Marketplace - Scheduled Sale/Discount Feature
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Bcreative Wilde
I think it would be a huge help if the Marketplace had a scheduled sale feature. Something where we could choose specific items, categories, or even our whole store, set a discount, and pick the start and end dates so the sale runs on its own. No more going through each product and editing them one by one, which takes forever.
It would be great if we could set either a percentage off or a fixed sale price. Once the sale is active, the discounted items could even show up in a special Sale tab so shoppers can find them all in one place.
With Black Friday coming up soon, this feels like the perfect time for a feature like this. It would save creators a lot of time and make running seasonal or limited-time sales much easier. I think sales should have a required start and end date, with a reasonable limit of around 5 Weeks to keep people from abusing the sale feature.
I really think this would be a win for both creators and shoppers.
If anyone else would love to see this added or have additional ideas to add on this topic please do!
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xaka Chayoo
Yes if there is a limit to the number of sales and the duration period of said sales
jackiewallace Resident
With proper regulation, the introduction of such a feature would make sense. The events and classifieds found in the search are also full of content that is no longer current, which is why good rules are important. Let’s suppose the feature is introduced and users could search for discounted products. What would some people’s response be? All of my products will be on sale all year long. So this would only make sense if announcing a sale were limited. For example: within a 3-month interval, a product could only be on sale for one week.
Cube Republic
It seems like a good idea at first, then everything is a scheduled sale and it becomes meaningless noise. In my opinion,.
Samual Wetherby
Agree. Have thought for years. MP needed a major update on how vendors display their products. Sale items, multi purchase discounts and more. Heck, LL bought CasperVend, all that's already built in and somewhat they are integrated with MP. Make Marketplace more viable instead of the weekly/monthly sale events.
Jade Nova
This would be SUCH an incredibly useful tool. I would propose a shorter time minimum though because I don't think I've ever run a sale that lasted anywhere near 5 weeks and I would not use this feature if that's the lowest amount of time it could be for. I think a 24 hour minimum might be better since a lot of stores do flash sales, but I'm also not sure exactly how it could be abused either? What would having a high minimum time prevent?
I'd also really love for this feature to be extended to CasperVend. I HATE the way sales run on Casper. The person has to pay full price and they will be auto-refunded the difference, which requires a bit of trust in the creator that they have the sale still active and if the person is a new customer, that trust may not be established yet. Even worse, is if there's a hiccup in the system that does not auto-refund them and then they're mad and that trust is broken.
I would love for this option on MP as well as Casper to show us a text list of all of our products with a check box next to each one where we can choose which products are included in a sale, as well as have the choice of a percentage off or an exact price. I'd also want to be able to set different parameters for individual products if we wanted to run multiple sales at once such as 20% off individual colors along with 50% off fatpacks or something like that.
This being extended to CasperVend would be seriously helpful though. There's never been an option to just select specific products to put on sale, it's always been either everything or having to go into individual products and change prices or add in discounts (which still function as being auto-refunded the difference rather than seeing it reflected in the price when clicking/paying the vendor).
Bcreative Wilde
Jade Nova oh I think you misunderstood the 5 week limit I was suggesting was max sales time so people don't run a year long sale abusing the system.. so yea minimum 24 for flash sales to max like 4-5 weeks (just in case someone was doing a monthly/seasonal Sale). I don't use caspervend myself so I didn't include any suggestions for connecting them. Great added ideas for casper users though would be helpful to those that do. Thanks for your added suggestions!
Foxy Ruby
Wonderful idea.
Nel4481 Resident
Great idea, a big step forward, but this requires a lot of work on development, don't expect it to be effective immediately
DelinaMarly Resident
Oh looks good!
KarlosKrls Ahren
Perfect!
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