Goal Order Discount

Give them a reason to round the order up.

8theme publishes no article for this booster, so how the discount reaches the cart is not among the things this page will tell you.

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A LUMÉ demo store, on its cart page. The cart holds two lines and two units: a Crossbody Bag at $45.00 with a quantity of one, and a Ribbed Beanie at $12.00. The Cart totals box on the right reads Subtotal $57.00, Delivery calculated at checkout, and Total $57.00; the masthead reads Order $57.00 and the cart badge reads 2. Above the items, where 8theme’s own illustration draws it, sits the card this page draws for SalesMax: a header band reading “Unlock more savings” with a badge reading “Almost there”, the line “Spend $60.00 for 5% off your order, or $80.00 for 10%”, and a rail of three rungs — 5% off at $60, 10% off at $80 and 15% off at $150, every one of them LUMÉ’s own example and none of them a SalesMax default. The rail is filled as far as $57.00 reaches and no rung is lit. The cart is $23.00 short of the $80.00 rung. A pointer crosses to the Crossbody Bag’s quantity stepper and presses the plus once. The quantity reads 2 while the line total still reads $45.00 and the badge still reads 2, because classic WooCommerce commits nothing until Update cart — and Update cart has just lit. The pointer presses it. The totals column dims for a moment the way WooCommerce dims it, then the Subtotal counts from $57.00 to $102.00 while the bag’s line total counts with it to $90.00, the badge steps to 3, and the ladder’s fill grows with the count, lighting the $60 rung and then the $80 rung as the cart passes each one. The counting stops, and for a beat nothing moves. Then a row appears inside the totals box, Goal discount, 10% over $80.00, minus $10.20, and the Total rolls in one movement from $102.00 to $91.80. The ladder’s border turns solid green, its badge flips to “10% off earned” and its line to “10% off — earned. $10.20 off this order”, the masthead follows the Total, and the right-hand figure, which had climbed to $102, settles at $91. The pointer travels into the totals column and rests on the discount row, because reading the reward on the order is the whole point of the booster, however it is drawn there. Nothing navigates, nothing floats over the page, no popup appears and nothing is added to any real cart: a quantity stepper and Update cart are the only controls touched, and the pointer never touches the ladder, because nothing published says whether a reward of this kind is claimed or applied on its own. After a pause the page is cut back to its opening state and the loop restarts; that cut is instant, never an animation, because a Total seen climbing back from $91.80 to $102.00 would stage a discount being taken away, which never happens here.

LUMÉ is a demo store; the prices are its catalogue’s.

▲ +18% avg. spend** Printed here because our own SalesMax landing card prints it — and it is the only place it comes from. Our own booster registry holds no figure at all for it, as it holds none for eight other boosters. The +18% traces to 8theme’s marketing page, whose sentence is “Tiered offers raise average spend by 18%”, credited by 8theme to Invesp and published with no measurement of its own — and the Invesp original could not be located. Read it as 8theme’s unsourced claim for offers of this type, not a study and not a promise. No per-booster reporting is documented, so your own number is yours to measure.

A LUMÉ demo store, on its cart page. The cart holds two lines and two units: a Crossbody Bag at $45.00 with a quantity of one, and a Ribbed Beanie at $12.00. The Cart totals box on the right reads Subtotal $57.00, Delivery calculated at checkout, and Total $57.00; the masthead reads Order $57.00 and the cart badge reads 2. Above the items, where 8theme’s own illustration draws it, sits the card this page draws for SalesMax: a header band reading “Unlock more savings” with a badge reading “Almost there”, the line “Spend $60.00 for 5% off your order, or $80.00 for 10%”, and a rail of three rungs — 5% off at $60, 10% off at $80 and 15% off at $150, every one of them LUMÉ’s own example and none of them a SalesMax default. The rail is filled as far as $57.00 reaches and no rung is lit. The cart is $23.00 short of the $80.00 rung. A pointer crosses to the Crossbody Bag’s quantity stepper and presses the plus once. The quantity reads 2 while the line total still reads $45.00 and the badge still reads 2, because classic WooCommerce commits nothing until Update cart — and Update cart has just lit. The pointer presses it. The totals column dims for a moment the way WooCommerce dims it, then the Subtotal counts from $57.00 to $102.00 while the bag’s line total counts with it to $90.00, the badge steps to 3, and the ladder’s fill grows with the count, lighting the $60 rung and then the $80 rung as the cart passes each one. The counting stops, and for a beat nothing moves. Then a row appears inside the totals box, Goal discount, 10% over $80.00, minus $10.20, and the Total rolls in one movement from $102.00 to $91.80. The ladder’s border turns solid green, its badge flips to “10% off earned” and its line to “10% off — earned. $10.20 off this order”, the masthead follows the Total, and the right-hand figure, which had climbed to $102, settles at $91. The pointer travels into the totals column and rests on the discount row, because reading the reward on the order is the whole point of the booster, however it is drawn there. Nothing navigates, nothing floats over the page, no popup appears and nothing is added to any real cart: a quantity stepper and Update cart are the only controls touched, and the pointer never touches the ladder, because nothing published says whether a reward of this kind is claimed or applied on its own. After a pause the page is cut back to its opening state and the loop restarts; that cut is instant, never an animation, because a Total seen climbing back from $91.80 to $102.00 would stage a discount being taken away, which never happens here.

Free Shipping Bar
Goal Order Discount Weighed against the cart — no source names a page
Checkout Offers

Where it shows

One picture, and no position list.

8theme draws it exactly once — cart page, above the items. A rendering, not a setting. So this section shows the states a goal card passes through instead.

What no source places, and this page therefore does not claim.

8theme ships this booster and documents none of it — the index declares 12 articles and this is not one of them, eight plausible URLs 404, and the marketing page names 17 boosters to the documentation’s 12. So no field name, default, option list, placement or FAQ answer here is read off a SalesMax source, because there is none. Two things this booster does have: 8theme’s name for it and ours are identical, and 8theme publishes one illustration of it — so everything drawn below is labelled with whose shape it is: that illustration’s, WooCommerce’s, LUMÉ’s, or ours where no source supplies a shape at all.

An absence of source, not a documented absence: boosters that have articles publish these lists in detail. Here there is nothing to read, so nothing below is asserted either way:

  • Which pages it renders on. No position picker, no page-type list, no shortcode.
  • Mini-cart, cart drawer, checkout. Never mentioned for this booster.
  • How many rungs a ladder holds, and what happens when two of them overlap.
  • What counts toward a rung — subtotal, total, tax, delivery, or a figure a coupon has already reduced.
  • Whether rungs stack once several are cleared, or only the highest one pays.
  • Any interface of its own. No source shows this booster’s card and none names a placement — the card is ours, and so is the choice to draw it here, though the position itself is the illustration’s; the cart table, Update cart and the totals box are WooCommerce’s — all but the Goal discount row inside that box, which is ours as well: nothing published says whether the reward arrives as a row a plugin names, as a WooCommerce coupon line, or as a total that is simply lower, let alone what the order calls it; the masthead and the three cart steps above them are LUMÉ’s.
  • What a goal is worth. In the demo the gap was $23.00, the bag that closed it cost $45.00 and $10.20 went back — a goal pays only while the item that closes it is worth more than the reward it unlocks.

The scenes draw a cart page for one reason: it is where 8theme’s own illustration draws it.

Drawn, not captured — LUMÉ demo store.

Templates & appearance

Two templates, never shown on this one.

The articles repeat one pair, Minimal and Colorful. The switch applies that pattern to the card 8theme’s illustration draws.

Template
Accent (preview)
Cart column, above the items

The math

The math, disclosed.

The gain is what the order grew by, minus what you gave back. Say 400 orders, 10 in 100 reach up, $25 more each, $10 back: 400 × 10% × ($25 − $10) = +$600/mo. Press the keys.

Monthly orders
400
Carts that reach up
10%
One reach-up adds
$25
You hand back
$10
Net order value example
kept on the carts that reached up

Settings

No SalesMax field has been published for this booster. Here is what that leaves.

Nothing published names a threshold, reward or message field for this booster’s own mechanic. The panel below is the suite-wide set, hedged as “most boosters” and confirmed for this booster nowhere.

Conditions and dates other articles

Tap the chips — the sentence rewrites itself. Every chip is a control the other boosters’ articles publish, hedged there as “most boosters”; none is confirmed for this booster.

Display conditions
Start / End date

What is on record
One illustration, and it is specific

8theme gives this booster its own rendering: a header band whose orange is the one colour anything on record names, a corner badge at the top right, an achieved message, and a rail of three milestones carrying different rewards, filled from the left as far as the cart has got. The rungs are named by reward and carry no amount — Free delivery, Free gift and 25% off, the only reward names it prints for this booster. All 17 have a distinct image; Free Gift’s matched its article. It is a rendering, not a screen.

A sibling article names a spend threshold

Free Gift’s article does describe a SalesMax spend threshold in words — the nearest a first-party source comes to this booster’s mechanic. It is a different booster with a different reward, so it names no field here, and the FAQ below shows the two documented siblings that answer it for themselves do not agree with each other on how a reward reaches the cart.

What no source publishes
The goal, and what counts toward it

Whether a rung is a subtotal, a total, a post-coupon figure or an item count; whether tax and delivery count; how currency and rounding behave; whether rungs are typed as amounts, ranges or rules. None of it is written down, here or for any booster.

The reward, and how it reaches the cart

Percentage, fixed amount, free product, free delivery — the illustration implies several; nothing lists them. Nor does anything say whether the discount is applied automatically or claimed, whether it arrives as a coupon, a fee line or a total filter, or what the order calls it. The two boosters that do answer that disagree; the FAQ quotes both.

Stacking, and the ladder’s limits

How many rungs are allowed, what two overlapping ones do, whether cleared rungs stack or only the highest pays, and how any of that meets WooCommerce coupons, sale prices or another booster. Our own registry already suppresses this card when Free Gift is shown — a reading of ours, not a rule.

Suite-wide, unverified here
Templates, conditions, dates

The articles repeat one set: Template Type with Minimal and Colorful, Display Conditions for time, products, categories and roles — hedged as “most boosters” — and Start / End date. Background, not a source here.

Before you switch it on
A four-line checklist — ours, not the vendor’s

No troubleshooting page exists, so this is written from the mechanic. Put a cart one cent under a rung and one cent over it. Read the order and the confirmation email, not just the cart. Add a coupon and see which number the rung tests. Then price the reward against the cheapest item that can clear the rung.

What is not measured

An Analytics section exists plugin-wide. Nothing booster-specific — no rung-clearing rate, no per-ladder reporting, no A/B split. Usage limits, translation, RTL and theme compatibility likewise.

FAQ

Questions merchants actually ask

What does Goal Order Discount actually do?

8theme gives it one heading — “Motivate Bigger Orders with Goal-Based Rewards” — one statistic, and one picture. The picture is the substance: a card carrying a rail of three milestones, each with its own reward, filled in from the left as far as the cart has got, and a message naming the reward just earned. Beyond that there is no article, so nothing on this page states how you set a goal, what a reward may be, or how many rungs a ladder holds. The “spend $80, get 10% off” on our own landing card is an example of the idea, written by us; it is not a default the plugin ships.

Where does it appear on my store?

Unpublished. 8theme’s marketing illustration draws it at the top of the cart column, above the items table, on the cart page — that is the only first-party depiction that exists, and it is a rendering rather than a screenshot of a setting. No position list, no page-type list, no mini-cart statement, no checkout statement and no shortcode has been published for this booster, unlike Free Gift, whose article names ten cart-and-checkout positions, six mini-cart positions and a shortcode. So the preview on this page draws the illustration’s position and says whose it is, the hero draws the same position, and so do the three scenes under “Where it shows”, so every place on this page agrees with it. That is a rendering, not a setting: no source publishes a position control, so none is offered here.

Does the discount apply on its own, or does the shopper claim it?

Not published, and the two documented boosters that answer it for themselves disagree — so neither can be borrowed. Free Gift states the gift is never added automatically and the customer presses a Claim Gift button. Buy more save more states its discount is applied automatically once the threshold is met. Which of those shapes this booster takes is unanswered, and so is everything downstream of it: whether the discount arrives as a real WooCommerce coupon, a negative fee line or a cart-total filter, what it is labelled on the order, and whether it survives into the confirmation email. Test it on a staging copy before a sale and read the order, not only the cart.

Can one ladder mix free shipping, a free gift and a percentage off?

8theme’s own illustration draws exactly that: three milestones on one rail, labelled Free delivery, Free gift and 25% off. That is fair evidence of the shape and no evidence at all of the settings. Whether rungs stack once several are cleared or only the highest one pays, whether the reward list really includes a fixed amount, whether a percentage comes off the whole order or only eligible items, whether there is a cap, and how any of it meets WooCommerce coupons and sale prices — none of that is published. The ladder drawn on this page is LUMÉ’s and it applies one rung at a time, because that is the conservative reading and not because a source says so.

Why is there no documentation for this booster?

We do not know, and we are not going to invent a reason. The facts are these: 8theme’s booster documentation index declares twelve articles and this is not among them; the string “goal” appears nowhere in that index or on the documentation home page; eight plausible article URLs return 404; and the “Learn More” button beside the booster on 8theme’s own marketing page lands on the documentation root rather than on an article. That marketing page names seventeen boosters, so five have no article and this is one of them, alongside Stock Scarcity and Free Shipping. It is not in the page’s clearly labelled Coming Soon block, so it ships. One thing this booster does have that those two do not: 8theme’s name for it and ours are identical, so there is no renaming to disclose here.

Works well with

Other ways to make the bigger basket worth it.

This card pays for a bigger order out of that same order. The row starts with the boosters that reward spend or quantity, then runs through the rest of the suite.

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Cart Page Upsells

Small upgrades and companion products, one tap from the cart summary.

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Frequently Bought Together

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Smart Recommendations

Condition-based suggestions by category, cart contents, order history or totals.

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Product Add-Ons

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Upsell Popups

A relevant offer the moment something is added to cart — one popup, not a maze.

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Stock Scarcity

Live inventory counts that create honest urgency — real stock levels, never fabricated.

▲ +17% conversions*Learn more

Live Sales Notifications

Subtle purchase notifications — from your real recent orders, or from name lists you write.

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Cart Add-ons

Offers shown right in the cart, on top of what the shopper already has.

▲ +10–30% revenue*Learn more

Checkout Offers

A last relevant order bump right before payment — accepted with one checkbox.

▲ +35% conversions*Learn more

One-Click Double Order

Let buyers duplicate their purchase with a single click — popular for consumables and gifts.

▲ +73% uptake*Learn more

Thank You Page Offers

Upsells on the order-confirmation page, where trust is already established.

▲ up to 3.1% conversion*Learn more

Post-Purchase Offers

One-click additions right after “Place order” — no re-entering payment details.

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Next Order Coupon

A unique coupon — the reason they come back.

▲ +25% repeat orders*Learn more

* Industry benchmarks and vendor-observed averages for each booster type — not a guarantee.

Goal Order Discount

A number worth reaching for.

Tell the cart what the next tier is worth — and every other booster in the suite with it, on every plan, no feature gating, ever.

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