Scheduling a Discount
Once you have created your new discount schedule and given it a name, you can now set the value of the discount you wish to schedule:
You have two options for the type of discount:
- Percentage: prices will be discounted by the percentage value you set in the field below (e.g. 20%).
- Fixed amount: prices will be discounted by an exact amount (e.g. + $20)
If you have selected percentage then you have three options for how to handle rounding:
- Do not round prices: after the discount, the final prices will not be rounded.
- Round to the nearest whole number: when the discount is applied, the price will be rounded to the nearest whole number. For example, if you have a product that is $10 and you schedule a 7% discount, the 7% discount would take the price to $9.30 if no rounding were to be applied. When round to the nearest whole number is selected, the discounted price would be $9.00
- Round to a decimal place: when the discount is applied, the price will be rounded down to a value of your choice. For example, if you have a product that with a 10% discount is $9.80 but you want to round the prices down to the nearest 0.49, set this value to 0.49 and the price will be rounded down to $9.49.
Compare at price
When you schedule a price change, you can select what happens to the compare at price of the products for the duration of the schedule. You have two options:
Leave the compare at price as it is
Auto Schedule will leave the compare at price as it was, if there was one. And if there was not one it will remain empty.
Set the compare at price to be the original price
When the schedule runs and the prices are changed, Auto Schedule will update the compare at price to be the price of the product at the time of running the schedule. This will mean the old price will show on your store and the discount will be clear to your customers:
Important things to consider
If you do not set an end date & time, it will be impossible for the app to revert the prices back to their original prices.
- If you have set an end date & time, when a price change schedule reaches the end date & time, the prices will revert back to the exact price it was at the start of the schedule. If you manually change the price of a product while a schedule is running, the price will still go back to what it was before the schedule had started.
- Do not set more than one price change on the same product at the same time. This includes scheduling collections that contain the same product. This could result in a product being discounted on top of an existing discount!
- If an impossible discount is attempted (e.g. $50 discount on a product costing $20) then the price change will not be applied.
Select the products for your schedule.
Set the active dates for your schedule.
If required, set the repeating options for your schedule.
If required, set the tag options for your schedule.
If required, set your schedule to display a countdown timer.