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Discount allocation

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, discount allocation means: Dividing a discount amount among the items in an order for pricing, refunds or reporting.

In Turkish: indirimin kalemlere dağıtılması

How it is used

Use when an order-wide reduction must be assigned to individual lines; the allocation method affects each item's net amount.

Example sentences

  1. Discount allocation assigned 12 lira of the basket coupon to the returned notebook.

    The item's refund can reflect the saving already assigned to that line.

  2. Check the discount allocation when the item totals differ from the order summary.

    The reconciliation depends on how the shared discount is distributed.

Common collocations

  • discount allocation method
  • line-level discount allocation
  • discount allocation amount
  • discount codeA short code a customer types at checkout to get a lower price, a fixed amount off or free shipping.
  • refundMoney paid back to a customer, usually to the original payment method, after a return, a cancelled order or a problem with an item.

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