Schedule your Black Friday sale on Shopify

Black Friday prices should go live at the minute you announced and come back when the weekend is over. With Sale Scheduler you build the sale days before, review every variant, schedule the start and end, and the app restores your previous prices automatically.

Built and checked days before

Set up the price rule, compare-at and products early, review every variant, and fix Warning rows while there's time.

Starts and ends on schedule

Scheduled times are processed every minute, so nobody has to change prices at midnight.

Prices come back on their own

The previous prices are restored at the end. Variants you repriced during the weekend are skipped, not overwritten.

A countdown tied to the real end

Product pages can show how long the sale has left, and the timer disappears when it ends.

How do you set up a Black Friday sale in Sale Scheduler?

Decide the window in your customers' time zone, for example Friday 00:00 to Monday 23:59.
Create a sale: "Decrease price" by your discount, an ending such as .99, and "Set compare-at to original price".
Target the Black Friday collection or all products, and exclude new arrivals or items with thin margins.
Review every variant. Fix Warning and Skipped rows.
Choose "Schedule start and end", set the start and the end, and confirm.
Turn on the countdown in the theme editor if you want it on product pages.

Can different collections have different discounts?

Yes. Create one scheduled sale per discount level, for example 30% off outerwear and 15% off accessories, with the same start and end. Use exclusions so a product isn't in two sales. Each running scheduled sale uses one slot of your plan's "scheduled sales running at the same time" limit.

What about Cyber Monday or a second wave?

Schedule it as its own sale that starts after the first one ends. Because each sale restores its own previous prices, the second sale starts from your regular prices, not from Black Friday prices.

How do you protect your margin?

Check the margin after the discount for your lowest-margin products before you schedule. The free discount calculator shows the sale price, the margin left and the extra sales you need to break even. Then exclude anything that would sell at a loss.

Read the full Black Friday checklist for Shopify for stock, shipping cut-offs and communication.

Features you would use

LiveScheduling

Sale scheduler

Schedule a sale's start and end. Prices change at the start and the previous prices come back automatically at the end.

LivePricing rules

Compare-at price editor

Set, raise, lower or remove compare-at prices in bulk, so the right products show a crossed-out price.

LiveStorefront

Countdown timer

Show how long a scheduled sale has left on product pages, only while that variant is really on sale.

How early can I schedule a Black Friday sale?

Any time before it starts. Scheduled sales can't be edited after you schedule them, so finish the review first; if something changes, delete the sale and schedule a new one.

Will my Black Friday sale start exactly at midnight?

Within about a minute. Scheduled times are processed every minute, and a very large sale takes longer to finish applying, so schedule storewide sales a little early.

Does it work for White Friday in the Gulf?

Yes. The timing is the same; set the window in your customers' time zone. The app's admin is also available in Arabic.

How many variants can I put on sale?

As many as your plan's monthly changes allow (5,000 on Starter, 50,000 on Growth, 250,000 on Agency). Broad selections are reviewed up to 500 products and 2,500 variants at a time, so split very large catalogs into several sales.

Run your next sale without the spreadsheet

Install Sale Scheduler from the Shopify App Store, build a sale, and review every price before it goes live. The free allowance lets you try it on a few variants first.

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