When Shopify alone is enough
- One discount code for a newsletter, or one automatic discount at checkout: Shopify's own discounts do it.
- On Shopify Plus, Launchpad can schedule price changes for an event.
- Market Manager is for sales that change the prices shoppers see, often, with the originals back every time.
Side by side
| What you want | Shopify's own tools | Market Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule a discount code or an automatic discount | Yes: discounts have a start and an end date, and apply at checkout. | Yes, as deals at checkout, next to your sales. |
| Lower product prices at a set time, so shoppers see the sale while they browse | Only on Shopify Plus, with Launchpad. Otherwise prices are changed by hand or by CSV. | Yes, on every plan, in your store's time zone. |
| Put every original price back when the sale ends | By hand or by importing the old prices again; Launchpad on Plus. | Yes: originals are saved first and restored at the end. Prices changed by hand during the sale are kept. |
| Show the saving with compare-at prices | Yes, set on each variant by hand or by CSV. | Set and removed with the sale, on every variant in it. |
| Keep sale prices above cost plus margin | No rule for it: discounts don't look at cost. | Yes: cost plus margin, a floor or a maximum discount, on every sale. |
| See every new price before it changes | The bulk editor shows the values you type in. | Yes: a preview of each variant with the lowest price allowed and anything skipped. |
| Buy X, get Y | Yes, built in. | Yes, on Business, with a cart goal block that shows the way to it. |
| Quantity breaks in several tiers | A discount can ask for a minimum quantity; each tier is a discount of its own. | Yes: several tiers in one Buy more, save more deal. |
| Sale badges and a countdown in the store | Depends on your theme. | Yes: theme app blocks you turn on in the theme editor. |
| Undo a sale's price changes later | No history of bulk price edits to undo. | Yes: History with Undo, and a price time machine. |
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