Shopify gamification with a hard discount budget
Shopify gamification puts a game in your store that pays out something shoppers can use there. Perkcade does it with a skill game: a shopper plays a run of about a minute, collects coins and trades them for discount codes you define.
You set the reward tiers and a monthly discount budget, and the game issues no code past it.
Free costs 0 USD. Season costs 29 USD and Studio 79 USD a month, with a 14‑day trial, billed by Shopify.
Game controls
On a computer: Space or W to jump, S to roll, E for the skill, A and D to steer the rocket.
On a phone: tap to jump, swipe down to roll, swipe right for the skill, or turn on the joystick and its three buttons.
How Perkcade works in a Shopify store
1. Play
A shopper runs the day’s route for about a minute and picks up coins. Everyone in your store gets the same route that day, and the server replays each run before its coins count.
2. Redeem
Coins buy the tiers you set, by default 1000 coins for 5 percent off. Each code works once, for one customer, for 14 days, and shows in your Shopify discounts as Perkcade reward.
3. Control
You set the tiers, their minimum order and the monthly budget on the Rewards page. Runs and coins per shopper are capped every day.
How does the discount budget cap work?
On Season and Studio you set a monthly budget of 0.25 to 3 percent of the last 30 days of revenue. Perkcade keeps the value of active rewards under half of it, so the month’s discounts cannot pass it. On Free the limit is 50 rewards a month.
- When the budget is used up, rewards pause until the next month and shoppers keep collecting coins
- Every tier has a minimum order and a cap on its amount, up to 5 percent off on Free, 15 on Season and 20 on Studio
- The Redemptions open switch on the Rewards page pauses every reward at any time
What the game adds to your store
- 8 maps: Shop Street all year and 7 seasonal maps on a published calendar, each with its own boss
- 10 characters with one skill each, and a calm mode at 0.8 of the speed for the same coins
- Daily quests and a return streak, up to 250 coins a day from play on Free, 400 on Season and 500 on Studio
- On Season and Studio, your colours, your store’s name on a sign and your products in the map
- One app embed switch in any Online Store 2.0 theme, plus an optional game block for a page
Questions about Shopify gamification
What is a Shopify gamification app?
An app that adds a game to a Shopify store and ties what shoppers do in it to something they can use there. In Perkcade, shoppers collect coins in a run of about a minute and trade them for discount codes you define.
Is Perkcade a game of skill?
Yes. Every shopper in your store plays the same route on a given day, and the coins depend on how well the run went. The server replays every run from its recorded inputs and ignores the score the browser sends.
How is it different from a spin-the-wheel popup?
A wheel gives its reward from one spin, whatever the shopper does. In Perkcade the coins depend on how the shopper plays, and the map changes with the seasons. For collecting email addresses on a first visit, a wheel popup is the better tool.
How much does Perkcade cost?
Free costs 0 USD. Season costs 29 USD a month or 290 USD a year, Studio 79 USD a month or 790 USD a year, both with a 14‑day trial. Shopify bills the plan with your store’s other charges, with no fee per order or per code.
Do I need to design anything?
No. Switch on the app embed in the theme editor, check the reward tiers and play a test run. The maps, characters and quests are ready.
Which languages does the game speak?
English and Polish, following the shopper’s language. Shoppers in other languages get the English game. The admin works in English and Polish too.
Try the game, then install it on Shopify
Play the demo with sample rewards, or install Perkcade from the Shopify App Store and play a test run in your own store.