How do you exclude products from a discount on Shopify?

Where does the exclusion go in a Shopify discount?

The exclusion lives in a collection, not in the discount. In Amount off products, the Applies to field offers Specific products or Specific collections, and none of the Help Center discount pages or changelog posts we read on November 4, 2026 describes a separate exclude field beside it.

Use Amount off products: Amount off orders covers the order as a whole. Free shipping is a separate question: excluding products from free shipping.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Discounts
2. Create discount
3. Amount off products

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How do you build a collection that leaves products out?

These steps join three Help Center pages and our test admin (November 9, 2026) into one procedure.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Products
2. Collections
3. Add collection

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1. Go to Products > Collections, click Add collection, and add the products that should get the discount, by hand or with conditions (Match any or Match all).
2. In the Products source, click Exclude. Use:
   • Add products for single items
   • Add condition for category, tag, type or vendor
   • the Products menu > Collection for a whole collection
   A source can exclude individual products or another collection, not both. Exclusions always override inclusions.
3. If the collection exists only for the discount, you can leave it unpublished from all sales channels via the channel selector in the same card as the collection's title.
4. Save and check the product list: in rare cases, Shopify notes, collections might contain the wrong products.
5. In the discount, select Specific collections under Applies to and add the collection.

What limits apply to excluded products?

• Collections need the Basic plan or higher, or the Agentic plan with an online store.
• Exclude can't filter by compare-at price or product status; for markdowns, see how to keep a discount code off sale items.
• A store can have at most 5 collections that exclude another collection; past that, exclude by product or condition.
• Each Products or Variants source in a collection can have up to 60 condition values, exclude conditions included.
• A discount code can apply to up to 100 specific customers, products and variants.