How to Create Unique Shopify Discount Codes in Wisepops

Thinking about using discounts to get more revenue?

Let’s get you there. The first step: create discount codes for your Shopify store. You can generate the codes automatically and share them with your customers on autopilot.

Below, you’ll learn how to do so with Wisepops easily.

Get started:

• Shopify discount types

• How to create discount codes for Shopify

• Popular discount tactics

Types of Shopify discounts

Let’s look at the four basic types of discounts available in Shopify.

Percentage discount

The discount is given as a percentage, e.g. 20% off. It’s the most popular discount type (you probably also signed up for 10% or 20% off your first purchase once or twice, right?). Percent-off discounts are versatile and used to drive sales, recover carts, and other goals.

Fixed amount

This discount is the monetary amount of the normal selling price, e.g. $10 off. Jonah Berger, a marketing expert, recommends it for items priced over $100 because customers perceive it as having the best value.

Free shipping

In this discount type, the order ships for free. That is, if it meets the conditions you predefined. They can be a minimum purchase amount, the quantity of products in the order, or a certain cost of shipping.

Buy X get Y

This one is also called “Buy one, get one free” or BOGO. To get the free product, the customer must buy one or multiple items. This strategy works great for time-limited sales offering products of frequent use (beauty, cleaning, etc.)

How to create Shopify discount codes in Wisepops

ℹ️ Before you begin
Log in to Wisepops and connect your store. Sign up or log in here or, if you prefer, use our Shopify store page.

Get on Shopify

Step 1: Make a new campaign

In Wisepops dashboard (Popups tab):

• Click New Campaign

• Select Custom Campaign

• Choose Popup

Here are these steps:

Step 2: Add a discount code

You can make two discount code types: public and unique. 

Public discount code is a code that multiple customers can apply. Unique discount code is unique to each customer and can be used only once.

Adding a unique discount code

• Go to Blocks in the main menu

• Click THANK YOU 

• Choose Discount code

• Select Unique discount code

• Choose a discount from your store

Note that you can use discounts set to be used only one time (this is done in Shopify dash).

After this step, the unique code will be automatically added to your campaign. You’re done!

Now let’s try creating the public codes.

Adding a public discount code

• Go to Blocks in the main menu

• Choose Discount code

• Click Select in the Public discount code section

• Select how to create the code:

Choose Shopify discount: means selecting a code from your Shopify account

Insert code: Wisepops creates a code for you

If you decide to get the code from Shopify, just choose one from the dropdown in the same section☝️Or, click Insert code and Wisepops will automatically add it to your campaign.

Whatever option you choose, customize the code to your liking.

Step 3: Set up the button

So, now, would you like to allow the customer to copy the code to their clipboard or apply automatically in the checkout?

Here’s how to choose—

While in the Discount block, click the Button tab.

There, you can make the choice of what happens when visitors click on the discount code.

Step 4: Customize the design

We created the discount code, so now we need to make our campaign match the overall style of your website. So, go ahead and customize the design: fonts, colors, copy, and images.

Need some design inspiration to get your creative juices flowing? 

See the next section for fantastic designs along with effective discount tactics.

Popular discount tactics

Here’s how to turn the four discount types into great deals, with examples from successful online stores.

First-time customer discount (fixed amount)

Best for: Building a customer base

Customer acquisition is hard and expensive. That’s why businesses offer discounts to new visitors. It’s a good strategy: 39% of shoppers agree that discounts are enough to convince them to buy.

Example: SurfStitch uses Wisepops to run this welcome popup with a $20 discount. Campaigns like these convert up to 5% of visitors.

Package deal (percentage discount)

Best for: Increasing the average order value (AOV)

With this discount tactic, you can offer several products as a “package deal” at a lower price than it would cost to buy them separately. It’s a good idea to sell related products + your packaging and shipping costs will be lower.

Example: Bombas allows purchasing sets of products for a discounted price.

“Free shipping” discount

Best for: Getting more sales

The word “free” has an amazing effect: 50% of shoppers say it’s the top reason they decide to make a purchase. 

Example: Lobos 1707 offers free shipping to all customers immediately when they enter the site to encourage adding more products to the cart while browsing.

“Buy one, get one free” discount

Best for: Getting more sales with time-limited, special offers

Note that you can tweak this discount strategy. For example, it’s pretty common to require two purchases, e.g. “Buy two, get one free.” 

Example: Blume celebrated its fourth anniversary with a BOGO sale. Here’s the announcement as a homepage popup.

The bottom line

Discounts can get you more customers, increase the average order value, prevent cart abandonment, and increase sales.

Play around with all discounts to see what works. For example, you might find that fixed amount discounts generate more sales of expensive products because your customers perceive them as having the best value. 

With that in mind, I hope you learned to create discount codes for your Shopify store. Now, go get those sales!