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Disallow Discount Codes

Reject discount codes only when certain conditions match, for example for returning customers with small orders. A Playwright Checkout Rules template for cart, pricing and discount codes.

What it does

When a customer enters a code and the rule’s conditions match, Playwright rejects the code and shows your message.

To stop codes stacking with a Playwright offer, you can also use the Exclude Discount Codes cart condition inside a discount rule. See Stop discount stacking.

For example:

  • No discount codes for returning customers spending less than $30

Settings

Find it under Line Item Rules in Playwright, in Discount Codes and Reject Discounts and Other. Give the rule a name, fill in these settings and select Save Rule.

All or any criteria
Whether all of the conditions you set must match for the rule to apply, or any one of them. Conditions left at “All” aren’t counted. See All or any.
  • Reject code if all qualify
  • Reject code if any qualify
Eligible Customers
Which customers the rule applies to: “All”, one customer condition, or a Multi-Select that combines up to three. See customer conditions.
Eligible Carts in Checkout
Which carts the rule applies to: “All”, one cart or shipping address condition, or a Multi-Select that combines up to three. See cart conditions and destination conditions.
Any or all line items
Whether the item condition below must match any item in the cart or every item.
Eligible Line Items in Cart
An optional condition on the items in the cart, checked with the setting above. See product conditions.
Message
The message customers see when Playwright rejects their code. Leave it empty to use a default message.

Example: No codes on small repeat orders

  1. All or any criteria: Reject code if all qualify.
  2. Eligible Customers: Customer Order Count, Greater than, 0.
  3. Eligible Carts in Checkout: Cart/Item/Discount subtotal, Cart current subtotal, Less than, 30.
  4. Message: “Codes work on orders over $30.”

At checkout: A returning customer with a $25 cart can’t use a code. A first order, or a $40 cart, can.

On Shopify Functions

Playwright publishes this template as part of the Shopify discount “Playwright: discount rules”, and as “Playwright: discount codes” when its rules check for codes.

  • Codes are only rejected when Shopify allows it, and codes your own rules check for are never rejected. See Rejecting codes.

These conditions aren’t available in discount rules, so a rule that uses one isn’t published:

  • Customer Accepts Marketing: Shopify Functions can’t see whether a customer accepts marketing. Tag those customers and use a customer tag condition instead.
  • Has Properties: Line item properties aren’t available to Shopify Functions.
  • Cart Total Weight: Cart weight isn’t available to Shopify Functions.
  • PO Box Qualifier: Street addresses aren’t available to discount rules. Use this condition in shipping or payment rules.
  • Full Address Qualifier: Street addresses aren’t available to discount rules. Use this condition in shipping or payment rules.
  • Compare to billing address: Shopify Functions can’t compare billing and shipping addresses here.
  • Discounted Cart Subtotal (applied by discount code): Shopify Functions only see the discount code itself, not its type or value.

Tag conditions match whole tags only. See Conditions and Publishing.