Test mode

Test mode lets you try out Discount Kit’s discounts on your store before subscribing. Create any discount type, enable test mode, and only customers tagged test will see and receive the discount. Your real customers are never affected.

How it works

1. Create a discount — choose any discount type and configure it as you normally would
2. Enable test mode — toggle test mode on in the discount settings
3. Tag a customer — add the test tag to a customer account in your Shopify admin
4. Log in and test — log in to your storefront as that customer and verify the discount applies

Note

Test mode discounts require the customer to be logged in with the test tag. Customers without the tag, and guests who are not logged in, will not see or receive the discount.

No subscription required

Test mode is available on all plans, including before you subscribe. This means you can fully verify that a discount works for your use case before committing to a plan.

Once you’re happy with the results, subscribe to a plan and then disable test mode to make the discount live for all eligible customers.

Tagging a customer for testing

In your Shopify admin:

1. Go to Customers
2. Select the customer you want to use for testing
3. In the Tags section, add the tag test
4. Save the customer

Storefront visibility

If you’re using Discount Kit Live to display discounts on your storefront, test mode discounts are automatically excluded from the max_reward_percent and max_reward_cents scalar metafields. This means your storefront badges and banners won’t show test discounts to regular customers.

If you’re working with the full discounts array, you can filter test mode discounts using the test field. See filtering test mode discounts for details.