Sale price promotion (strikethrough price)

A sale price promotion takes a percent off a collection and shows the old price crossed out beside the sale price on the product page.

At a glance

Before you start

• Pick the collection that goes on sale. Storefront widgets can’t show a discount aimed at a product tag.
• Turn on the app embed if you want shared look settings or your own wording. See Install and turn on the app embed. For what works without it, see the app embed table.

Set it up in the app

1. Open Promotions, click Create promotion, then click Choose on the Sale price card.

   It is under Promotions with storefront widgets.

   

2. Pick the collection and set the discount in the Discount section.

   The page starts at 20% off a collection you pick. A banner says “Pick the collection for this promotion. Storefront widgets can’t show a product tag.”

   Until you pick, Make it live won’t save. It says “Pick a collection under Discount first.”

   

3. Check the Storefront widgets section.

   Show storefront widgets is on by default. Leave it on.

   

4. Set the dates in Schedule and status, then click Make it live.

   Or click Save as draft to finish later.

   

Add it to your theme

Note What’s next appears after you click Make it live, not after Save as draft. It goes away when you dismiss it or leave the page. No What’s next panel? Open Promotions. In the row’s Storefront widgets column, click Add block. It shows when the block isn’t in your theme yet.

1. Under What’s next, click Open theme editor.

   Add the widget to your theme names the AndOr Sale price block. The link opens your theme editor with the block added.

2. Drag the block under or beside the price, then click Save.

   

   The dashed price in the editor preview is a sample. It shows until a discount applies to the product you preview.

3. Turn on Hide the theme’s price, if you see two prices.

   Most themes show their own price next to the block. This setting hides it, so only the AndOr price shows. It works on themes whose price uses the .price class, like Dawn and Horizon.

All block settings are on the Sale price widget page.

Check it on your store

1. Under What’s next, click View on store.

   It opens the collection from this discount in a new tab. Open a product from it. You see the old price crossed out beside the sale price.

2. Under Try it at checkout, click Open store, add the product to the cart, then check out.

   The discount comes off at checkout.

Not showing?

• The block is not on the product template, or you didn’t click Save in the theme editor.
• The discount is not running yet. Check its dates.
• The product is not in the collection you picked.
• The discount uses Set fixed price or Limit the discount to a maximum amount. Widgets can’t show those.
• The discount needs a code or a minimum order. Use a Savings badge promotion for those.

See What it needs to appear and Widgets not showing.

Turn the widget on or off

In Promotions, use the row’s Storefront widgets switch. The discount keeps working at checkout.

Settings and limits

Limits:

• Set fixed price can’t show: “its discount value cannot be shown as a sale price or a badge.”
• With Limit the discount to a maximum amount on, widgets can’t show it. The saving would look bigger than it is.
• For widgets, Applies to must be all products, specific products, specific collections or specific variants. Tags, product types, SKUs and the “Exclude” options can’t show.
• AndOr Sale price needs a discount that lowers what a shopper pays for the product.