Step by step
Turn on Approval before launch
Go to Settings → Promotions → Team approval and turn on Approval before launch.
A drawing of the app's screen, with its real labels. Choose who approves
Under Who approves, the store owner always approves. Add staff who have opened the app once.
Staff save a sale
A sale saved by someone who isn't an approver, from the sale form, Plan the month or Slow stock, gets Pending approval and changes nothing in your store.
Approvers are told
Approvers see it on Sales in Needs attention, and get an email when the app can send emails.
Approve or return it
On the sale's page, Approve starts it on its dates, or right away if its start has passed. Return with comment sends it back to be edited and saved again.
Tips
- Every sale's page has an Approval log: who sent it, approved or returned it, when, and the comment.
- On any plan, Require approval in the sale form makes one sale wait for your Approve.
What to check
- Waiting sales show Pending approval in the Sales list.
- A waiting sale's Buy more, save more deal waits with it.
Common mistakes
- Waiting for a staff member to appear under Who approves before they've opened the app: the app learns who people are only when they open it.
- Expecting a pending sale to start on time without approval: nothing changes until someone approves, even after the start time.
The plan you need
From the Business planTeam approval is on Business. On other plans the switch is locked.
Your questions
What can only approvers do?
Approve, Resume, change a running sale, move an approved sale on the timeline, put a product back into an approved sale and change Team approval.
Does the app read my staff list?
No. Shopify tells the app who is using it, so staff appear under Who approves after they open the app once.
Related tutorials
- Settings and your planSet the app's language, look and timezone, choose email notifications, and see your plan's limits, switch plans or move between monthly and yearly.
- Schedule a sale step by stepThe full sale form: products, the discount, rounding, the dates, how the sale shows, the price preview and Schedule sale, with what each option does.
- Clear slow stockSee which products haven't sold and the money held in them, then clear them with one sale, a discount that steps down, or a daily autopilot.
Learn more
- Use caseShopify Discount Scheduler: Sales That Start and End on TimeA discount scheduler for Shopify: bulk sales start and end on time, compare-at shows the saving and every original price comes back. Free plan.
- FeatureScheduled salesPick the products, the discount and the dates. The sale changes prices on time and puts every saved original back when it ends.
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