# Product Discounts

How to create Product Discounts.

A Product Discount applies to a specific Product or subset of Products based on the criteria you provide. They apply before adding a Product to the Cart, and are stored as a discounted price in the **Prices** tab of the Product Variant information screen. This makes them useful for displaying discounted or sale prices on a product information page.

They are useful when creating Discounts for the following scenarios:

- Specific Products or SKUs, for example, a sale on a specific color of handbag
- Subsets of Customers, for example, a "platinum members-only" sale
- Subsets of Products, for example, a sale on all handbags or wallets
- Business-defined Attributes, for example, a sale on products by a certain designer

Product Discounts are subject to a [limit](/api/limits.md#product-discounts) in a Project.

Learn more about Product Discounts in our self-paced [Product Discounts](/learning-price-and-discount-your-products/product-discounts/overview.md) module.

You can create two types of Product Discounts:

- **Relative**: discounts the Product Price by a percentage, for example, 20% off for all scarves.
- **Absolute**: discounts the Product Price by a fixed amount, for example, get $30 off for a certain Product.

When you create, update, or delete a Product Discount, the Prices are updated in an [eventually consistent](/api/general-concepts.md#eventual-consistency) manner. Both Embedded Prices and Standalone Prices associated to a Product Variant are updated, regardless of the assigned Product price mode.

The time to update can vary—between a fraction of a second to several hours—depending on the following factors:

- The number of Products and their size
- The number of Products affected by Discount predicates
- The number of Prices to be updated

## Create a Product Discount

To create a Product Discount, do the following:

1. Go to **Discounts > Product discount list**.

2. Click **Add product discount**.

3. In the **General Information** section, follow these steps:

   1. For **Product discount name**, enter localized names for the Product Discount.

   2. Optional: For **Product discount description**, enter localized descriptions for the Product Discount.

   3. Optional: For **Product discount key**, enter a unique identifier value for the Product Discount.

   4. For **Discount type**, select how the discount applies.

   5. For **Discount value**, enter the discount value.

   6. For **Rank (sortOrder)**, enter the rank for the Product Discount.
      It determines the priority of the Product Discount amongst others; a larger value is ranked higher.

      Product Discounts do not stack. Only the highest ranked Product Discount applies to any Price of a Product Variant at any given time.

   7. Optional: For **Valid from**, select the date and time from when the Product Discount is valid.

   8. Optional: For **Valid until**, select the date and time until when the Product Discount is valid.

4. In the **Product discount conditions** section, define the criteria under which the discount should apply.

   - For **Eligibility criteria**, select if the items of specific or all products should be targeted.
     - If you selected **Apply to specific products**, for the **Where** field, select a rule.

       - If you select **all of these are true**, all rules defined must be true for the Product Discount to apply.
       - If you select **all of these are not true**, all rules defined must be false for the Product Discount to apply.
       - If you select **at least one of these are true**, any rule defined must be true for the Product Discount to apply.
       - If you select **at least one of these are not true**, any rule defined must be false for the Product Discount to apply.

   - Define a (predicate) condition or nested conditions. For more information about the syntax, see [Predicate syntax](/api/predicates/predicate-operators.md#predicate-syntax).

5. Click **Save**.

By default, new discounts are inactive and must be [activated](/merchant-center/product-discounts.md#activate-a-product-discount) to take effect.

## Activate a Product Discount

To activate a Product Discount, do the following:

1. Select the Discount you want to activate.
2. Click the **Status** toggle in the upper-right of the Discount.
3. Click **Activate discount** in the dialog.

## Duplicate a Product Discount

You can also duplicate an existing Product Discount to save time when setting up new Product Discounts. To duplicate a Product Discount, do the following:

1. Select the Discount you want to duplicate.
2. Click the **Duplicate Product discount** icon in the upper-right hand corner.
3. Click **Save**.

By default, duplicated discounts are inactive and must be [activated](/merchant-center/product-discounts.md#activate-a-product-discount) to take effect.

## Related pages

- [Area overview page with navigation](/merchant-center.md)
- [Previous page: Discounts overview](/merchant-center/discounts-overview.md)
- [Next page: Cart Discounts](/merchant-center/cart-discounts.md)