Dino Discounts didn't start as a product. It started as a problem on a working WooCommerce store — ScratchSleeves — that no existing plugin could solve without a compromise they weren't willing to make.
So we built the one they needed — and made it good enough to give everyone.
ScratchSleeves sell to parents around the world, so their promotions had to work in more than one currency — and read correctly to every shopper, whatever they checked out in. They run the kind of offers a growing shop lives on: spend a little more, save a little more; a campaign of unique codes for a newsletter; a seasonal sale that has to go up — and come down — without a developer on call.
They tried the obvious plugins. Each one missed something that mattered. The ones that did tiered pricing fell down on multi-currency. The ones that generated coupons made you wait — or buried the codes somewhere you couldn't actually manage them. And more than one quietly taxed every page load, which on a shop is the same as taxing every sale.
The plugin they wanted didn't exist. So we built it with them.
Run per-currency rules and target by country and zone. The same
[ccy]
discount renders as "£10 Off" or "€10 Off" in each shopper's checkout
currency — no duplicate rules, no re-saving for every market they sell
into.
Spend & save thresholds, quantity breaks, BOGO — the offers that nudge a shopper to add one more. Start from a labelled recipe, preview the cart, publish. The shopper just sees the saving climb.
Generate a batch of unique codes for a campaign in one request, with usage caps and expiry built in. Then actually manage them: see how many have been used at a glance, and copy or export a batch straight from the coupons table — no digging required.
A library of ready-made recipes, a draft / publish workflow, and a live cart preview before anything goes live. Creating or changing a discount is a few minutes in a clean admin — not a support ticket and a wait.
ScratchSleeves were right to worry about it, so we treated performance as a feature from day one — not something to apologise for later. Fast product pages and a fast checkout aren't a nice-to-have; they're the difference between a sale and an abandoned cart.
Dino adds about 2 ms to cart evaluation on a typical store, stays in the low double-digits (around 12 ms) even on a big 50-item cart, ships roughly 3 kb of front-end JavaScript, and adds zero extra database calls on product pages. The numbers come from a published, repeatable benchmark — not a marketing claim.†
† How we measured it:
cart-evaluation time isolated to Dino Discounts' own contribution, over
30 iterations per case using our published engine benchmark
(make engine-bench), on PHP 8.3+. A typical store
(~25 active rules on a 10-item cart) adds about 2 ms; a large
50-item cart stays around 12 ms. Cost scales with cart
size × active-rule count, and repeat evaluations are memoised,
so production is usually faster. Benchmarked June 2026; real-world
hosting will vary.
Dino Discounts was developed in partnership with ScratchSleeves. Every feature on this page earned its place by solving a real problem on a real, trading store — not a wishlist drawn up in a vacuum. They told us where the existing tools hurt; we built the fix; they ran it on a live shop and told us what still wasn't right.
That's why it feels the way it does. The recipes are the offers a shop actually runs. The admin is built for the person who has a hundred other things to do. And the speed is there because a real merchant told us, in no uncertain terms, that it had to be.