Conditional progressive percentage discount based on cart item count in Woocommerce

Question

I would like to have a conditional progressive discount based on number of items in cart. After you added 2 products to the cart, you get a discount. More products you add a

Answer 1

Update - October 2018 (code improved)

Yes its possible to use a trick, to achieve this. Normally for discounts on cart we use in WooCommerce coupons. Here coupons are not appropriated. I will use here a negative conditional fee, that becomes a discount.

The calculation:
— The item count is based on quantity by item and total of items in cart
— The percent is 0.05 (5%) and it grows with each additional item (as you asked)
— We use the discounted subtotal (to avoid adding multiple collapsing discounts made by coupons)

The code:

add_action( 'woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees', 'cart_progressive_discount', 50, 1 );
function cart_progressive_discount( $cart ) {
    if ( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) )
        return;

    // For 1 item (quantity 1) we EXIT;
    if( $cart->get_cart_contents_count() == 1 )
        return;

    ## ------ Settings below ------- ##

    $percent = 5; // Percent rate: Progressive discount by steps of 5%
    $max_percentage = 50; // 50% (so for 10 items as 5 x 10 = 50)
    $discount_text = __( 'Quantity discount', 'woocommerce' ); // Discount Text

    ## ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ##

    $cart_items_count = $cart->get_cart_contents_count();
    $cart_lines_total = $cart->get_subtotal() - $cart->get_discount_total();

    // Dynamic percentage calculation
    $percentage = $percent * ($cart_items_count - 1);

    // Progressive discount from 5% to 45% (Between 2 and 10 items)
    if( $percentage < $max_percentage ) {
        $discount_text .=  ' (' . $percentage . '%)';
        $discount = $cart_lines_total * $percentage / 100;
        $cart->add_fee( $discount_text, -$discount );
    }
    // Fixed discount at 50% (11 items and more)
    else {
        $discount_text .=  ' (' . $max_percentage . '%)';
        $discount = $cart_lines_total * $max_percentage / 100;
        $cart->add_fee( $discount_text, -$discount );
    }
}

Code goes in function.php file of your active child theme. Tested and works.

When using FEE API for discounts (a negative fee), taxes are always applied.

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References:

• WooCommerce - Adding shipping fee for free user plan
• WooCommerce - Make a set of coupons adding a fixed fee to an order
• WooCommerce class - WC_Cart - add_fee() method