Settings

The Settings tab is a top-level tab in the Dino Discounts admin, sitting between Coupons and Message Settings. It contains controls that affect how the entire discount engine behaves — these are global and apply across all discounts. Changes here are drafts until you publish them, like any other change.

Available settings

Maximum Discount Cap

A safety ceiling on the total discount any cart can receive.

Setting	Description
Maximum Discount Cap	Toggle the cap on or off (off by default). The other two controls appear once it is on
Cap Type	Percentage of Subtotal or Fixed Amount
Maximum % Discount / Maximum Discount Amount	The ceiling — e.g. 40% means no cart can receive more than 40% of its subtotal in total discount

A fixed-amount cap has no currency, so on a store that sells in more than one currency it is ignored, and the tab shows a warning telling you to switch to a percentage cap. The message shoppers see when the cap reduces their discount is set on the Message Settings tab.

When to use: As a safety net against unexpected discount combinations. If you have multiple team members creating discounts, or complex stacking, the cap ensures no customer gets an unreasonable discount.

Coupon interaction

WooCommerce coupon interaction

Controls how the Dino Discounts engine behaves when a real WooCommerce coupon is also on the cart. The control lives on the Settings tab and writes to the global wc_coupon_kill_switch option.

Option	Behaviour
Apply Dino discounts alongside (default) (off)	Dino discounts and WooCommerce coupons both apply to the cart
Suppress all Dino discounts when a coupon is applied (disable_dino_when_wc_coupon_applied)	As soon as any real WooCommerce coupon is present, every Dino discount is suppressed for that cart

When to enable the kill-switch: If you run separate coupon promotions (e.g., via marketing emails) and don’t want them to stack with your automatic discounts. This prevents “double dipping.”

This is a global kill-switch

When set to “Suppress all Dino discounts”, every Dino discount stops firing for any cart with a WooCommerce coupon — regardless of how the discount is targeted. That includes Dino coupon codes the shopper already entered. If a merchant turns this on and later notices that Dino discounts have gone quiet, this setting is the first thing to check.

Other discount plugins

How Dino Discounts behaves when another discount or coupon plugin is active, or a native WooCommerce coupon is on the cart:

Option	Behaviour
Warn of conflicts (default)	Dino still applies and an admin notice flags the conflict
Yield — step aside to avoid double discounts	Dino discounts are suppressed while a conflict is detected
Take precedence — Dino applies first	Dino applies first and WooCommerce coupons apply afterwards on the reduced subtotal

See Coexistence with other discount plugins.

Country matching uses

Which address Dino Discounts checks against your countries and zones:

• Shipping → Billing → Store (default)
• Billing → Shipping → Store
• Shipping address only
• Billing address only

Shipping first matches how WooCommerce works out taxes and shipping zones, and how a multi-currency plugin like Price Based on Country picks the shopper’s pricing zone.

Stacking mode and pausing all discounts

These controls are on the Discounts tab

The stacking mode and the Pause All kill switch are no longer on the Settings tab. They live in the When discounts overlap dropdown in the Discounts tab toolbar (the bar directly above the discounts table). See Discount Priority & Stacking.

Performance tracking

The Performance Tracking toggle is on the Dev Tools tab, not Settings. See Performance Monitoring.

Privacy & diagnostics

When the plugin has a telemetry endpoint (every release zip does), a Privacy & diagnostics section lets a site administrator opt in to Share anonymous diagnostics. It is off by default. Once on, three separate toggles choose what is sent: Usage analytics, Error & crash reports and Active plugin list. These save as soon as you flip them — they don’t wait for Publish. Turning the main toggle off stops all future sends immediately.

When you delete this plugin

Deleting Dino Discounts from your Plugins list normally leaves your discounts, coupons, settings and history on the site, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. Turn on Also erase all Dino Discounts data on delete to drop everything when the plugin is deleted. Deactivating the plugin is unaffected.

Reset onboarding tips and Advanced

• Reset onboarding tips — shows the in-app tips you have dismissed again.
• Reset onboarding experience — re-shows the first-run welcome panel, sample discounts and first-publish callout.
• Install sample discounts — replaces your current discount list with three sample discounts. You must type INSTALL to confirm. A History snapshot is written so the discount list can be rolled back, but coupon-code pools linked to the replaced discounts are archived, per-discount usage counts are cleared, and analytics rows stay attached to the old discount IDs.
• Reset all usage — clears every discount’s store-wide and per-customer redemption counters, so usage caps start from zero again. Discounts, coupons and analytics are untouched. This cannot be undone.
• Feedback — report a bug or send an idea to the team.

Start with defaults

The default settings (no cap, apply alongside coupons, warn of conflicts, shipping-first country matching) work well for most stores. Only change them when you have a specific reason to.

Automatic conflict detection

Dino Discounts automatically detects two types of potential conflicts and shows admin notices:

Incompatible discount plugins

If any of these plugins are active alongside Dino Discounts, a warning banner appears advising you to deactivate them or verify your discount rules:

• WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts
• Discount Rules for WooCommerce
• YITH Dynamic Pricing and Discounts (Premium)
• Smart Coupons for WooCommerce
• Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce

Running multiple discount plugins can cause unexpected pricing — prices may be discounted twice or rules may conflict.

Caching plugins

If a full-page caching plugin is detected (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, and others) and its settings don’t already leave cart and checkout out, a notice reminds you to exclude /cart/ and /checkout/ from page caching. Caching these pages can cause discounts to appear stale or not apply.

You can dismiss this notice. It comes back only if a different set of caching plugins is detected.