Timed Discounts

Make a timed discount

1. Open the form

   On the Discounts page, press Create Timed Discount under Timed Discounts. Or press Create on a preset such as 5% Weekly or $5 Weekly.

   

2. Set the step

   Pick Percentage per step or Fixed amount per step, then fill in % Off Per Step or $ Off Per Step.

3. Set the timing

   Days Between Steps is how long each price lasts. Max Steps (optional) caps how many drops there are.

4. Set a floor

   Floor Price ($) is the lowest price you will take. It is required, and it must be $1 or more. Without it, the form says "Set a floor price of at least $1" and does not save. Max Steps alone is not enough.

   The Example Schedule shows what the steps do to a $100 item. Its last box shows the price back at $100, the step after the schedule ends.

   A timed discount saved before the floor was required keeps working. It never takes a price under $1. To change its steps, give it a floor first.

   

5. Press Create Rule, then add listings

   Leave Name empty and it is named for you, such as "5% every 7 days". Press Add listings on the new card. See Choose Listings for a Discount.

How the price steps down

The first drop comes one Days Between Steps after you create it. Prices are updated every 6 hours, so a drop lands within 6 hours of the Next Drop date on the card. Change Days Between Steps later and Next Drop moves to match, counted from the last drop.

Each step adds the step amount to the discount, counted from the original price. At 10% a step, an $80 listing goes to $72, then $64, then $56. Buyers see it as a sale on the listing page, with no code.

Here is $5 every 7 days on an $80 jacket, with a $60 floor:

When it ends

To hold a price instead, press Pause before the step that would end it. A paused rule reads Paused, and its listings keep the price they have. Resume runs the next step at the next update if its date has passed.

Delete ends it at once for every listing. Unticking one listing in Listings ends it for that one.

Listings it cannot change

1. A listing that already has an automatic coupon, running or paused, keeps that coupon. The timed discount does not change its price, and its row says Has an automatic coupon, so this discount will not change its price. Delete that coupon and the timed discount takes over at its next step.
2. A listing on another running timed discount cannot be added. Its row says On another discount.
3. A listing added after the rule has started joins at the rule's current step. Added to a 5% rule on step 3, it drops 20% at the next step.