Volume tiers & case multiples

Reward bulk buyers with a lower per-unit price, and force products to be bought by the carton — plus the storefront blocks that explain both.

Volume pricing

Whole cases and price basis

Minimum order quantities

Two related quantity rules, configured on the same cell:

• Volume tiers change the price as quantity climbs.

• Case multiples restrict which quantities are allowed at all.

Use either alone, or both together.

Volume tiers

A tier is a minimum quantity and a value. The tier applies from its minimum quantity until the next tier takes over.

• 1+ → $10.00 each

• 12+ → $9.00 each

• 24+ → $7.00 each

A cart with 18 units pays $9.00 each. At 24 it drops to $7.00.

Quantity in the cart	Price per unit	Product subtotal
11	$10.00	$110.00
12	$9.00	$108.00
18	$9.00	$162.00
24	$7.00	$168.00

The new tier applies to the whole quantity. For example, all 18 units cost $9 each. These are example prices with no case restriction.

Tiers are per tag and per variant, so Wholesale and Distributor can have entirely different ladders on the same product.

The value means whatever the cell's discount type says — a price, a percentage off, or an amount off.

Setting them up

In this example, an order of 25 or more qualifies for $1.50 per item. Each tier pairs a starting quantity with its price.

1. Open the price list editor and find the product. Use filters if the catalog is large.

2. Open the cell's settings for the tag you are pricing.

3. Choose the discount mode — Specific price, Percentage or Fixed amount.

4. Add tiers with Add tier, filling From qty and the value field for your chosen pricing mode.

5. Save.

Include a tier at quantity 1 if you want a price to apply below your first bulk break. Without one, small quantities have no regular tier price. A configured loose rate can still apply when case pricing allows it.

Case multiples

A case multiple forces the quantity to be a multiple of the case size. Set Case multiple to 12 and the buyer may order 12, 24, 36 — but not 10.

Enforcement happens at checkout: a cart that breaks the rule cannot complete. To tell the buyer before they reach checkout, add the Validation Message block to your product page (below).

A case multiple is valid on its own, with no pricing at all. That gives you carton-only ordering without any discount — a common requirement for products that physically ship by the case.

By default a case multiple is strict: quantities off the multiple are rejected. If you want buyers to be able to add loose units on top of full cases, and to price those units differently, you want progressive case multiples.

Minimum quantity and stock

A minimum quantity sets the smallest order you accept. With a case size, choose a minimum that is a whole multiple of that size; the editor starts at two cases because one case is already required by the case rule. A case multiple sets the allowed quantity steps. These are separate from the quantity at which a lower price begins.

For example, set a minimum of 12 and a case size of 6 on a selected variant. Six units fill one case but miss the minimum; 12 units satisfy both rules; 13 units break the whole-case rule. Save, then test those quantities and check that the buyer can correct an invalid order.

Case price and minimum quantity are separate: this example charges $36 per six-item case and requires at least 12 items.

Stock availability is handled by Shopify’s inventory and overselling settings. It is separate from Dollarlabs minimum quantities and case rules.

Showing tiers on the product page

Two theme app blocks make the rules visible. Both are added in Online Store → Themes → Customize, on your product template, via Add block → Apps.

Volume Tiers

Shows the applicable pricing tiers. Guests can see configured Default pricing when Hide price without login is off.

Setting	What it does	Default
Quantity label	Header of the quantity column	Quantity
Price label	Header of the price column	Price
Discount label	Header of the discount column	Discount
Quantity suffix	Appended to each quantity, e.g. 12+	+
Price suffix	Appended to each price, e.g. $9.00/ea	/ea
Discount suffix	Appended to each discount value	empty
Show discount	Whether to show the savings column at all	on
Discount type	Show savings as a fixed amount or a percentage	fixed
Case price column label	Header for prices entered per case	Per Case
Loose unit column label	Header for the loose-unit column, when loose pricing is in use	Loose unit
Hide price without login	Hide the table from logged-out visitors	on
Sign in message	Shown instead of the table when hidden	Sign in to see price
Hide App CSS	Drop our styles so yours can take over	off
CSS	Your own CSS for the block	—

Validation Message

Explains the case rule and warns when the quantity is invalid.

Setting	What it does	Default
Custom Validation Message	The message text, with variables	Built-in case or minimum-quantity message
Hide without login	Hide the message from logged-out visitors	off
Sign in message	Shown instead when hidden	Please sign in to see validation messages

Available variables: {productTitle}, {variantTitle}, {productQuantity}, {caseQuantity}, {minQuantity}, {tagName}. Include {caseQuantity} and {minQuantity} if your custom message covers both rules; otherwise the missing rule uses its built-in message.

Bulk setup by CSV

For more than a handful of products, do this in the spreadsheet. Tiers and case multiples live in the same cell as the price:

1:10;12:9;24:7;c:12

That reads as: $10 each from 1, $9 from 12, $7 from 24, and quantities must be multiples of 12.

The full grammar — including percentages, fixed amounts and loose pricing — is in CSV import & export.

Importing a cell containing just a plain number replaces everything that was in it. 9 clears any tiers and any case multiple on that cell and leaves a flat $9 price. To keep them, write the whole cell out.

Common problems

The tier table is empty on the product page. Check the price list status, the customer’s matching column and this variant’s tiers. For guests, check Hide price without login and whether Default pricing is configured.

Checkout rejects a quantity the buyer thinks is fine. A case multiple is set. Add the Validation Message block so the rule is visible on the product page, or switch to loose unit pricing if leftover units should be allowed.

Tiers show but the cart charges something else. Check for a second tag on the customer with a lower price — the lowest price wins.