Create a Discount with Bold Discounts

Bold Discounts allows you to create discount groups to select the products that you'd like to place on sale. Within the discount group, you can choose to discount your products by a percentage or a dollar amount.  

Create a discount group to place your entire store on sale, or select only a few products. You can also create daily deals using tags and smart collection of products.

Note: Product prices are updated at a rate of roughly 1000 variants per hour.

This help article will go over different kind of discounts and how each discount can be setup in Discounts.

Create a Discount Group

Bold Discounts allows you to choose which products you want to be applied in a discount group.

Individual products can be found in the product selector by searching for collections, product types, smart collections, vendors, or by using a product title.

To create a discount group, please see the video or follow the step-by-step setup guide below.

Walkthrough

Setup

1. In Discounts, navigate to Current Discounts.
2. Click Create Discount.
3. Enter a Discount Name.
4. Enter a Discount Amount.
5. Select a Discount Type.

   Note: You can select either a percentage or dollar amount discount.

6. Choose Select Products.
7. Select Add next to each of the products you would like to discount.

   Note: You can also filter your search results by product title, collection, vendor, and product type. Select your filter choice and then click Search to see all results for your filter choice.
   
   If you are missing products in the product selector, click Update Now at the top of the product selector. This creates a sync to bring in newly created products from Shopify into the product selector.

8. Select Continue with selected products.
9. Optional: Select Enable Date Range.

   Note: A date range is required for the Bold Discounts sales clock to appear. This is an optional feature which requires a separate install. For more information, please visit our Installation Guide for Bold Discounts.

   • Select a Start Date.
   • Enter a Start Time.
   • Select an End Date.
   • Select an End Time.
10. Optional: Select Override cents and enter a cent amount.

    Note: The Override cents feature only replaces the cents value in the final discounted amount. It does not change the dollar value.

11. Optional: Enter a Discount Tag.

    Note: This tag can be used to create a smart collection for your sale products, such as a collection for daily deals. For more information, please see the information under Create Daily Deals below.

12. Optional: Under Duplicate & Hide select Create a hidden duplicate (Liquid update required).

    Note: This feature is only needed if you have integrated Discounts with Bold Upsell and are creating a discounted Upsell offer. For more information, please visit Bold Discounts Bold Integrations.

13. Select Create.
14. Select the Toggle to enable the offer.

    Note: You can skip this step if you have entered a specific start time. The discount group will automatically enable itself at the time you have entered. The toggle will be green when the offer is enabled.

Edit or Delete a Discount Group

In order to edit or delete a discount group, the discount group must be deactivated (turned off) within Discounts first.

Discount groups can be deactivated within Discounts by toggling the discount group from Active to Inactive:

Once the discount group has been turned off and the discount group has finished syncing, the View button will change to an Edit button. You can make all necessary changes, such as changing the discount amount, adding or removing products, or deleting the discount group by selecting the Edit button.

Put Entire Store on Sale

Discounts allows you to pick and choose which products receive a discount when you create a discount group.

To place your entire store on sale, please see the video or follow the step-by-step setup guide below.

Walkthrough

Setup

1. From within Discounts, click on Current Discounts.
2. Click Create Discount.
3. Enter a Discount Name.
4. Enter a Discount Amount.
5. Expand the dropdown menu, and select a Discount Type.

   Note: You can select either a percentage or dollar amount discount.

6. Click Select Products, and click ADD next to the products you'd like to add to the discount group.

   Note: You can click Select All Results to add your entire store. Product prices are updated at a rate of roughly 1000 products or variants per hour.

7. Click Continue with selected products.
8. Optional: Select Enable Date Range.
   • Select a Start Date.
   • Enter a Start Time.
   • Select an End Date.
   • Enter an End Time.
9. Optional: Select Override cents, and enter a cent amount.

   Note: The Override cents feature only replaces the cents value in the final discounted amount. It does not change the dollar value.

10. Optional: Enter a Discount Tag name.

    Note: This tag can be used to create a smart collection for your sale products, such as a collection for daily deals. For more information, please see the information under Create Daily Deals below.

11. Optional: Under Duplicate & Hide select Create a hidden duplicate (Liquid update required).

    Note: This feature is only needed if you have integrated Discounts with Bold Upsell and are creating a discounted Upsell offer. For more information, please visit Bold Discounts Bold Integrations.

12. Click Create.
13. Select the Toggle to enable the offer.

    Note: You can skip this step if you have entered a specific start time. The discount group will automatically enable itself at the time you have entered. The toggle will be green when the offer is enabled.

Create Daily Deals

Discounts allows you to enter a Discount Tag when you create your discount group. Once the discount group is activated, it will automatically tag each item it places on sale with the tag name you've specified. You can use that tag to create a smart collection of sale products.

To create a daily deals page, please see the video or follow the step-by-step setup guide below.

Walkthrough

Step 1: Create a Smart collection in Shopify.

1. In Shopify, navigate to Products > Collections.
2. Click Create collection.
3. Enter a Title and Description.
4. Under Collection type, select Smart.
5. Under Conditions, select Tag in the first drop-down field.
6. Leave is equal to in the second drop-down field.
7. Enter the Product Tag name you want to use for your deals in the third field.
8. Click Save collection.

Step 2: Add your collection to your navigation.

1. In Shopify, navigate to Content > Menus.
2. Click Main menu.
3. Click Add menu item.
4. Enter a Name for the navigation item.
5. Select Collection from the Link drop-down menu.
6. Select the collection you created from the drop-down menu.
7. Click Save.

Step 3: Create a Discount Group with your tag

1. In Discounts, navigate to Current Discounts.
2. Click Create Discount.
3. Enter a Discount Name.
4. Enter a Discount Amount.
5. Select a Discount Type.

   Note: You can select either a percentage or dollar amount discount.

6. Choose Select Products.
7. Click Add next to each of the products you would like to discount.
8. Click Continue with selected products.
9. Optional: Select Enable Date Range, and enter your start and end date and times.

   Note: A date range is required for the Bold Discounts sales clock to appear. This is an optional feature which requires a separate install. For more information, please visit our Installation Guide for Bold Discounts.

10. Optional: Select Override cents and enter a cent amount.

    Note: The Override cents feature only replaces the cent value in the final discounted amount. It does not change the dollar value.

11. Enter the Discount Tag you used for your Smart collection in step 1.7 above.
12. Click Create.
13. Click the Toggle to enable the offer.

    Note: You can skip this step if you have entered a specific start time. The discount group will automatically enable itself at the time you have entered. The toggle will be green when the offer is enabled.