Hi! I’m trying to set up some automatic discounts for a sale I’m running (50% off certain items) and wondering if there’s any way set up a visual representation of the sale on my listings? (ex. Prices showing as “$10.00 $5.00” or a “Sale” flag somewhere on the listing)
My discounts are active but not visible until checkout.
Thanks!
Hi @beffalumps ,
Why are you not adding compare-at prices to your products? This is indeed an alternative way to show that a product is discounted without using labels. When you set a compare-at price that is higher than the actual product price, Shopify automatically displays the difference as a discount to your customers.
Also, check your theme if supports labels or badges, you can use the built-in functionality to display a “Sale” label on discounted products.
I’m not the original poster but I am looking for a solution to the same issue.
Adding “compare-at” prices isn’t a good solution for every business. I have automatic discounts set up for select products for a 24 hour period. These will happen daily for several weeks so editing each product every day by adding a compare-at price and then removing it 24 hours later would be extremely time consuming.
This is yet another very basic function that Shopify lacks.
I am interested in setting up the same thing like discount only for limited time. Can you please advise which tool etc you use?
Hi Beffalumpus,
Unfortunately Shopify currently only display discounted price of products after a customer add them to cart / in checkout page, as the discounted price information is not available to the theme to display before they are added to cart. To achieve showing automatic discounted price, you will need custom coding and hard code the discount percentage / amount in the theme code (which can be cumbersome to update if the discount expires / changes in the future).
I have just made an app specifically to solve this issue , the app utilizes metafields and can display discounted price (from the automatic discount) on the product page / collection / search result. The app does not modify the product price / compare at price, so you don’t have to worry about double discounts issue, the app also does not require you to create a new discount, you can use the existing automatic discount in your Shopify Admin to display the discounted product price.
The app name is Yagi Automatic Discount Helper (https://apps.shopify.com/yagi-automatic-discount-helper ), you can view the demo store in the app listing page to see how it works.
In case your automatic discount expires / deactivated, you can go to the app, and click “Remove” to remove the display of automatic discounted price, then the normal price will be displayed as usual.
Hope this can help!
Regards,
Axel Kee (developer of the Yagi Automatic Discount Helper app)
