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Running sales and bulk price changes can't be stopped

Merchants cannot stop, cancel, or switch off a scheduled or running sale or bulk price change once it has started, even when it is wrong or stuck.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

10 public reports · first reported 22 June 2017 · last reported 1 March 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Merchants across several Shopify sale, discount, and bulk-editing apps report that once a scheduled or running promotion or price change starts, they cannot stop, cancel, or switch it off.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 10 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.