Free shipping
How to set up a free shipping discount
These days, free shipping is often employed by webshops looking to gain an edge over the competition – a wise decision, since some surveys report that up to 40% of customers have abandoned a purchase because they felt the delivery costs were too high.
When combined with an added incentive to add more products to cart – e.g. by offering free shipping on orders above a certain threshold – the business case for free shipping is hard to ignore.
In this tutorial we will create a Free shipping for orders above 100 discount. To do so:
- Go to Commerce > Discounts
- Click New discount
- Select Free Shipping as the discount type
- In the Discount-tab, configure the following settings:
- Provide a Name, e.g. Free shipping, the name shown on the order when applied discount
- Check the Active checkbox
- If needed, add a Description
- Switch to the Conditions-tab, in this tab multiple configurations are possible, but we'll only touch on the essentials
- In the Total price-section configure the following:
- Set Condition as Greater than or equal to
- Set Total price as 100, if no currency is selected the default currency for the shop is used
- In the Total price-section configure the following:
- Click Save and close
The result is a discount which subtracts any shipping fees incurred on all orders over 100 – please note that this is 100 of whichever currency the order is placed in, so on multi-currency solutions it will be wise to use the Order section to limit it to a specific country or use a specific currency.