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Getting started with Quantity Upsells

Relevant to: Shopify Checkout Integration Migrated Shopify Checkout Integration

Quantity upsells allow you to create flexible, incentive-based offers that encourage higher-value purchases while maintaining a smooth subscription experience. With quantity upsells, you can offer customers larger discounts the more they buy.

This guide explains how you can use Quantity Upsells to encourage customers to buy more and save.

Platform:

  • Shopify Checkout Integration
  • Migrated Shopify Checkout Integration

Before you start

Key features

Quantity Upsells uses both Product Subscription Plans and the Recharge Subscription Widget to let customers buy multiple quantities of a product at checkout, and receive a greater discount the more they buy.

For example, with Quantity Upsells, you could offer customers:

  • 15% off if they purchase a 1-month supply of products
  • 25% off if they purchase a 2-month supply of products
  • 30% off if they purchase a 3-month supply of products

With Quantity Upsells, you reward customers with larger incentives the more they spend.

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Offer customers flexible quantity-based upsells

Quantity Upsells let customers subscribe to multiple units of a product in a single plan, rather than purchasing each unit individually. You can configure discounts that scale with quantity, giving customers more value when they buy more.

Leverage smarter fulfillment and cost efficiency

By allowing customers to buy in larger quantities at longer intervals, you reduce the number of small, frequent shipments. This helps you optimize your fulfillment processes and shipping costs while maintaining consistent customer engagement.

Quantity upsells across the customer journey

Offer quantity-upsell plans for products at key touchpoints to increase retention and AOV. You can now surface these offers within cancellation prevention flows (as swap options), winback landing pages, and upcoming order emails (as cross-sell opportunities).

Set-up instructions

See How to let customers buy more and save with Quantity Upsells for detailed setup instructions.

Use cases

Learn how real merchants leverage quantity upsell discounts through the examples listed below:

Use case

Example
Encourage customers to stock up and save

Offer tiered discounts that reward customers for purchasing more units at once. For example:

  • Buy 1 unit every month – 10% off
  • Buy 2 units every 2 months – 15% off
  • Buy 3 units every 3 months – 20% off

This approach helps increase average order value while giving customers flexibility to order on their own replenishment cycle.
Simplify bulk purchasing for consumable products

For products customers use regularly, like supplements, pet food, or coffee, quantity upsells make it easy to order multiple units per delivery. 

Customers can get the right amount for their household or schedule, reducing the need for frequent reorders.

Considerations

Consider the following when using Quantity Upsells:

Consideration

Notes
Cart behavior for quantity upsells
  • When a customer adds a product with a QuantityUpsell plan to their cart, the Recharge Cart automatically disables quantity selectors. This prevents customers from manually changing the quantity and potentially bypassing your upsell discounts.
  • Recharge strongly recommends using the Recharge Cart for this reason. It also allows customers to:
    • Upgrade from a one-time purchase to a Quantity Upsell plan directly in the cart
    • Switch between a product’s Quantity Upsell plans in the cart
  • If you’re not using the Recharge Cart, you’ll need to ensure that quantities can’t be changed on Quantity upsell products. Work with a developer to disable or hide the quantity selector in your cart.
Quantity upsell plans override other subscription plan types
  • When you create a quantity upsell plan for a product, you cannot add other subscription plan types to that same product. This limitation helps prevent plan conflicts and ensures a clearer customer experience. To use a different subscription plan type, delete the Quantity Upsell plan first, then create the new plan. You can recreate the Quantity Upsell plan afterward if needed.
Widget usage for quantity upsells
  • You can continue using the standard Subscription Widget for products without upsell offers. For products that include quantity upsells, ensure both the Quantity Upsell Widget and the related plans are configured.
Prepaids
  • Quantity Upsells are not compatible with prepaid products
Bundles
Display order and badges in the storefront
  • You can reorder your Quantity Upsell plans by dragging and dropping them on the product page in Recharge. The storefront will update within a few minutes.
  • Keep in mind:
    • The “Recommended” badge (from the default widget) appears on the first plan in the sort order
    • The “Best Value” badge appears on the second plan in the sort order.
Quantity upsells compatibility limitations
Dynamic pricing
  • You cannot enable dynamic pricing and quantity upsell plans at the same time. When you activate a quantity upsell plan, Recharge automatically disables dynamic pricing. You cannot re-enable dynamic pricing until you remove the quantity upsell plan.
Updating existing subscriptions
  • You cannot convert existing subscriptions from a standard subscription plan to a quantity upsell plan. 
  • To update these subscriptions, perform a bulk update that adjusts both the subscription quantity and the recurring price. Set the recurring price as the per-unit price to align with the quantity upsell plan pricing structure.
Third-party widgets

  • If you’re using a custom or third-party subscription widget instead of the Recharge Subscription Widget, you’ll need to ensure the widget reads the product quantity associated with each selling plan. 

  • For detailed implementation guidance, see Using Quantity Upsells with custom widgets.
Custom CSS
  • The widget supports custom CSS. In the widget customizer, select Edit styles, then scroll to Advanced: enter custom CSS to add your custom code.

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