With Shopify alone
Shopify's reports show sales by day and by product, and orders that used a discount. A sale that lowers prices isn't a discount in those reports, so you compare the sale's days with your usual days yourself.
Whether a discount pays off depends on your margin, and the sum of how much more you'd need to sell is easy to skip before a sale starts.
Step by step with Market Manager
- Add Cost per item to your products in Shopify, if it isn't there yet.
- Create a sale. Under the discount, the sale form says how much more you need to sell to earn the same.
- When the sale ends, open Results to see what it did.
- On Pro, get a sale report to print, download or email; on Business, see each sale's profit over usual and get a weekly email.
What Market Manager does
- Shows, before the sale, how much more you need to sell to earn the same at a discount
- Results for every sale, from your store's orders
- On Pro: a sale report to print, download or email
- On Business: profit over usual for each sale and a weekly email
What it doesn't
- How much more you need to sell is worked out from Cost per item in Shopify.
- Results come from your store's orders; ad spend and traffic aren't part of them.
- Profit over usual and the weekly email are on the Business plan.
On the Free plan
Your questions
Where do a sale's results come from?
From your store's orders in Shopify. The app reads orders without customer data.
Can I see before a sale whether the discount pays off?
The sale form shows how much more you need to sell to earn the same at that discount, from your products' cost per item.
Can I share a sale's results?
On Pro, the sale report can be printed, saved as PDF or emailed.
Learn it step by step
- TutorialOverview and the menuRead Market Manager's Overview: the numbers, the main insight, today's actions and this week's sales, then find every section in Shopify's menu.
- TutorialRead sale resultsRead a sale's units, revenue and orders against the days before it, see its extra profit, compare sales in Results and share a sale report.
- TutorialThe AdvisorPick a goal, and the Advisor finds what to promote from your orders, stock and costs, says why, and prepares a sale plan you confirm.
Related use cases
- Price Protection on Shopify: Sales That Stay Above CostKeep Shopify sale prices above cost plus margin, a price floor or a maximum discount. Products that would break a rule are capped or skipped and listed.
- Clearance Sale on Shopify: Clear Slow Stock Above CostClear Shopify products that aren't selling with a sale that stays above cost and puts prices back at the end. On Business, Slow stock finds them for you.
- Black Friday Sale on Shopify: Plan It Once, Let It RunSchedule a Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale on Shopify: prices drop at the start, a countdown runs and every original price comes back after.
Run your next sale with Market Manager
Free plan. Paid plans start with a 7-day free trial.