Discount display

These settings control how a reduced price is presented, everywhere one appears: product cards, product pages, featured products and quick view.

They govern presentation only. The discounts themselves are created under Shopify admin > Discounts, or by setting a compare-at price on a variant.

Settings

• Show discount badge. Shows the discount badge wherever a reduced price appears. Default: on. Strikethrough prices still show when the badge is hidden. On product cards, turning it off empties the badge slot altogether, so promotion labels, tag badges and the new badge go too.

• Badge label format. How discount badges are written on product cards, product pages, and featured products. Default: Minus percentage.

  Option	Reads as
  Minus percentage	-20%
  Percentage off	20% OFF
  Save percentage	SAVE 20%
  Save amount	SAVE $12.00

  When a product’s variants are discounted by different amounts, the badge on its card reads Up to followed by the largest of them, in whichever format you chose.

• Minimum discount to show badge. Discounts below this percentage don’t show a badge; the strikethrough price still appears. Range: 0% to 50%. Default: 0%, meaning every discount gets a badge.
• Badge background color. Defaults to the text color of the active color scheme. Set a color here to override it wherever the badge appears.
• Badge text color. Defaults to the surface color of the active color scheme. Keep a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 against the badge background.
• Use a promotion label from product metafields. Default: off. A product’s promotion label replaces its sale badge, for offers set up outside Shopify discounts.

Where the badge sits, its font, case and corner radius are set under Badges.

Promotion labels from metafields

With Use a promotion label from product metafields on, the theme reads two metafields per product:

Metafield	Type	Purpose
pave.promo_label	Single line text	The label to show instead of the sale badge
pave.promo_percent	Number	An optional percentage to include in the label

Define them once under Shopify admin > Settings > Metafields and metaobjects > Products, then fill them in per product.

This is for offers Shopify’s discount engine doesn’t model: a bundle handled by an app, a members’ price, a seasonal promotion run outside Shopify. A product with a promotion label set shows that label in place of any other badge.

Which badge wins

A product card shows one badge at a time. When more than one applies, the first in this order wins:

1. A promotion label from the product’s metafields, when the setting above is on.
2. A tag badge, from Tag badges under Badges.
3. The sale badge, when the discount clears Minimum discount to show badge.
4. The new badge, from Days to show the new badge under Product cards.

Tips

• Set a minimum threshold. A -3% badge draws attention to how small the saving is. Somewhere between 10% and 15% is where a badge starts to earn its space.
• Leave the badge colors empty unless you have to change them. Empty means the badge follows each section’s color scheme, so it stays legible when a section is dark and when it is light. A fixed color is fixed everywhere, including on the scheme where it clashes.
• If you do set them, check the contrast. 4.5:1 between badge text and badge background. A red badge with white text often lands just under.
• Hiding the badge doesn’t hide the discount. The compare-at price still shows struck through. Turning the badge off makes a store read quieter, not cheaper.