Spend-and-earn gifts and qualifying-purchase gifts were common Shopify Script Editor builds — a shopper hits a spend amount, or adds the right product, and a specific gift item rings up free. Here's the honest, no-code way to rebuild that logic on Shopify Functions in 2026 — including exactly how the gift has to get into the cart in the first place.
Set a spend threshold or a qualifying product and pick the gift item in plain form fields. No Ruby, no Script Editor, nothing to deploy.
Scripts were Shopify Plus-only. Scriptly's Functions-based rules run on every Shopify plan.
Build it, preview it in the simulator with the gift already in the cart, switch it on. The rule then zeroes the gift's price automatically.
Build a test cart with the gift item already in it, at the qualifying spend, and Scriptly's simulator shows precisely what the gift line will cost — nothing touches real checkout until you've watched the rule work.
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The real Scriptly simulator — test any rule against a sample cart before you enable it.
Gift with purchase — sometimes called a spend-and-get promo or a qualifying-purchase gift — was another common Script Editor build, and it's a different mechanic from a straight BOGO deal (buy one, get the identical item free; see our Shopify BOGO app guide if that's what you actually need). A gift-with-purchase promo hands the shopper a specific, often unrelated item — a tote, a sample-size product, a limited pouch — once the cart earns it, either by hitting a spend threshold (the same idea as setting a free-shipping-over-an-amount threshold, just with a gift instead of shipping) or by containing a qualifying product. Typical reasons stores built this:
"Spend $75, get a free tote" nudges a shopper sitting at $60 to add one more item, without running a blanket sitewide sale that discounts orders that were already going to happen.
Give away a product you want shoppers to try — a new scent, a companion accessory, overstock — as the gift, driving trial and awareness without discounting the rest of the catalog alongside it.
A gift at a spend tier feels like a perk rather than a markdown, which suits brands that don't want to be seen running constant percentage-off sales.
Replace a one-off manual discount-code promotion with a standing rule that only hands out the gift once a shopper actually earns it — no code for them to remember or type.
None of that logic survived June 30, 2026. Shopify stopped executing every Script Editor script platform-wide — as we cover in detail here — and gift-with-purchase Scripts went dark along with every other kind. Scriptly rebuilds the same spend-or-qualify-to-earn-a-gift logic as a no-code rule on Shopify Functions, with one honest caveat worth understanding before you build it: the gift itself still has to land in the cart (more on that below). If you're also running a volume promo alongside your gift, see our tiered quantity discount guide.
The rule comes down to a qualifying condition and a gift product, not a script. None of it requires touching code or waiting on a developer — but step four below is the one honest mechanic worth reading closely.
Start from Scriptly's rule builder.
Define what unlocks the gift — a minimum cart subtotal (spend $75 or more) or the presence of a specific qualifying product.
Pick the exact product, and variant if it has one, that becomes the free item once the condition is met.
Scriptly's rule zeroes the gift line's price once the cart qualifies — but the gift has to already be sitting in the cart as a line item. Shopify Functions can discount a line that's already there; they can't reach into a shopper's cart and add a product that isn't. So pair the rule with a way for the gift to actually get added — a cart-drawer button, a promo landing page, or a cart-upsell app — and Scriptly makes sure that line rings up free the moment the condition is met.
Build a test cart with the gift item included and confirm its price drops to $0.00 exactly when the condition is met.
It goes live as a Shopify Function, zeroing the gift's price automatically at checkout once qualified — no discount code for the customer to enter.
Drag the merchandise subtotal to watch a spend $75+, get the tote free rule reprice the cart in real time — the exact same math Scriptly runs at checkout, assuming the gift is already sitting in the cart.
Illustrative example. Below $75 the gift stays full price — no code, no discount code to type.
None of this is a hidden catch — it's the honest shape of what a checkout discount Function can and can't do. Getting the gift into the cart is on your theme or a cart app; making it free once it's there is what Scriptly handles.
If you still have the Ruby from your old gift-with-purchase or spend-threshold Script, you don't have to rebuild the logic by hand. Paste it into Scriptly's AI Script importer, and it reads the code once — it never executes your Ruby anywhere — to identify the qualifying condition and the gift product it discounted, then maps it to the free-gift rule template. You'll see a confidence score and the exact source lines Scriptly matched, and nothing goes live until you review and approve the mapped rule in the simulator.
One thing the importer can't recover: if your original Script used a cart transform to literally add the gift line for the customer, that add-to-cart behavior doesn't carry over automatically, because Functions discount lines rather than injecting them (see above). You'll still need a cart-drawer button, landing page, or upsell app to get the gift into the cart — Scriptly picks up from there and makes it free. If you no longer have the original code at all, skip the importer and fill in the free-gift template directly; see our broader Shopify Scripts replacement guide or the migration walkthrough for how the rest of the Script-to-Functions move works.
A promo where a shopper earns a specific free item — not a discount code — once their cart meets a condition, usually a minimum spend or a qualifying product. It's different from BOGO, where the free item is the same product as the one purchased; see our Shopify BOGO app guide for that case.
No. Shopify Functions can only discount a line that's already in the cart down to $0.00 — they can't add a new product to it. The gift item needs to be in the cart first, through a cart-drawer button, a landing page, or an upsell app; Scriptly's rule is what makes that line free once your spend or purchase condition is met.
Set a minimum cart subtotal as the rule's qualifying condition — for example, spend $75 or more. Once the subtotal reaches that amount, the gift line's price drops to $0.00 automatically.
Yes. Scope the condition to a qualifying product instead of a subtotal, so shoppers unlock the gift only when a particular item — not just any $75 of merchandise — is in the cart.
Not in a single rule yet. Each spend tier and its gift needs its own Scriptly rule, the same as tiered quantity discounts.
No. Scripts were a Shopify Plus-only feature, but Scriptly's Functions-based rules work on any Shopify plan.
Set the spend threshold, pick the gift, and preview it in the simulator — live at checkout in minutes, no code and no waiting on a developer.
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