---
key: activate-deactivate-or-copy-a-discount
title: Activate, deactivate or copy a discount
audience: staff
section: administration/billing-commerce
routes: ["/settings/org/billing/discounts"]
permissions: ["commerce.discounts.activate"]
features: ["settings.org.billing-discounts"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Turn a discount on so customers can use it, switch it off when the promotion ends, or copy an existing discount as the starting point for a new one.
keywords: [turn on discount, end promotion, expire code, disable coupon, duplicate discount, copy discount, stop discount]
related: [create-a-discount, follow-up-on-sent-quotes, create-an-invoice]
---

In the sidebar, open **Settings**, then choose **Discounts** under **Sales & Billing**. The page address is `/settings/org/billing/discounts`.

## Before you start

- A **Draft** discount is invisible to customers and staff until it is activated. Activating runs Nova's checks, so a discount with a missing value or an impossible percent will refuse.
- Deactivating stops new uses only. Quotes and invoices that already carry the discount keep it.
- Your role needs the activate permission to turn a discount on, the deactivate permission to turn it off, and the create permission to copy one.

## Steps

To turn a discount on:

1. Press the discount's row to open it.
2. Press **Activate** at the top of the panel. The row's **Status** reads **Active**.

To turn a discount off:

1. Open the discount and press **Deactivate**. The **Status** reads **Inactive**.
2. To stop only one code and keep the rest of the discount running, scroll to **Discount Codes** and press **Deactivate** next to that code instead.

To copy a discount:

1. Open the discount you want to copy and press **Clone**. Nova shows **Discount definition cloned.** and a new **Draft** appears in the list with "copy" after the name.
2. Open the copy, change the **Discount name**, the code and anything else that differs, then press **Save discount**. Activate it when it is ready.

## What you see

- Under **Filters**, **Status** narrows the list to **Draft**, **Active**, **Inactive** or **Retired**, and **Class** to **Automatic**, **Code**, **Manual**, **Source-derived** or **Recurring**.
- The counters above the list (**Definitions**, **Codes**, **Applications**, **Redemptions**) tell you how much a discount has been used before you switch it off.
- A discount with an **Ends** date stops on its own. You only need **Deactivate** to end one early.

## If something looks different

- **Activate** refuses with a message: fix what the message names, usually the value or the schedule, then try again.
- **Activate**, **Deactivate** or **Clone** is missing: your role lacks that permission. Ask your admin.
- You are done with a discount for good: set its **Status** to **Retired** in the **Basics** section and press **Save discount**. Nova keeps it for history, and the **Status** filter lets you find it again.

[[route:/settings/org/billing/discounts|Open Discounts]]