Setting sale prices for products

You can manually set sale prices for individual products without using discount codes.

When you put a product on sale for a lower price, you might want your customers to be able to view the original price to understand the price comparison. To show a sale price in your online store, your product details need to include a Compare-at price which displays both the sale price and the original price.

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You can also offer customers reduced prices at checkout by creating a discount code. This doesn't affect the displayed prices of your products.

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Displaying sale prices

When you set a compare-at price, the product listing updates on your online store to show that the item is on sale. The way that a sale price is shown depends on the theme that your online store is using, for example, you might see a Sale label on the product image. Typically, the way that sale prices are shown depends on whether:

• your product has variants at different prices
• the item is a single-variant product, or its variant prices are identical

Images for sale items with variants at different prices

For a product with variants whose prices are not identical, the lowest sale price is indicated.

Sale prices for single-variant products or products with identically-priced variants

For a single-variant product, or a product whose variant prices are all identical, the original and sale prices are shown as a comparison.

Set a compare-at price for a product

Steps:

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1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products.

2. Click the product that you want to edit.

3. In the Pricing section, do the following:

   1. In the Compare-at price field, enter the product's original price.
   2. In the Price field, enter the product's new sale price.
   3. Make sure that the value in the Compare-at price field is higher than the value in the Price field to display the sale price.

4. Click Save.

Set a compare-at price for a variant

Desktop

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products.

2. Click the product that you want to edit.

3. In the Variants section, click the variant that you want to set the compare-at price for.

4. In the Pricing section, do the following:

   1. In the Compare-at price field, enter the product's original price.
   2. In the Price field, enter the product's new sale price.
   3. Make sure that the value in the Compare-at price field is higher than the value in Price field to display the sale price.

5. Click Save.