eBay: how to set up multi-buy discounts

About this article

This article describes how to configure a multi-buy discount on eBay.

Table of contents

Introduction

Limitations

Setup on ChannelEngine

Example

Introduction

eBay's multi-buy feature allows you to offer volume discounts to buyers and increase your average order value. Every volume discount is a combination of product quantity and percentage discount, where quantity acts as a minimum number of units that must be purchased to obtain a discount.

Limitations

• Multi-buy discounts are only available on eBay Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States.
• You can configure up to three volume discounts.

Setup on ChannelEngine

To activate multi-buy discounts, contact your customer success manager or a member of the Support team at ChannelEngine.

To set up multi-buy discount discounts, follow these steps:

1. Go to Mappings, Offer mappings on your eBay channel.

   

2. Locate the Map promotion attribute and set it to Yes for all products you want to enroll in the multi-buy program.

3. Enter your desired discount for each tier by using the following attributes:

   • Percentage discount for 2 or more items
   • Percentage discount for 3 or more items
   • Percentage discount for 4 or more items
   NB: the percentage must range between 1% and 79% and increase with each tier. Percentage discount attributes only accept numerical values – do not add the percentage symbol. E.g.: 20.
   NB: the Percentage discount is applied to the Price attribute. In pricing v2, the Price attribute is configured in Pricing, Price rules.
4. Click Save.
5. The discounts are exported in the next Export offers to channel task.

Example

On ChannelEngine

• The products shown above have a regular price of 18.90.
• When buyers purchase a quantity of two, they receive a 5% discount.
• When buyers purchase three or more products, they receive a 7% discount.
• There is no pricing tier for a quantity of four or more.

On eBay*

* This is not the same product used in the example above.