---
title: "Quantity discounts for footwear brands"
description: "Quantity breaks for footwear brands, from 5% to 15% off each unit, priced by the margin engine on sourced costs, with the lift each tier needs."
url: https://offersuite.io/playbooks/quantity-discounts-for-footwear-brands
updated: 2026-10-13
---

# Quantity discounts for footwear brands

Quantity breaks for footwear brands, from 5% to 15% off each unit, priced by the margin engine on sourced costs, with the lift each tier needs.

### 1 unit

Revenue $109.29 to contribution margin $10.41 (9.5%)

Revenue

$109.29

Cost of goods

−$59.00

Pick and pack

−$3.20

Shipping label

−$12.12

Card fee per order

−$0.30

Refunds

−$21.09

Card processing

−$3.17

Contribution margin

$10.41

2 declared kinds cost nothing on this option

### 4 units, 15% off each

Revenue $349.29 to contribution margin $13.00 (3.7%)

Revenue

$349.29

Cost of goods

−$236.00

Pick and pack

−$3.20

Extra picks

−$1.44

Shipping label

−$17.81

Card fee per order

−$0.30

Refunds

−$67.41

Card processing

−$10.13

Contribution margin

$13.00

1 declared kind costs nothing on this option

Each tier, shipping charged, per order

| Option | Customer pays | Shipping charged | Costs | Margin | Margin % | Conversion against 1 unit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 unit | $100.00 | $9.29 | $98.88 | $10.41 | 9.5% | — |
| 2 units, 5% off each | $190.00 | $9.29 | $180.75 | $18.54 | 9.3% | can lose 43.9% |
| 3 units, 10% off each | $270.00 | $9.29 | $260.00 | $19.29 | 6.9% | can lose 46.0% |
| 4 units, 15% off each | $340.00 | $9.29 | $336.29 | $13.00 | 3.7% | can lose 19.9% |

Every figure is computed by the margin engine in Offer Suite's own code, in whole cents, from the costs below.

## What the numbers say

Quantity breaks take a larger share off every unit as the quantity grows: 5% off each for two, 10% for three, 15% for four. Shipping is charged at $9.29, the 1 lb label passed through, so the offer's cost is the discount alone.

One unit keeps $10.41. Four at 15% off keep $13.00, 3.7% of what the customer pays: the four units share one pick-and-pack fee and one parcel, and the label for four weighs in at $17.81.

Against the single, each tier 2 units can lose 43.9%, 3 units can lose 46.0%, 4 units can lose 19.9% of conversion per visitor. Quantity breaks work when they move buyers up a tier, not when they discount the buyers who would have bought four anyway.

## The cost structure, and where it comes from

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Price | $100.00, a pair of sneakers. [Allbirds, Men's Tree Runner, read 13 October 2026](https://www.allbirds.com/products/mens-tree-runners) |
| Unit cost | $59.00. From the income statement: revenue $152.5 million, gross profit $62.6 million, a gross margin of 41.0%. [Allbirds (Smartbird, Inc.), annual report (Form 10-K) for the year ended 2025-12-31, read 13 October 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653909/000162828026022192/bird-20251231.htm) |
| Pick and pack | $3.20 per order and $0.48 for each extra item. [Fulfill.com, 3PL pricing benchmarks (The Fulfillment Advisor 2025 survey of 600+ warehouses), read 23 September 2026](https://www.fulfill.com/3pl-pricing) |
| Shipping label | USPS Ground Advantage, commercial, Zone 5, by weight rounded up to the pound: 1 lb $9.29 · 2 lb $10.50 · 3 lb $12.12 · 4 lb $13.89 · 5 lb $14.53. Packed weight is an assumption: 2.5 lb per unit. [USPS Notice 123, USPS Ground Advantage Commercial, Zone 5 (effective 4 October 2026), read 13 October 2026](https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm) |
| Card fees | 2.9% + $0.30 per order: Shopify Payments' online rate for a standard card on the Basic plan in the United States. Higher plans pay a lower rate, and premium cards a higher one. [Shopify's pricing page for the United States, online standard card rates, read 12 October 2026](https://www.shopify.com/pricing) [Rates by plan and country](https://offersuite.io/fees/shopify-payments/united-states) |
| Refund reserve | 19.3%, NRF's estimate of online sales returned in 2025, across all categories. [NRF and Happy Returns, 2025 Retail Returns Landscape (15 October 2025), read 23 September 2026](https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/consumers-expected-to-return-nearly-850-billion-in-merchandise-in-2025) |
| Gift | A pair of socks: unit cost $8.85, retail $15.00. A $15 pair of socks, costed at Allbirds' reported gross margin. |

## The offer, as an agent writes it

An agent writes this offer as one document for Offer Suite's API, validated against the offer schema. Below is one option of it: what the buyer gets and the price it promises. Offer Suite checks with a real cart that checkout charges exactly the prices above.

**Show one option 4 options · excerpt**

```
{
  "key": "qty-2",
  "display": {
    "title": "2 units, 5% off each"
  },
  "lines": [
    {
      "role": "main",
      "quantity": 2,
      "purchase": {
        "type": "one_time"
      }
    }
  ],
  "pricing": {
    "promise": {
      "firstChargeCents": 19000,
      "renewalChargeCents": null
    }
  }
}
```

How Offer Suite validates, versions and publishes a document like this one: [offer documents](https://offersuite.io/features/offer-documents).

## Questions

### Are quantity discounts profitable for footwear brands?

On these costs one unit keeps $10.41 per order, two at 5% off each keep $18.54 and four at 15% off each keep $13.00. The tiers cost money only on buyers who would have bought the same quantity at full price.

### How much conversion do quantity breaks need for footwear brands?

Against one unit, per visitor: 2 units can lose 43.9%, 3 units can lose 46.0%, 4 units can lose 19.9%.

## See what your own offers earn.

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