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Reward Bar & Milestone Tiers

Build a tiered reward ladder with a live progress bar — full setup with an example.

What is the reward bar?

The reward bar shows shoppers a live progress bar toward your reward tiers — for example "Spend $20 more to unlock free shipping!" — in the cart and/or on product pages. Because the next reward is always visible, it's the single strongest AOV lever in the app.

Reward types include: Free shipping, Free gift and Order discount.

Campaign setting

Creating a gift offer consists of 5 fundamental parts:

  • Basic information

  • Customer buys (main condition, sub-condition)

  • Customer gets

  • Works with other offers

  • Advanced settings (optional)

1. Basic information

1.1. Offer title

The offer name is for internal management only and won’t be visible to customers.

1.2. Start date/End date

  • Start time: The time that the offer starts working.

  • End time (optional): The time that the offer stops working.

2. Customer buys

2.1. Select the products that will trigger the offer
First, decide what the qualifying purchase applies to: All products, Collections, Product tags, or Specific products. This controls which items move the customer toward the reward.

  • All products: All products in cart will be counted toward the cart quantity/cart value condition.

  • Collections: Only products in the selected collections will be counted toward cart quantity/cart value condition.

  • Product tags: Only products with the chosen tags will be counted toward cart quantity/cart value condition.

  • Specific products: Only products selected will be counted toward cart quantity/cart value condition.

2.2. Sub conditions

Sub-conditions are optional to set up. Sub conditions can be combined together to target more specific customers.

Condition

What it checks

New customer

First-time vs. returning buyers.

Customer's order history

Total spent overall, spent on the last order, or number of orders placed. Also lets you limit the number of uses per customer.

Customer location

Selected countries — or exclude customers from selected locations.

Customer tags

Match Shopify customer tags; can exclude by tag, and treat logged-out visitors as having no tags.

Customer's status

Logged in / logged out.

Product price

Only items above/below a price qualify.

Subscription products

Only subscription or only one-time purchases.

Specific link address

The offer activates only for visitors arriving via a special shareable link (e.g. ?summersale2024) that the editor generates for you.

Markets

Selected Shopify Markets.

Note: Some sub-conditions rely on Shopify customer data and can only be evaluated when the customer is logged in. These sub conditions include New customer, Customer's order history, Customer tags.

If the customer is not logged in, these conditions may not be applied.

3. Customer gets

3.1. Gift method:

  • Multi-goal: a ladder of milestones including more than 1 reward, maximum 4 reward tiers. Tiers could be Free gift, Order discount or Free shipping.

  • Single goal: one reward only and specifically used for Free gift offer.

Then pick how progress is measured: Total cart value or Product quantity.

3.2. Milestones
Click the button "Add milestone" to create a new tier. In each milestone, input a milestone name for internal management and set the minimum cart value required for customers to unlock the milestone in the "Buy at least" field. Each tier must be greater than the previous.

  • Free shipping milestone

No additional configuration is required.

Customers automatically receive free shipping once their cart reaches the minimum value set for this milestone.

  • Order discount milestone

- Discount name: Enter the name of the discount. This name may be displayed to customers as a discount tag in the cart, checkout page and in the order details, helping customers identify the promotion.

- Choose how the discount is calculated and input the value:

Percentage – Deduct a percentage from the order total.

Fixed Amount – Deduct a fixed monetary amount from the order total.

  • Free gift milestone.

Select the product(s) customers will receive when they reach this milestone.

Click Browse to choose one or more gift products.

4. Works with other offers

Under Works with other offers, two controls decide the outcome:

  • Priority — a number. Assign a priority level to this offer to determine the order in which offers are applied. A lower number indicates a higher priority (for example, 1 takes precedence over 2 or 3). This setting is used when a customer qualifies for multiple offers at the same time. Give your most important offer priority 1.

  • Stop on Match — "Apply this campaign only and skip others if matched." When the campaign fires, no lower-priority campaign runs.

Example:
Campaign A (Priority 1): Buy $500 get free gift A

Campaign B (Priority 2): Buy 3 products get free gift B

Stop on Match is true -> If customer achieve $500 cart value, they will receive free gift A no matter whether they have more or less than 3 products in cart.

5. Advance settings

What happens when a customer passes several tiers? Choose the distribution rules below:

  • All eligible gifts — they receive every reward they've qualified for (at $120: free shipping + lip balm + 10% off). Generous, maximally motivating.

  • Nearest milestone gift only — only the highest tier reached (at $120: just the 10% off). Protects margin.

Display setting

1. Show on Included Page

Choose where the reward widget will be displayed on your store.

  • Show the reward widget on cart

Enable this option to display the reward widget on the cart page or cart drawer.

  • Show the reward widget on product pages

Enable this option to display the reward widget on product pages. Then, use the Display on dropdown to choose which product pages should show the widget:

- All product pages – Display the widget on every product page.

- Product specific page – Display the widget only on selected product pages.

- Products included in the offer – Display the widget only on product pages for products included in the campaign.

- All products in specific collections – Display the widget on product pages for products belonging to selected collections.

2. Milestone reward

Enable this option to show customers a text indicating how much more they need to spend to unlock the next milestone.

  • Customize the progress message displayed before reaching each milestone.

Use the {{amount}} variable to automatically display the remaining amount customers need to spend.

  • Customize the message shown when customers have unlocked all available milestones.

3. Offer claim behavior

Mode

What the customer experiences

Use when

Automatically add products to cart

The moment they qualify, all gift items appear in the cart at the discounted price, with a notification toast.

The gift has no variants (one tote bag, one sample sachet). Zero friction.

Give customers a choice of products to add

A "Congratulations!" pop-up opens on the cart page and they pick their gift — including the variant (size, color).

Gifts with variants, or when choosing between several gifts is part of the fun.

In choice mode you can also limit the total gifts added — e.g. the customer qualifies for 3 gift options but may add only 1.

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