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Nick Gurney
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Scheduling a sale is a great way to help plan marketing events and increase sales. With Rain, you can now automated a scheduled sale to make this easier than ever.

Before we dive into how a schedule sale works, it is important to address a few important points:

  1. A Scheduled Sale simply updates the Sale Price of as many products as you select for the sale at the scheduled time. If there is an existing sale price, it will be overwritten. Once the end date is reached, the sale price field is emptied.
  2. If you have the separate Website Price field enabled, the Scheduled Sale will respect that setting and you will have an option to select whether you want to update the Sale Price, the Website Sale Price, or both.
    Note: If you do not have a Website Price entered, the product will default to the Price. This is important to remember as if you create a sale and select to only apply it to the Sale Price, if you have no Website Price set it will default to the Sale Price on the web as well.

You can watch a video walk-through of this feature here: 

Setting Up a Scheduled Sale

  1. Click on Products in the menu bar.
  2. Click on Schedule Sale on the far right.
  3. Click New Sale on the top right.
  4. Enter the details of your sale.

Sale Details

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  1. This is an internal sale title, your customers will not see it.

  2. The start date and time can be at any time in the future and is available in 15 minute increments.

  3. The end date is optional, and can be set at any time after the start date.

    Note: During high-volume events (such as Black Friday) there may be a delay in starting or ending your sale

  4. Enter a discount percentage, which will be calculated as a discount from the product Price.

  5. You can choose to round your sale prices up or down, so that you can keep a uniform product price (such as $9.95).

  6. Choose the products, categories, or departments to which you wish your sale prices to apply.

    Tip: If you want to run your sale on specific categories AND products, you can set up two simultaneous scheduled sales.

  7. Click Schedule Sale, or Save as Draft if you would like to finish it later.

Sale Statuses

A Scheduled Sale can have a variety of statuses due to the date entered.

New - A sale is considered New only while creating it.

Draft - A sale is in a Draft state only when it has been saved as such.

Pending - A sale that has been scheduled, but that has not yet reached its start date is Pending.

Active - An Active sale is in between its start and end date and is currently running.

Completed - This sale has reached its end date, or it has been ended by opening the sale and clicking "End Sale" at any time it is active.

Ending a Sale

If you entered an end date when you scheduled your sale, it will automatically end once that date is reached. If you did not enter an end date, or need to end your sale early for any reason, you can do that by opening the scheduled sale and clicking the "End Sale" button.

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    Sandra Faust

    This looks like a great feature.  Is there away to put in a min. qty?  Such as 20% off fabric with a one yard min?

     

    Thanks

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    Nick Gurney

    Hi Sandra,

    Unfortunately, there is no minimum quantity requirement at this time. You can offer that as a suggestion by clicking on the Question mark in the top right corner, and then clicking Suggest a Feature. 

    Thanks!

    - Nick

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    Amy Easterling

     I love this feature but it will not let you edit the sale once it starts. We need to be able to add or remove items from a scheduled sale.

     

    Thanks!

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