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To schedule a sale on Shopify, create a discount with a start date and an end date. Shopify has no single sale scheduler for every store. Discounts take dates, and products can get a publish date. Prices typed into a product have no dates at all. Launchpad times whole sales events, but only on Shopify […]

Shopify Launchpad schedules a sale with a start and an end time, but only for stores on the Shopify Plus plan. If your store is on another plan, you cannot use it and need another route. Launchpad is free on the Shopify App Store. Below: what it changes at the start and end of an

A flash sale is a short sale with a fixed start and a fixed end, from a few hours to a few days. On Shopify you build it as a discount with an end date, which stops on its own. Or you set sale prices with the compare-at price, which stay until you put them

To hide a product on Shopify, remove the Online Store from its Publishing section, or change its status to Draft, Unlisted or Archived. Each method hides something different. Removing the Online Store takes the product off your storefront only. Draft and Archived stop customers buying it anywhere, and Unlisted keeps it on sale at its

Promotional pricing is a temporary price cut meant to sell more than your regular price would. It pays only when the extra units earn more profit than the margin you give away. A 20% discount on a product with a 40% gross margin needs twice the unit sales just to break even. This guide compares

The compare-at price is the original price that Shopify shows crossed out next to a product's current price. You set the new price in the Price field and the original price in the Compare-at price field. The sale shows only when the compare-at price is higher than the price. This guide covers the field, the