Most WooCommerce discount plugins list the same deal types. The differences that actually change your day — and your revenue — are elsewhere. Here are the questions worth asking of any plugin, including ours.
A discount rule is logic, and logic has edge cases. Without a live preview you publish, then test on the live store with throwaway orders — or worse, find out from a customer. Look for a plugin that re-evaluates a simulated cart as you edit, and tells you why a rule won't fire.
Dino: a live Cart Preview re-runs the real engine on every change, with "why it won't run" diagnostics.
"Spend £5 more for free shipping" is the single biggest lever on average order value. Some tools only apply the discount silently; some make you buy a second "cart upsell" plugin for the nudge. Look for live messages in the cart, the mini-cart and checkout, updated as the cart changes.
Dino: live nudges in cart, slide-out mini-cart and checkout — built in.
WooCommerce now ships block-based Cart and Checkout, but many discount plugins were built for the Classic shortcode pages and lag on blocks. Check both render correctly — and, if you're headless, that discounts surface in the Store API.
Dino: Block and Classic both, plus the WC Store API for headless and mini-cart widgets.
"Free" plugins often gate the deal you actually want — BOGO, role-based pricing, scheduling — behind the paid tier. Before you commit, check which features sit on which plan, so the tool still fits once you scale.
Dino: every recipe and targeting option is included — no per-feature paywall.
Discount engines recalculate the cart on every change — done carelessly, that drags page loads, especially on sale days. Ask whether the vendor publishes a method for its performance claim, not just a number.
Dino: ~2ms added on a typical store (around 12ms on a large 50-item cart) — with the full method published, so you can check it.
If you build stores for a living, the questions change: how many sites does the licence cover, is there white-label, how much training does a client need, and is there an API for the inevitable odd request?
Dino: clean admin to hand off, 30+ hooks + a REST API, and an agency story.
That's what the live preview is for. Join the Beta — free, every recipe included — and run your first discount in minutes.