I ended up using this app. It serves the same purpose. It seems to be totally free, yes?
Cant belive this is not possible. Absolutly amazing!!!
Shopify why cant this be fixed??
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Adding my vote here. @Shay IT seems support team has no idea what is being asked or what the requirement is. you are giving answers as if you were trained from text book and this scenario wasn’t covered in that. This is not difficult. you guys keep changing UI every day, why can’t you fix this first?
I want to enable discount on a particular collection and I want my customers to see (on the product page!) so they find the deal good enough to be added to cart. you understand why discounts are given, right? there is no point if we are keeping it as a ‘surprise’,
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Shay, you obviously don’t understand what is being asked here. Why is this such a difficult ask? If I set an automatic sale of say 20% off certain items, it should show that pricing on the product page without me having to go in and adjust all the pricing manually.
Hi Shay
read what you customer want. It is not just this post. Is Shopify going to listen to its paying customers or just ignore this issue?
How do we make a complaint to upper management to apply some common sense here or am I guessing there is no avenue for this?
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I spent a lot of money on my theme, and you’re telling me that this still is an issue?
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I don’t see how this is such a huge issue to implement. Etsy does this all day long, with ease, as well as thousands of other websites. Why should I pay for my theme, then have to pay for third-party apps to do what Shopify should do to begin with??? If you can create an automatic discount, you should be able to display that discounted pricing on the product page itself without having to manually adjust code.
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I am astounded that thousands of other websites can handle this, but Shopify refuses to even attempt to implement it. I guess it’s easier to pawn off customers to third-party apps than to actually listen to what customers want/need.
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For context, I am adding 2,000+ products, so setting the “Compare at” price is not practical. Unless there’s a bulk way to manage “Compare at” for a subset of products? Is there?
To answer my own question, I ended up using the QuickEdit: Bulk Product Edit app. You can filter a subset of products then apply an action. My action sets Compare At to current value of Price then reduces Price by a percentage. It has an option to revert the changes after X amount of time (end sale after a week, for example). It’s really pretty awesome.
Maybe there’s a technical limitation preventing Shopify from doing something similar? My best guess is that Compare At never should have been a public field so that discounts could handle markdowns automatically without user interference. In any case, it would be helpful if Shopify would explain.
But If set the Compare at price for each product, the discount doesn’t show in the cart, only on the product page.
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Has anybody tried working around this by making an app?
Maybe detect if the product qualifies for the discount and show that price with the original crossed off?
I suppose some consideration for “Compare At” being set would need to be made (cross off both original and “Compare At” sale price while showing the discounted price).
I’m interested in developing such an app and would like some feedback on how this could best work.
yes, someone developed an app. I’m using Rockit Sales Manager to get around
this issue.
I too am using an app that runs sales its own way (QuickEdit, described in an earlier reply). It’s totally separate from Shopify’s Discounts.
What I’m wondering about (and maybe I wasn’t too clear) is an app that uses the built-in Discounts from Shopify to simply display the discounted price on the product as most here expected (a sale that nobody knows about until they add it to the cart is an incomplete solution).
Since it appears no such app exists, I’m exploring making one for free so people can use the built-in Discounts and not have to pay monthly for an alternative solution.
That is what Shopify want. Either pay for Shopify Plus which is a ridiculous price for people starting up or pay for apps. In another post they stated this involves complex coding. As you can see the app does the job. So basically Shopify are not telling the truth to its customer.
It’s not even available on Shopify Plus!
I mean, not even Plus members get this option so there’s that. This is such a ridiculous thing that should be a “core” setting for discounts.
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Hi there,
I’d like to recommend app Selly to display discounted prices on product page, collection page.
For example, in offer setting, you can set up a sale offer like the screenshot below:
There are sale widget and optional product label on product page as well as collection page as below:
The app has 15 day free trial:
There are many other feature such as bundle, gift… and the app support is ready to help.
Personally I’ve just used the app Discounty, specially developed for Shopify and with a basic free plan which worked out great for what I needed (simple discount on a product with the correct new price visible on the main product page).
My suggestion is to check on the app page if this one is compatible with your theme.
About all the complaints on this thread I back all of the people that are upset with Shopify as there’s no clear indication for such a simple request, and I’m surprised that someone working in the official Shopify support team suggested that it’s impossible for the coders to offer such a feature, otherwise there won’t be any app doing this.
On the other end I suggest anyone that cannot find a specific feature on the basic Shopify plan, to always check in the app store and filter for the ones specifically “Built for Shopify”, these I believe are done by Shopify team itself and seem to work perfectly.
FYI. “Built for Shopify” is a designation given to third-party apps that adhere to certain standards (like matching the Shopify UI). It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re made by Shopify or contracted by Shopify. The app marketplace shows who the maker of each app is.
I am trying this solution (which seems to be years old) but I am not getting the strike through indications. Is there another solution that is more current?