Advanced Automatic Discounts vs Sphior Margin: Discount Cap
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 9, 2026 for Advanced Automatic Discounts, Oct 15, 2026 for Sphior Margin.
The short answer
- Only Sphior Margin lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $49/month for Advanced Automatic Discounts and $29/month for Sphior Margin.
- Advanced Automatic Discounts lists 11 features Sphior Margin’s listing doesn’t mention, including BOGO, Campaigns, Checkout discounts.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Basic
- · 25 automatic & unlimited discount codes
- · For Shopify Basic, Grow, Advanced Store
- · Strikethrough pricing on product pages
- · Tiered, volume & Buy X Get Y discounts
Advanced
- · All features in Basic
- · For Shopify Plus Store
- · POS-only, pickup-only discounts
- · discount API for developers
Free
- · Discount cap
- · Measured ROI dashboard
Starter
- · Discount cap
- · Measured ROI dashboard
- · Payment & delivery rules
- · Validation rules
Growth
- · Estimated ROI
- · Everything in Starter
- · Sidekick access
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureSet exactly who qualifies—by customer tag, login status, market, pickup-only, or POS-only. Display strikethrough pricing on product pages so customers see the deal before they add to cart. Run one discount code with different rates per collection or product, without creating a new code for every campaign. Setup in minutes, works with most popular themes. When the sale ends, you'll know if it made money.
Checkout quietly leaks margin: promotions stack past your limit, reps over-discount, and loss-making orders slip through. Sphior Margin stops the bleeding with Shopify Functions — capping discounts so they never exceed your limit, blocking carts that break your rules, and controlling payment and delivery by order conditions.
- Boost loyalty: Target VIP customers with discounts based on tags & locations
- Save time: Create powerful vouchers & discounts with our intuitive interface
- Increase AOV: Apply different product discounts to products in a single code
- Enhance customer experience: Show discounts in cart, checkout & draft orders
- Discount cap: apply tiered discounts that never exceed the limit you set
- Validation: block orders by quantity, product combinations, or required fields
- Payment and delivery rules: hide, rename, or reorder options by order conditions
- Quantity-based volume discounts for B2B and wholesale buyers
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Advanced Automatic Discounts |  Sphior Margin |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | 1 | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Home & Garden | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Advanced Automatic Discounts | Sphior Margin |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.8 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 39 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Advanced Automatic Discounts | Sphior Margin |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $49/month | $29/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | 14 days |
| Plans listed | 2 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Advanced Automatic Discounts | Sphior Margin |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #198(ahead) | #1089 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Sep 6, 2024 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Shoppilot Apps | SPHIOR |
FAQ
Advanced Automatic Discounts and Sphior Margin: common questions
- Is Advanced Automatic Discounts or Sphior Margin cheaper?
- Only Sphior Margin lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $49/month for Advanced Automatic Discounts and $29/month for Sphior Margin. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Advanced Automatic Discounts lists 11 the others don’t mention, such as BOGO, Campaigns, Checkout discounts, Currency conversion. Sphior Margin lists 2 the others don’t mention, such as Bulk discounts, Tracking. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Nov 9, 2026 for Advanced Automatic Discounts, Oct 15, 2026 for Sphior Margin; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Nov 9, 2026 for Advanced Automatic Discounts, Oct 15, 2026 for Sphior Margin. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.