Set up the creator offer once, then give each creator their own code. With OneCode: Stackable Discounts, one discount holds 10% off the order and free shipping, and you add codes such as ANNA10 and JOE10 to it as bulk codes. Every code gives the same offer, and the bulk codes page shows how many times each code has been used, so you can see which creators drive sales.

Make the 10% an order discount, not a product discount. Each item gets only one product discount, so during a 20% sitewide sale a 10% product code adds nothing: the sale already saves more on every item. An order discount comes off after product discounts, so the creator’s 10% still applies on top of the sale price.

  • During a 20% sale, a $100 shirt costs $80. ANNA10 takes 10% off the order ($8), so the customer pays $72 with free shipping.
  • Outside a sale, ANNA10 takes $10 off a $100 cart, so the customer pays $90 with free shipping.

An automatic Summer sale discount takes a $100 shirt to $80, then ANNA10 takes $8 off the order, shipping is free, and the total is $72

Set it up

  1. Click Create discount and enter your first creator’s code, for example ANNA10.
  2. Click Add Discount Type, set Discount Type to Order Discount, and enter 10 in Percentage.
  3. Click Add Discount Type, set Discount Type to Shipping Discount, and keep Free Shipping.
  4. In Combinations, keep Product discounts ticked, and Shipping discounts too if your sale includes free shipping. Leave Maximum discount uses unticked so each creator’s code can be used as many times as their audience likes.
  5. Click Save discount.
  6. In the Bulk Discount Codes card, click Create Bulk Codes, then Import CSV. Upload a .csv or .txt file with one code per line, such as JOE10 and MIA10. You can import up to 10,000 codes at a time.
  7. Open your sale discount and allow it to combine with Order discounts and Shipping discounts. For a Shopify discount, do this on Shopify’s Discounts page. For a OneCode discount, do it in OneCode. If only one side allows combining, the customer can’t use both.

Full steps: an influencer code that still works during a sitewide sale and bulk unique codes.

The Bulk Code Creation page, with Import CSV and Generate Codes buttons, a list of codes, and the number of uses for each code

Every code on one discount gives the same offer. If one creator needs a different rate, such as 15%, create a separate discount for them.

To make free shipping start at a minimum spend, add the condition Cart Subtotal, Greater than or equal to, 50 to the shipping discount.

If your sale also gives free shipping, the customer simply gets free shipping. Shopify applies one shipping discount per order across separate discounts.

The brief you send each creator

“Your code is ANNA10. It takes 10% off the whole order, after any sale prices, and shipping is free. It works during our sales and outside them.”

If you set an end date on the discount, add it to the brief. The end date applies to every creator’s code on that discount.

For Black Friday, set this up the week before the sale. See Black Friday on one Shopify code.

OneCode costs $9.90 USD every 30 days after a 7-day free trial, billed by Shopify. You can install it from the Shopify App Store.