Sales · Money
A sale you set up in advance and switch on when it is right.
Percent or amount, on one product, a category or everything — with a start, an end, and an off switch that is on by default.
What you get
A new promotion is created switched off. A typo in a percentage does not go live on every till the moment somebody presses save.
Percent or fixed amount, scoped to a single product, a category, or the whole catalogue.
Start and end dates in the store's own days, so a long-weekend sale ends when that weekend ends.
The counter and the website discount identically, because they are reading the same catalogue.
Each promotion carries a label, so a discount has a name on the screen rather than appearing as an unexplained deduction.
How it runs
A long-weekend sale, start to finish.
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On Tuesday you build it — 15% off the category, Friday through Monday — and it saves switched off.
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Somebody checks the percentage and the dates, then switches it on.
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Friday morning it starts applying itself, at the counter and on the website.
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Monday night it stops. Nobody has to remember to turn it off.
The questions people ask
- How is this different from a coupon code?
- A promotion applies itself to everything in scope for a period, and the customer does nothing. A coupon is a code the customer brings in, with its own caps and its own record of who used it.
- Can we schedule one ahead?
- That is the normal way to use it. The dates are part of the promotion, so it starts and stops on its own.
Start with Sales switched on.
Every module is part of the same trial — turn on what you need, leave the rest off, and your data exports on any day of it.