Category Discount for WooCommerce
Powerful, automatic discounts for any product category — no coupons required
Category Discount for WooCommerce lets you build unlimited discount rules that apply directly to product prices across your entire store — shop pages, product pages, cart and checkout.
Customers see the discounted price everywhere with the original price crossed out, just like a native WooCommerce sale — without coupon codes, extra steps or checkout friction.
Combine category targeting, user roles, scheduling and cart conditions in a single rule, then control how rules stack with best-deal, first-wins or combine-all modes.
What problem does it solve?
Coupon codes leak, get shared on deal sites and add friction at checkout. WooCommerce doesn't ship with a way to automatically discount entire product categories, run role-based pricing promotions or schedule flash sales down to a daily time window. Category Discount for WooCommerce adds all of that in a single plugin.
Key features
- Automatic price adjustments site-wide
- Unlimited rules with full priority control
- Percentage off, fixed amount off, or fixed price override
- Maximum discount cap and price rounding (charm pricing)
- Target categories with subcategory include / exclude
- Exclude individual products, variations, or on-sale items
- Schedule by date, weekday, and daily time window
- User & role targeting (guests, logged-in, wholesale, etc.)
- Cart conditions: minimum subtotal or category quantity
- Stacking control: best deal, first wins, or combine all
- Custom sale badges with {percent} / {amount} placeholders
- Promotional messages and live countdown timer
- [cdwc_discounted_products] shortcode for sale grids
- Category quick-discount field on the Categories screen
- One-click enable, disable and duplicate rules
- Import / Export rules as JSON (merge or replace)
- Developer filters and public API (matcher, price engine, repository)
- WooCommerce HPOS compatible
How it works
Pick one or more product categories, choose a discount type (percentage, fixed amount, or fixed-price override), optionally add a schedule, user-role targeting or a cart condition, and the rule applies automatically to every matching product. Prices update site-wide, sale badges are replaced with your own text, and a live countdown timer appears on product pages when a rule has an end date.
How mixed carts are handled
When multiple rules match the same product you choose how they interact: best deal (lowest final price wins), first rule wins (highest priority only), or combine all (each rule discounts the result of the previous). Cart-condition rules apply as a separate line-item deduction and stack on top of price rules, so customers can benefit from both simultaneously.
Use cases
Use this plugin when you want to:
- Run a seasonal or Black Friday sale across selected categories
- Permanently discount clearance categories with a fixed-price override
- Reward wholesale or VIP roles with role-based category pricing
- Trigger cart-level rewards when a customer hits a subtotal or quantity threshold
- Schedule weekend-only or evening flash sales that expire automatically
- Show a countdown timer to create urgency on time-limited offers
- Publish a sale page using the [cdwc_discounted_products] shortcode
Often paired with our Role Based Pricing for WooCommerce.
Free vs Premium
- Unlimited rules with priority and stacking control
- Percentage, fixed-amount and fixed-price override discounts
- Maximum discount cap and charm-price rounding
- Category, subcategory and product-level exclusions
- Date, weekday and daily time-window scheduling
- User and role targeting, including guests-only
- Cart-level rewards (minimum subtotal or category quantity)
- Custom sale badges, promo messages and countdown timer
- [cdwc_discounted_products] shortcode and category quick-discount field
- JSON import / export (merge or replace)
- Developer filters, public API and HPOS compatibility
- Free forever — no subscription required
See it in action
A look at the admin experience and the customer-facing result.
Video walkthrough
Frequently asked questions
Do customers need a coupon code?+
No. Discounts are applied directly to prices everywhere in the store — shop, product pages, cart and checkout.
Does it work with variable products?+
Yes. Price ranges on variable products and individual variation prices are all updated correctly, and the variation price cache is invalidated automatically when rules change.
Can I run time-limited flash sales?+
Yes. Set a start and end date on any rule — you can also restrict it to specific weekdays and a daily time window (including overnight). Rules activate and expire in real time based on your site's timezone.
Can I apply a discount only to wholesale customers?+
Yes. Set the rule's user targeting to a specific role (e.g. Wholesale, Subscriber or any custom role) and it will only apply for logged-in users with that role.
What happens when a product matches multiple rules?+
You control this with the stacking mode: best deal (lowest price wins), first rule wins (highest priority only), or combine all (each rule discounts the previous result).
How do cart conditions work?+
A rule with a minimum cart subtotal or minimum category quantity applies as a line-item discount in the cart when the threshold is met, alongside any price-level rules.
Can I prevent double-discounting on products already on sale?+
Yes. Each rule has a skip products on native WooCommerce sale option to avoid stacking on top of existing sale prices.
Will my data be deleted if I uninstall the plugin?+
No — unless you explicitly enable the Remove data on uninstall option in settings.
Can I move rules from a staging site to production?+
Yes. Use Export to download all rules as a JSON file, then Import (merge or replace) on the target site.
Is it compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)?+
Yes. The plugin declares compatibility with WooCommerce HPOS and uses standard WooCommerce price filters for full compatibility across contexts.
Built and supported by Dreamfox Media
- Author
- Dreamfox Media
- Last updated
- 2025
- Guarantee
- Free plugin — download and use with no purchase required.
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