How to offer a free gift with purchase above a cart amount on Shopify

Create a free gift tier

A free gift tier is a tier of type Free product, set up in four steps.

1. Open Goals & Discounts, tab Goals, then click Add a goal and choose Free product.
2. In the tier sentence, set the threshold: a cart amount, a weight or a number of items, depending on the bar the tier belongs to.
3. Keep Goal + automatic discount: the app creates the Shopify discount that makes the gift free. With Goal only, the bar still shows the tier, but you create the matching Buy X get Y automatic discount yourself in Shopify Discounts.
4. Click Save.

Choose the gift products

Select the products to offer under Discounted products: up to 20 different products, with no limit on variants. With several products or variants, Selectable free product quantity sets how many gifts the shopper can pick.

At a discounted value sets what the shopper pays for the gift:

• Free: the gift costs nothing.
• Percentage: a percentage off the product.
• Amount off each: a fixed amount off each unit.
• Final amount each: the price paid for each unit.

Set a specific discount per product gives each selected product its own value. The admin warns you when a gift can’t be offered: product in Draft, variant out of stock, or product not available on the online store.

Choose how the gift gets into the cart

The Auto add gift to cart card offers four modes.

Mode	What the shopper sees
Auto add gift to cart / Auto show Gift modal (default)	A single-variant gift is added automatically. With several products or variants, the gift chooser opens on its own.
Show "Choose a gift" button	A button under the bar opens the gift chooser. Offered only when there is more than one gift variant.
Show gift list in the progress bar	The gifts are listed inside the bar and added in one click. Image and name link to the product page. The list appears once the tier is reached.
Disable auto add to cart / Disable modal & button	Compatibility mode: the app adds nothing, because another app adds the gift.

Texts, colours and layout of the gift chooser are set in the Gift interface tab: see gift chooser.

Sell the product until the tier is reached

In gift list mode, Offer the products before the goal is reached, as a paid option shows the list from the first item in the cart. Below the threshold, ticking a product adds it at full price; it becomes free (or discounted) once the tier is reached, and paid again if the cart drops back. Typical use: paid gift wrapping, free above a set amount. This product never counts towards its own tier’s threshold.

One gift per multiple reached

Proportional free product quantity makes the number of gifts follow how many times the cart reaches the tier. Example: tier at 1 item from a collection, 2 items added, 2 free products.

Keep or remove the gift

The gift leaves the cart when the cart drops below the threshold. Two options change what happens above it:

• Then remove the gift from the cart removes the gift once a second threshold is passed. Choose the next goal is reached (default: follows the next tier on the same bar; with no tier above, the rule does nothing) or an amount is reached (a fixed amount above the tier’s threshold).
• Force to keep the gift in cart stops the shopper from removing the gift: no “no thanks” button on the storefront, no box to untick and no Remove link at checkout.

The gift is also offered at checkout: see checkout.

Free gift and discount codes

A gift and a discount code only coexist if each one allows the other. The gift is a product discount: in Shopify Discounts, the code must allow combining with product discounts, and the tier must allow the code’s class (icons next to Goal + automatic discount).

When a code that doesn’t combine is applied, the gift is removed with a message telling the shopper why, even with Force to keep the gift in cart. Removing the code puts the same gift back automatically.

Gift missing or disappearing? See gift not added and gift removed.