Stop Stacked Discounts From Pushing Shopify Orders Below Margin
A loyalty code, a sale, and free shipping can quietly combine into an order you lose money on. This workflow checks every order's true margin after all discounts and shipping, and flags — or holds — any order that dips below your floor before it ships.
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Trigger on every order
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Shopify Triggeronorders/createinspects each order as it lands. - 2
Compute true margin
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Codenode subtracts COGS, all discounts and shipping cost from revenue to get the real margin percentage. - 3
Check against your floor
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IFnode flags any order whose margin falls below your minimum (e.g. 10%). - 4
Hold or alert
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Shopifynode tags the order 'margin-review' and aSlackmessage flags it before it fulfills. - 5
Learn from it
Log flagged orders so you can spot which discount combinations keep causing losses and fix the codes.
Frequently asked questions
Will it delay legitimate orders?
It only flags orders below your floor — a tiny fraction. You can auto-approve above a small loss, or hold only true losses. Everything else fulfills normally.
Where does COGS come from?
From Shopify's cost-per-item field or a reference sheet. Even rough costs are enough to catch the orders that clearly lose money.
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