Free Tiered Pricing and Bulk Discount Plugin for WooCommerce

Tiered pricing means the price per item drops as the customer buys more: a mug costs $12 on its own, $10 each from 10 mugs, and 20% less from 50. Codiffy Tiered Pricing, a free tiered pricing and bulk discount plugin for WooCommerce, lets you set those quantity steps (“tiers”) on a product, on a variation or for whole categories. It shows a bulk pricing table on the product page and uses the right price in the cart and at checkout, with no coupon code for the customer to enter.

How WooCommerce tiered pricing works: a worked example

A store sells a coffee mug at a normal price of $12.00 and gives it two tiers:

The customer gets the tier with the highest minimum quantity they reach. Someone buying 9 mugs pays $108.00, someone buying 12 pays $10.00 each, $120.00 in total, and someone buying 50 pays $9.60 each, $480.00 in total. Each tier runs until the next one starts, so you never enter a maximum quantity.

In the cart, each line uses its tier price and shows the normal price crossed out, so the customer sees what they saved. A percentage tier is worked out from each product’s own price: 10 bags of coffee at $24.00 with a 15% tier cost $20.40 each.

Quantity discounts per product, per variation or for a whole category

• On a product: in Product data > General, under Tiered pricing. On a variable product, these tiers apply to every variation that has none of its own, worked out from each variation’s price.
• On a variation: a variation with its own tiers ignores the product’s tiers. The table on the product page follows the variation the customer chooses.
• With rule sets: under WooCommerce > Tiered Pricing, give whole categories (and their sub-categories) or chosen products the same tiers. When several rule sets match, the one with the highest priority wins. Drafts are not applied, so you can prepare a sale and publish it later.

Only one set of tiers is used for a product, and they are never added together: the variation’s own tiers first, then the product’s, then the highest-priority matching rule set. A tier can never make an item more expensive than its normal or sale price, and never cheaper than zero. Coupons still work and are applied on top of the tier prices.

How to set up tiered pricing in WooCommerce

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New, search for “Codiffy Tiered Pricing”, click Install Now, then Activate. WooCommerce must be active.
2. Edit a product. In Product data > General, scroll to Tiered pricing.
3. Add a row for each tier: the minimum quantity, Fixed price per item or Percentage discount, and the amount. Click Add tier for more rows.
4. Click Update. The bulk pricing table appears on the product page and the cart uses the tier prices.
5. Optional: choose where the table shows, the “You save” column, the live total and the “From” price under WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Tiered pricing.

Activating the plugin changes no price on its own: prices only change for products you give tiers to, directly or through a rule set. When you save, tiers are sorted by quantity, and rows that are invalid or duplicated are refused with a message that says which ones.

Settings that change how the discount works

• Count quantity: per cart line, or per product so that all variations count together. With per product, 6 small and 4 large T-shirts reach a tier that starts at 10.
• Products on sale: apply tiers to the sale price (a fixed tier price is used only when it is lower than the sale price), or ignore tiers while a product is on sale.
• “From” price: in shop and category lists, show the lowest price per item a customer can reach, for example “From $9.60”.
• Taxes: enter tier prices the same way as your normal prices; the table and the cart show them the way your store displays prices.

Prices are always worked out on your server from the quantity in the cart, in the classic cart and checkout, the block cart and checkout, and the WooCommerce Store API, so a customer cannot change them from the browser. It works in block and classic themes and with HPOS order storage. Developers can change the tiers for any product with the codiffy_tp_tiers filter.

A free alternative to paid tiered pricing plugins

Codiffy Tiered Pricing is completely free under the GPLv2 or later license, with no premium version and no upsells inside the plugin. It is a rewrite of Codiffy’s own in-house “Price by quantity” plugin. If you were looking at a paid dynamic pricing plugin only for quantity discounts and a bulk pricing table, this covers that part. It passed Plugin Check with no errors or warnings and an independent security review, contacts no external service, tracks nobody, and loads its files only on product pages that show a table.

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