Questions merchants ask

SalePilot schedules Shopify sales that start and end on their own, then puts every original price back. You set a start, an end and a time zone once. At the start it lowers each price and moves the original into compare-at; at the end it restores the exact original price and compare-at price, and the revert report lists every variant with Was, Now and Status.

No. SalePilot runs on any Shopify plan, Free and Pro alike.

Yes. Sale prices are set on the products themselves, so your theme shows them as it shows any price, with the original as the crossed-out compare-at price. The optional countdown bar is a theme app embed: turn on “SalePilot bar” under Online Store → Themes → Customize → App embeds.

You set a start date and time, an end date and time and a time zone, and SalePilot runs the sale from its server. Each sale keeps the time zone you pick, and your store’s zone is the default. Prices apply and revert within about a minute of the scheduled time, whether or not you are logged in. Saving a sale doesn’t start it: press “Schedule this sale”, or “Start sale now” to skip the start time.

The original prices come back on their own at the end time. SalePilot restores each variant’s original price and compare-at price and lists every one in the revert report. A price you changed by hand during the sale is left as you set it and listed as “Skipped (diverged)”; a price it could not confirm is listed as “Flagged”. Every sale has an end time, so none can be forgotten, and “Panic revert now” ends a sale at once.

Two: a percentage OFF, or a quantity break. A percentage OFF, from 1% to 100%, applies to a collection, chosen products or chosen variants and changes the price itself; “See the price changes first” lists each variant’s old and new price before anything goes live. A quantity break (buy more, save more) runs as a Shopify automatic discount at checkout, so it is not previewed.

Yes, four. The Free plan applies 1 sale event per calendar month; Pro has no monthly limit. A rule covers up to 100 variants per product, and a collection rule up to 250 products in that collection. When two rules in one sale hit the same variant, the deepest discount wins and the overlapping rules report shows it. SalePilot can only restore prices it changed itself.

SalePilot changes the real price and puts it back for you; a Shopify discount never changes the price, and by hand you do both ends yourself. A Shopify automatic discount can have a start and an end date, but it applies at checkout and leaves product prices alone, so how it shows depends on your theme. A bulk edit or CSV import changes prices, but you run the start and the end yourself, at the right minute. SalePilot records each original price and compare-at price first, then applies and restores them on schedule.

SalePilot is free for 1 applied sale event a month, and Pro costs $9.99 a month for unlimited sales. Pro yearly is $95.90 a year, 20% OFF the monthly price. Both plans have every feature, Pro starts with a 7-day free trial, and prices are in USD, billed through Shopify.

Only the first 50 stores get it. In SalePilot, open Plans, choose Pro monthly and type EARLYBF50 in “Discount code (optional)”. Your 7-day free trial still applies, and the first bill after it is half price.

Yes, from the plans page or your Shopify billing settings. It takes effect straight away, Shopify credits the unused part of the bill, and you go back to the Free plan.

SalePilot stores your sale events, their rules, a record of each price it changed and order totals by order number, never your shoppers’ personal data. The price record is what lets it put prices back. If you uninstall, charges stop and Shopify asks SalePilot to delete your store’s data, which happens 48 hours after uninstall. End any live sale first: uninstalling doesn’t put prices back.