!” nudges
• Discount stacking — Control what happens when multiple discounts apply