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Running Sales & Promotions on Inventory Items

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Published July 2, 2026

What a Sale Does

A sale lets you temporarily lower an item's price for a set period. You can offer a fixed sale price or a percentage discount, and the sale ends by itself when its timer runs out. It is promotional pricing only, your regular sell price, cost, wholesale price, and financial reports are never changed.

Note

Because a sale never overwrites your regular price, you can start and stop promotions freely without any risk to your pricing or accounting data.

Enabling a Sale

The Sale / Promotion section appears on both the Add Item and Edit Item screens. For simple products it's on the Add form; for variable products, open the item's Edit page.

  1. Open the item you want to promote, either while adding a new simple product, or from the Edit page of an existing item.
  2. Find the Sale / Promotion card.
  3. Turn on the Enable sale toggle to reveal the sale options.

Choosing a Sale Price or a Discount %

Pick how the discount is expressed. A fixed Sale Price is an exact amount; a Discount % takes a percentage off the regular price and Fixmo works out the final price for you.

  1. Choose 'Sale price' to enter an exact amount (in whole rupees). It must be greater than 0 and less than the regular price.
  2. Or choose 'Discount %' and enter a whole number between 1 and 99. Fixmo calculates the final sale price and rounds it to a whole amount.
  3. The Regular Price is shown next to your input for reference.

Warning

A sale price that is equal to or higher than the regular price is rejected, a sale must actually reduce the price.

Setting How Long the Sale Runs

Sales are timed. You set a duration from now, in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, and Fixmo works out the exact end time. Most of the time you'll just fill in Days and leave the rest at 0.

  1. Enter the number of Days the sale should run.
  2. Optionally fine-tune with Hours, Minutes, and Seconds.
  3. The sale must run for at least 1 hour in total.

Previewing the Sale

As you set things up, the preview panel updates live so you know exactly what customers will see.

  • The final Sale Price and how much is saved (amount and percentage).
  • The exact date and time the sale will end.
  • A live 'time remaining' countdown that ticks down as you watch.

Discounts on Variable Products

For a variable product, a percentage discount applies to all of its variants at once. Each variant's sale price is calculated from its own regular price, so a 15% discount takes 15% off each variant individually. Set the discount from the parent product's Edit page.

Tip

Percentage discounts are ideal for variable products because they scale correctly across variants that are priced differently.

Editing or Ending a Sale Early

A sale isn't set in stone. You can adjust the price, the discount, or the duration at any time, or end it immediately.

  1. Open the item's Edit page. The current sale is shown with its remaining time.
  2. Change the sale price, discount %, or duration and save to update it.
  3. To end a sale immediately, turn the Enable sale toggle off and save, the item returns to its regular price right away.

Frequently asked questions

No. A sale is promotional display pricing only. Your regular sell price, cost price, wholesale price, and every financial report stay exactly as they are. When the sale ends, the item simply shows its regular price again, nothing is overwritten.

A sale price is a fixed amount you set directly, for example, Rs 3,900 on an item that normally sells for Rs 4,500. A discount percentage takes a percent off the regular price, for example, 15% off, which Fixmo calculates and rounds to a whole amount for you. Choose whichever is easier for the promotion you're running.

No. Every sale has an end time that you set as a duration (days, hours, minutes, and seconds from now). When the timer runs out, the sale ends on its own and the item returns to its regular price automatically.

A sale must run for at least 1 hour. Beyond that there's no upper limit, you can run a one-hour flash sale or a multi-week promotion. Fixmo rejects any duration under an hour with a clear message.

On a variable product you set a percentage discount on the parent, and it applies to every variant, each calculated from that variant's own price. This keeps the discount fair across variants that are priced differently.

Yes, for simple products the Sale / Promotion section is available on the Add Item form. For variable products you create the product first, then add the discount from the item's Edit page, since each variant needs its own price before the discount can be applied.