Discount API endpoints
Gianmarco Maietti
I am currently working on integrating an external eCommerce website with ClickFunnels, where customers complete their checkout process. To achieve this, I am using the Create Order endpoint from the External Orders private beta.
During this process, I noticed that the fetched orders include a "discount_ids" array. However, there are no available endpoints to create, fetch, list, or update discounts via the API. Additionally, it is not possible to set the "discount_ids" array in the Create Order endpoint.
Could you please consider adding the following features to the API:
- Endpoints to create, fetch, list, and update discounts.
- The ability to set the "discount_ids" array in the Create Order endpoint.
Thank you for your attention and have a ncie day
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Rich Steinmetz (ClickFunnels Engineering)
Hey Gianmarco Maietti,
It's great to see that you're leveraging the External Orders API for your use case. Thanks for detailing your request!
We will consider discounts for our internal roadmap. We could easily add some show/list endpoints so you can decipher existing discount_ids for non-external orders.
However, adding discounts to External Orders seems a bit more shaky because external orders are usually discounted in the external platform, so discounts end up not serving a real business purpose. In the meantime, I think you could work around this by having different discounted variants inside of CF or adjusting the final sum of the created order/invoice based on what you were paid on the external platform.
Let me know if this helps.
Gianmarco Maietti
Rich Steinmetz (ClickFunnels Engineering)
Hi Rich,
Thank you for your quick response!
Creating discounted variants of products seems to be a decent workaround (even if it's a bit of extra work), but we'd like to have the correct revenue numbers to better evaluate the efficency of our funnels, so I guess we'll have to go for it.
I have one quick follow up question.
You mentioned the possibility of "adjusting the final sum of the created order/invoice based on what you were paid on the external platform", but in the Create Order documentation I don't see the attribute "total_amount" in the body params, only in the response object. If I try to add it to my POST request it just get ignored.
For reference, here's the documentation I'm looking at:
https://developers.myclickfunnels.com/v15-02-2025/reference/createorders
Is there some other way of adjusting the final order amount, independently of the products in the order?
Rich Steinmetz (ClickFunnels Engineering)
Gianmarco Maietti that's right, the total_amount is calculated based on the product price amount sums times their quantities of all line items. So, it'll boil down for you to multiple Products::Price records in the end, I think you'll be able to reuse the same Products::Variant record if needed.
If you have more API-related questions, we are usually fastest to respond in our developer hub forum below. :))
https://developers.myclickfunnels.com/discuss
Rich Steinmetz (ClickFunnels Engineering)
We will add this info to the total_amount response attribute documentation, thanks for your feedback!