Why isn’t my discount showing up right away?
If you’re using our ADU app to automatically apply a Custom deal or Shopify discount code, but you don’t see the discount label or pricing update in your cart drawer or cart page immediately, this is typically due to how your theme handles cart rendering and refresh behavior.
Our app works behind the scenes to apply Shopify-native discount codes—but in order for the discount label or updated pricing to visibly appear in the cart interface, the cart itself needs to dynamically refresh or re-render after changes are made.
Refresh Mechanism: What It Means and Why It Matters
Shopify themes vary in how they manage cart updates:
✅ Some themes include a built-in refresh mechanism (especially for cart drawers), meaning they automatically re-render the cart when the product or price changes. This allows the discount label or price adjustment to appear instantly, without any extra steps.
❌ Other themes do not include this mechanism, so even if the discount has been successfully applied in the background, the cart drawer or page won’t visually update right away. In these cases, customers might not see the discount unless they:
Manually refresh the page, or
Navigate to checkout and then return to the cart
This limitation is entirely related to how the Shopify theme and its cart logic are built—it’s not something controlled directly by the ADU app.