Settings

The Settings tab is a top-level tab in the Dino Discounts admin, sitting between Coupons and Countries & Zones. It contains controls that affect how the entire discount engine behaves — these are global and apply across all discounts.

Available settings

Maximum Discount Cap

A safety ceiling on the total discount any cart can receive, expressed as a percentage of the cart subtotal at full price.

Setting	Description
Enable/disable	Toggle the cap on or off
Maximum %	The ceiling — e.g. 40% means no cart can receive more than 40% total discount

When to use: As a safety net against unexpected discount combinations. If you have multiple team members creating discounts, or complex stacking, the cap ensures no customer gets an unreasonable discount.

WooCommerce coupon interaction

Controls how the Dino Discounts engine behaves when a real WooCommerce coupon is also on the cart. The control lives on the Settings tab and writes to the global wc_coupon_kill_switch option.

Mode	Behaviour
Apply Dino discounts alongside (default, off)	Dino automatic discounts and WooCommerce coupons both apply to the cart
Disable all Dino discounts when any coupon is applied (disable_dino_when_wc_coupon_applied)	As soon as any real WooCommerce coupon is present, every Dino rule is suppressed for that cart

When to enable the kill-switch: If you run separate coupon promotions (e.g., via marketing emails) and don’t want them to stack with your automatic discounts. This prevents “double dipping.”

This is a global kill-switch

When set to “Disable Dino discounts”, every Dino rule stops firing for any cart with a WooCommerce coupon — regardless of how the rule is targeted. If a merchant turns this on and later notices that Dino discounts have gone quiet, this setting is the first thing to check.

Discount Combination (Stacking Mode)

Controls how multiple matching discounts combine. See Discount Priority & Stacking for detailed explanations of each mode:

• Apply All — Additive (default)
• Apply All — Multiplicative
• Best Discount Only
• First Match
• Disable All

Performance Tracking

When enabled, writes timing and cache data as a hidden HTML comment in the page footer. Useful for verifying the engine’s performance impact on your store.

See Performance Monitoring for details on what’s tracked and how to read the data.

Start with defaults

The default settings (no cap, allow alongside coupons, additive stacking, performance tracking off) work well for most stores. Only change them when you have a specific reason to.

Automatic conflict detection

Dino Discounts automatically detects two types of potential conflicts and shows admin notices:

Incompatible discount plugins

If any of these plugins are active alongside Dino Discounts, a warning banner appears advising you to deactivate them or verify your discount rules:

• WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts
• Discount Rules for WooCommerce
• YITH Dynamic Pricing and Discounts (Premium)
• Smart Coupons for WooCommerce

Running multiple discount plugins can cause unexpected pricing — prices may be discounted twice or rules may conflict.

Caching plugins

If a full-page caching plugin is detected (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, and others), a one-time notice reminds you to exclude /cart/ and /checkout/ from page caching. Caching these pages can cause discounts to appear stale or not apply.

This notice can be permanently dismissed — it won’t reappear once you click the dismiss button.