With Shopify alone
In Shopify, the compare-at price is what your theme shows crossed out next to the price. To show a saving you lower the price and set the compare-at to the old one, on every variant.
After the sale both have to go back. Miss one and a product keeps a fake saving for months, which confuses shoppers and, in many countries, breaks price display rules.
Step by step with Market Manager
- Create a sale and pick the products, a collection or the whole catalog.
- Set the discount. The preview shows each variant's sale price with the original as compare-at.
- Schedule it. When it starts, prices drop and compare-at shows the original; when it ends, both come back exactly.
What Market Manager does
- Sets the sale price and the compare-at price on every variant in the sale
- Saves each original price and compare-at first
- Puts both back at the end, leaving prices you changed by hand alone
- History lists every change with Undo
What it doesn't
- How the crossed-out price looks is up to your theme.
- It changes the prices of products in a sale, not every compare-at price in the store.
On the Free plan
Your questions
What if a variant already had a compare-at price?
It is saved with the price and comes back as it was when the sale ends.
Do I see the new prices before they change?
Yes. The preview shows each variant's new price before you schedule the sale.
Related use cases
- Restore Original Prices After a Shopify SalePut every Shopify price back after a sale: originals are saved before the sale starts and restored when it ends, with History and Undo.
- How to Schedule a Sale on Shopify, Step by StepHow to schedule a sale on Shopify so prices drop and come back on their own: what Shopify offers, what it doesn't, and the steps with Market Manager.
- Bulk Discounts on Shopify: Put a Whole Collection on SaleDiscount a whole collection, tag, vendor or the entire Shopify catalog at once, check every new price, and have every original come back after.
Run your next sale with Market Manager
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