As part of Meadow’s new Discounts system, “Pick Biggest” ensures your customers always receive the best possible deal available on their order. It’s designed to automatically calculate which combination of eligible discounts results in the largest savings — so your team doesn’t have to manually compare or override deals at checkout.
This helps simplify the budtender experience, speed up transactions, and create consistent, transparent pricing for customers.
How “Pick Biggest” Works
When multiple discounts could apply to the same items or order, Meadow’s engine evaluates all eligible options and applies the one that provides the maximum benefit to the customer.
The system calculates all valid combinations across Product, BOGO, Line Item and Order discounts.
It applies the most valuable discount while respecting stacking rules and eligibility conditions you’ve set (tags, categories, order type, etc.).
This ensures fairness to the customer and consistency across your entire operation.
In short: no more confusion about which deal wins. Meadow does the math for you.
How to Limit or Control This Behavior
While “Pick Biggest” provides a great customer experience, some retailers may prefer tighter control — especially in situations like equal or lesser value BOGOs or promotions on premium tiers. Here are several ways to manage that directly in Admin:
1. Use price boundaries to mimic “equal or lesser value” logic.
You can use a price minimum for the Trigger and a price maximum for the Reward to ensure only lower-priced or similarly priced items qualify for the discount.
Example: Set the trigger price minimum to $50 and the reward price maximum to $50 to ensure “Buy One, Get One of Equal or Lesser Value.”
Here's a BOGO on the entire Flower Category. Without these restrictions set, Meadow will discount the highest valued item in the cart. It's important to use settings or specific controls to tell the system exactly what to discount and when.
2. Apply “On Sale” exclusions.
Exclude items already on sale from being eligible as Reward items to prevent double dipping between promotions. Learn more about Stacking Prevention here.
3. Use tags or subcategories for more control.
Apply custom tags such as “Top Shelf,” “Popular,” or “Premium” to restrict which products can be discounted or included as rewards.
This approach is ideal if you want to limit deals to specific groups of products without relying solely on pricing rules.
4. Stack restrictions strategically.
Combine these parameters (price, tag, and category rules) to fine-tune which items qualify for BOGO or bundled offers — keeping control over margin while still providing value to your customers.
Takeaway
“Pick Biggest” ensures every customer gets the best possible deal — automatically and transparently. But when your business needs more control, you have the flexibility to define the limits.
By combining price thresholds, tags, and exclusions, you can mirror traditional “equal or lesser value” logic and prevent discount stacking that eats into profit — all while maintaining the seamless checkout experience that makes Meadow’s new Discounts system shine.
If a discount is not applying the way you expect it to, you can opt to use Line Item Discounts instead, set to apply manually, to rely on your staff to discount the appropriate item.