Choose Which Products Count Toward Spend Tiers
You decide which cart items fill the spend tier bar. Count everything, only some products, or only some collections. Then leave out what shouldn't count, like gift cards.
Set it up
- Open Spend tiers, then Offers.
- Under Reward when, pick Cart amount reached or Item count added to cart.
- Under Count products from, pick an option.
- Pick products or collections in the list that appears.
- Click Save.
| Count products from | What counts | Exclude options |
|---|---|---|
| All products | Every item | Exclude specific products, Exclude collections |
| Specific products | Only the products and variants in Selected products | None |
| Products in specific collections | Only products in Selected collections | Exclude specific products |
The choice applies to every tier on the bar: free shipping, free gift and order discount tiers alike.
With Specific products added to cart, Count products from doesn't show. Each tier counts only its own product.
What checkout does
Order discount tiers apply only to the products that count. Example: Count products from is Products in specific collections > Summer, and the tier is $100 → 10% off. A customer with $120 of Summer items and a $40 hat gets 10% off the Summer items only.
Good to know
- Single variants: pick only that variant in the picker.
- Collections need a refresh. Collection lists don't update on their own. If you add or remove products in Shopify, click Refresh in the blue banner under the list, or just save again.
- Lists can't be saved empty. With Specific products or Products in specific collections, an empty list stops Save with Select at least one product or Select at least one collection.
- Switching options: your lists stay until you save, so you can switch back. Saving keeps only the lists of the option you picked.
- Deleted products and collections show as no longer existing. Remove them with the ✕, or save to clean them up.
Items that are already left out
- Free gifts added by spend tiers never count toward the total.
- Order upsells (like shipping protection) do count. Exclude the order upsell's product if you want it out.
Why the bar stays visible with only excluded products
The bar stays visible even when the cart holds only products that don't count. It just doesn't move. If the cart mixes them, the bar shows the counted products' share only.
See also What Counts Toward a Spend Tier Goal.