--- title: Discounts --- > Agent instructions: > **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown. > > - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version. > - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt). With the Kentico E-commerce Solution you can effectively motivate your on-line store [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/customers.md) to purchase [products](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products.md) in higher quantities by offering the customers various types of discounts. Discounting in Kentico thus gives you the opportunity to further increase your sales. For example, you can increase short-term sales, move out-of-date stock, reward your valuable clients, etc. You can achieve this by using flexible, time-limited, and effectively targeted discounts. ## Discounts on products - [Catalog discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-catalog-discounts.md) allow you to motive your selected customers to purchase more offered products. You can configure the system to apply catalog discounts only to products specified by rules (macro conditions). For example, you can provide discounts to all eligible customers who purchase any products by selected [manufacturers](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products/managing-manufacturers.md) such as Apple, Samsung, etc. - [Volume discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-volume-discounts.md) are applied if the customers purchase specified amounts of the products. The system automatically calculates and applies volume discounts during the [checkout process](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/configuring-your-store/checkout-process.md) when the customers add the respective amounts of product items to their shopping carts. You can set up multiple volume discount levels. This allows you to apply different discounts on different amounts of purchased product items. For example, you can provide a 3 % discount if the customers purchase at least three Adidas Trefoil T-shirts and a 5 % discount if they purchase at least five items of this product. - [Bundles](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products/managing-product-representations/managing-bundles.md) allow you to offer your customers multiple products of various kinds as single products for special discounted prices. For example, you can sell combinations of Reebok's T-shirts, shoes and caps together in bundles as single products. ## Discounts on orders - [Order discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-order-discounts.md) can be applied on your selected customers' whole shopping. You can configure the system to apply order discounts only if specified rules (macro conditions) are fulfilled. For example, you can provide discounts to all eligible customers who pay in Euro via the PayPal payment gateway. ## Free shipping - [Free shipping offers](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-free-shipping-offers.md) allow you to motive your selected customers by granting them free shipping. You can configure the system to apply free shipping offers only if specified rules (macro conditions) are fulfilled. For example, you can waive the shipping charges for all eligible customers who have their purchased products sent to Texas. ## Buy X Get Y discounts - [Buy X Get Y discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-buy-x-get-y-discounts.md) allow you to make discount with more complex combinations, typically, buy one product and get another one for free, buy five products and get one of them for free, buy any product from one department and get the cheapest product with 50% discount. ## Discount coupons The E-commerce Solution also features various types of [discount coupons](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-discount-coupons/working-with-product-coupons.md). These coupons can represent: - Virtual vouchers that your customers can redeem when purchasing selected products (product coupons). - Virtual vouchers that your customers can redeem to receive discounts on their whole shopping (order discounts). - Virtual vouchers that your customers can redeem to receive free shipping (free shipping offers). ## Discount statuses If you open the application of discounts or free shipping offers, you will see that the system displays for each listed offer its status: | Status | Description | | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Running | The discount is currently effective:
the discount is enabled in the system (the **Enabled** property is checked),
if duration is specified (the **Valid from**, **Valid to** properties), current time is inbetween duration boundaries. | | Scheduled | The discount is **not** currently effective:
the discount is enabled in the system,
the duration is specified but the period of validity has not started yet (the **Valid from** value is in the future). | | Finished | The discount is **not** currently effective:
the discount is enabled in the system,
the duration is specified but the period of validity has finished (the **Valid to** value is in the past). | | Incomplete | The discount is **not** currently effective:
the discount is enabled in the system,
settings of the duration have no effect,
you haven't made all steps which are needed, for example, you checked that coupons are used but you haven't generated any. | | Disabled | The discount is **not** currently effective:
the discount is not enabled in the system (the **Enabled** property is unchecked),
settings of the duration have no effect. |