Alpha Sale simplifies the process of putting multiple products on sale, saving your valuable time.
Just remember that once products are on sale, you should not adjust their prices in the Shopify admin panel, whether manually or through dropshipping or inventory apps.
Setting up a product sale
To set up a product sale, follow these steps:
1. Choose your campaign name
Enter a name for your new discount campaign.
2. Select discount value
You can reduce your product prices by:
Specific value: e.g., a $10 discount.
Percentage: e.g., 10% off.
Desired sale price: e.g., setting a product to cost $10 regardless of its initial price.
3. Apply discount to markets with fixed prices (Ultimate plan)
By default, the discount applies to your store's main price list only. If your shop uses Shopify Markets with fixed prices in separate price lists, those markets won't be affected.
To include them, tick the "Apply to markets with fixed prices" checkbox.
4. Utilize price rounding
This feature allows you to set the desired price ending.
For example, you can ensure that your prices always end in .99 cents or are whole numbers.
Price rounding applies to your store currency only. If you've enabled "Apply to markets with fixed prices," market prices are not rounded — since rounding rules differ by currency.
5. Choose the discount application strategy
This setting is beneficial if some of your target products are already on sale (i.e., they have a “compare-at” price set in the admin panel).
Options include:
Stacking discounts: Keep the default “Product price” option to add the new discount to the existing one.
Replacing discounts: Switch to the “Compare-at price” to apply a larger discount.
6. Select discount targets and exclusions
The app lets you choose and exclude products based on various characteristics, including collections, vendors, product types, and tags.
For example, you can easily put all your jeans on sale, excluding those by Levi's.
7. Schedule campaign activation
Set your campaign to activate immediately or to run regularly on autopilot.
8. Set up your announcement banner
Promote the campaign on your website with an announcement bar.
You can customize your bar’s style and text.
Don’t forget to visit your theme editor to activate the Alpha Sale app embed, which is necessary for displaying the banner.
9. Tag discounted products
For efficient product management, consider marking your discounted products with a custom tag. This way you will always know which discount campaign the product belongs to.
10. See your campaign appear in the discount campaigns overview
After your campaign is created, you can find it in the Discount campaigns overview. From here, you can pause or refresh the campaign if needed and track how your usage fits into the current plan’s limit.
