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Marketing and growth

The marketing tools help you win orders and bring customers back: price incentives, timed sales, recurring revenue, lifecycle email, social proof, and referral programs.

Discounts

/admin/discountssaved to DiscountCode, AutomaticDiscount, PricingTier

The discounts area covers three related tools, so you can reward a code, run a promotion that needs no code, or price by quantity.

Coupon codes
Codes a customer enters at checkout, for a percentage off, a fixed amount, or free shipping, with the usual limits on usage and eligibility.
Automatic discounts
Promotions that apply on their own when the cart qualifies, with no code to type.
Pricing tiers
Bulk or quantity based pricing that lowers the unit price as customers buy more.
Subscription incentives
Free month style offers for recurring plans.
Note: Discount values can be currency aware, which matters when the store sells in more than one currency.
Coupon codes, automatic discounts, and bulk pricing tiers.

Flash sales

/admin/flash-sales

Run time boxed sales that create urgency and switch themselves off when the window closes.

Scheduled window
A start and end time, after which the sale ends automatically.
Scope
The products or collections the sale applies to and the discount they get.
Countdown
A countdown timer that builds urgency while the sale is live.
Placements
High visibility badges and callouts on the storefront during the sale.
Time boxed sales with a countdown and high visibility placements.

Subscriptions

/admin/subscriptionssaved to Subscription

Turn one time buyers into recurring revenue with subscribe and save plans, then manage the subscriptions customers create.

Plans
The delivery intervals offered (for example every 30, 60, or 90 days), set on the Customer account and programs screen.
Subscribe and save discount
The recurring order discount that rewards subscribing.
Active subscriptions
View and manage the subscriptions customers have, including pauses and cancellations.
Automatic renewals
Renewals are charged automatically by the scheduled renewal job.
Note: This area needs the Subscriptions feature flag switched on in Store Settings.
Recurring purchase plans and active customer subscriptions.

Emails

/admin/store/emailssaved to emailBranding, emailUseCustomTemplates, EmailTemplate, EmailFlow

Control the email your store sends, from order receipts to lifecycle campaigns, and how those emails look.

Branding
The logo, colours, and footer applied to every email.
Custom templates
A switch to use your own templates in place of the built in ones.
Transactional email
Order confirmation, shipping updates, and account emails triggered by events.
Lifecycle flows
Abandoned cart, birthday and anniversary, win back, review requests, and replenishment reminders, sent by scheduled jobs.
Delivery
Uses the Resend or SMTP connection configured under Integrations, Email.
Branding, templates, and lifecycle flows for transactional and marketing email.

Newsletter

saved to NewsletterSubscriber, EmailCampaign

Build a subscriber list and send one off campaigns, on their own or synced to Mailchimp.

Subscribers
The list captured from the footer signup, popups, and checkout opt in.
Campaigns
Compose and send one off newsletter campaigns.
Mailchimp sync
Optionally sync subscribers to a Mailchimp audience, configured under Integrations, Email. The sync is durable: a failed push is retried rather than dropped.
Tip: Popups can be previewed from the admin before you publish one, so you can see the thing a visitor will see rather than guessing from a form.

Reviews and questions

saved to Review, Question, Answer

Build social proof on your product pages through customer reviews and a public questions and answers thread.

Reviews and ratings
Star ratings and written reviews shown on the product page and cards.
Questions and answers
Let shoppers ask questions on a product and answer them publicly.
Moderation
Approve, reply to, or hide submissions before they appear.
Automatic requests
Review request emails are sent automatically after purchase by the scheduled job.
Note: Reviews are gated by the Reviews feature flag in Store Settings.

Affiliates and referrals

saved to Affiliate, ReferralLink, ReferralConversion

Grow through partners and word of mouth by rewarding the people who bring in new business.

Affiliates
Partner accounts that earn for the sales they drive.
Referral links
Trackable links customers and partners share.
Conversions
The orders attributed to each link, so rewards are based on real results.
Customer referrals
The customer to customer referral reward is configured on the Customer account and programs screen.