Discount amounts

Discount amounts can be present for items, orders, and units:

  • Item discount amount is the discount amount that is applied to all units that are associated with a single item within a single transaction.

  • Order discount amount is the total discount amount that is applied to the entire order.

  • Unit discount amount is the discount amount that is applied to a single unit of one item.

You can access discount amount attributes directly from the Segment Editor. To add these attributes to your segments, To add these attributes to your segment, click Add condition and then Add attribute. Select the Unified Itemized Transactions table (for Item Discount Amount and Unit Discount Amount) or the Unified Transactions table (for Order Discount Amount), apply a condition, and then specify a value.

Available conditions

The following table lists the conditions that are available to these attributes.

Note

These attributes have a Decimal data type. All Decimal data types share the same set of conditions. Recommended conditions for this attribute are identified with “ More useful” and conditions with more limited use cases are identified with “ Less useful”.

Condition

Description

is

Less useful

Returns a specific discount amount, such as “4.25”, “12.00”, or “38.50”.

Tip

Use the following conditions to return a range of discount amounts instead of a specific discount amount: is between, is greater than, is greater than or equal to, is less than, and is less than or equal to.

is between

More useful

Returns a range of discount amounts that are between the specified discount amounts.

is greater than

More useful

Returns discount amounts that are greater than the specified discount amount.

is greater than or equal to

More useful

Returns discount amounts that are greater than or equal to the specified discount amount.

is in list

Less useful

Avoid using the is in list condition; individual discount amounts are not typically made available in a list.

is less than

More useful

Returns discount amounts that are less than the specified discount amount.

is less than or equal to

More useful

Returns discount amounts that are less than or equal to the specified discount amount.

is not

Less useful

Avoid using the is not condition.

For example, if you specified “11.99” then any discount amounts less than or equal to “11.98” and any discount amounts greater than or equal to “12.00” would be returned.

is not between

Less useful

Discovers outlier discount amounts.

For example, if most of your discount amounts are between “11.99” and “82.99”, use “11.99” and “82.99” to return discount amounts that were less than and greater than those values.

is not in list

Less useful

Avoid using the is not in list condition when individual profit amounts are not made available as a list.

is not NULL

Returns customer records that have a value, such as “4.99”, “5.99”, and “27.22”, but also “ “ (a space) and “0” (zero). If the record has any value it will be returned.

is NULL

Returns customer records that do not have a value.