Not every product should have the same minimum order amount. Some products are expensive to ship, difficult to handle, low-margin, fragile, bulky, or frequently returned. For those products, a product-specific minimum order amount can protect your margin without adding friction to every checkout.
Bony Checkout Rules helps Shopify merchants create minimum order amount rules that apply only when selected products or product types are in the cart.
When product-based minimum order rules make sense
Use product-specific thresholds when certain products create higher fulfillment costs than the rest of your catalog.
Common examples include:
- Bulky items that cost more to ship.
- Fragile products that require special packaging.
- Low-margin accessories.
- Temperature-sensitive products.
- Products with high return rates.
- Items sold in wholesale or case quantities.
Example rule
A store might create this rule:
- If cart contains a bulky product, require a $75 minimum order amount.
- If cart does not contain a bulky product, allow the normal checkout flow.
- If the customer is tagged as wholesale, require a $150 minimum order amount.
This keeps checkout flexible while protecting margin on expensive product groups.
Why this is better than a blanket rule
A storewide minimum order amount can reduce conversion for normal products. Product-specific rules are more precise. Customers buying standard items see fewer restrictions, while carts that create extra cost must meet a more profitable threshold.
How Bony Checkout Rules helps
Bony Checkout Rules can combine cart value with product, product type, customer, and location conditions. That means your minimum order amount can change depending on what the customer is buying.
Final recommendation
Use product-based minimum order amount rules when the cost problem is tied to specific products. It is a cleaner experience than forcing every customer into the same threshold.