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# Spend tiered discounts benefit
Automatically reward members with larger discounts, or unlock access to another membership tier's benefits, as their spend increases during a calendar year or across their lifetime.
1. From the main menu, click **Benefits**.
2. Find the membership tier you want to add this benefit to and click **Edit Benefits**.
3. Find the Spend Tiered Discounts row and toggle the Spend Tiered Discounts benefit to Enabled.
4. Click **Edit**.
5. Enter a name for your spend tiered discount benefit, for example: Spend Tiered Discounts.
6. Enter a description, for example: Get bigger discounts as you spend more throughout the year.
7. Under Spend basis, choose whether tax and shipping should be included in the spend totals used to calculate each spend tier. Shopify store credit payments are automatically excluded, with no setting to enable. Memberply deducts the store credit paid from the eligible order amount after applying the membership-product, tax, and shipping rules, with a minimum of zero. For example, an eligible order amount of $200 paid with $50 in store credit contributes $150 towards the next tier.
8. Under Spend qualification period, choose:
* **Current calendar year** to reset qualifying spend each January in your Shopify store's timezone.
* **Lifetime spend** to keep all eligible historical and future purchases counting without an annual reset.
9. Under Spend lifecycle rules, optionally choose:
* **Count spending before joining or approval** to include eligible earlier orders from the selected qualification period when a member is added or a vetted applicant is approved. Memberply excludes the membership product purchase itself. Shopify access to older orders may limit how far Memberply can backfill.
* **Allow refunds to reduce an earned level** to move a customer down when refunds or cancellations take their spend below a threshold. Leave this disabled if a customer should keep the highest level reached during the selected qualification period.
10. Under Tiered discounts, click Add tier to create your first spend tier.
11. For each tier, enter:
* A tier name, for example: Silver or Gold.
* A Spend threshold amount. This is the total amount a member must spend to unlock that tier.
* Either:
* A discount type and discount value, or
* An Upgrade to membership tier selection if you want the member to gain access to another tier's benefits instead of receiving a discount at that spend level.
* An optional Minimum purchase amount if the discount should only apply when an order reaches a certain value.
12. Repeat the process and add more tiers as needed. Members will automatically receive the highest spend tier they have reached.
13. Click **Save**.
Please note:
* Member spend is tracked across all products during the selected calendar-year or lifetime qualification period.
* The store credit exclusion applies to newly recorded orders and newly imported historical orders. Existing recorded spend is not automatically recalculated. Legacy store-credit discount codes already reduce the discounted order amount and are not deducted again.
* Refunds that reverse an original store credit payment do not deduct that credit portion a second time. Refunds of money originally paid still reduce eligible spend, including when the refund is issued as new store credit.
* Order, refund, and cancellation adjustments are stored as separate records so totals can be rebuilt safely if webhook delivery is repeated or interrupted.
* Calendar-year periods follow the store's Shopify timezone. Memberply resets the current spend level at the year boundary without deleting prior-year history. Lifetime periods do not reset annually.
* Member Details shows **Lifetime store spend** from Shopify separately from **Eligible spend**. Eligible spend is the amount currently used by Spend Tiered Discounts, and the page identifies whether it uses the Current calendar year or Lifetime spend setting.
* If you configure a membership tier upgrade for a spend tier, members gain access to that tier's benefits immediately but continue to be billed on their current membership tier.
## Member spend progress
When this benefit is enabled and has at least one spend tier configured, active members automatically see **Your spend progress** in both the Shopify new customer account Member Hub and the legacy Memberply member dashboard. There is no extra setting to enable.
The card shows eligible spend, the qualification period, and how much more the member needs to spend to reach the next spend tier. For example, a member with $350 in eligible spend and a $500 next-tier threshold sees that they need to spend $150 more. At the highest spend tier, the card confirms that they have reached the highest level.
Progress uses the same eligible spend as tier qualification, including the store credit exclusion, tax and shipping settings, refunds, and the calendar-year or lifetime period. It does not use Shopify's lifetime store spend. If refunds cannot reduce an earned level, the next-tier target respects the level already earned. Calendar-year progress starts again in the new year, using the store's timezone.
Members with more than one active membership that has this benefit see a separate card for each. The card is hidden for disabled benefits and memberships with inactive, expired, or paused benefit access. Newly recorded orders and completed historical imports appear when members reload their dashboard.
