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Scheduled discounts fail to start at set time

Scheduled sales and price changes in Shopify discount apps fail to start at their set time, so planned promotions never go live

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

6 public reports · first reported 27 November 2017 · last reported 8 June 2026

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

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What's going wrong

Merchants using several Shopify discount and bulk price apps report that scheduled sales and price changes do not take effect at their set time.

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 6 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.