Etsy Sale. . .

Etsy has finally done something right.  😄  Joking but only a little, Etsy has added the ability to have a "sale" not just coupon codes.  I have over the years tried to use the coupon code option, but try as I might no one ever used them I would create them and publish them and promote them on Facebook and elsewhere and yet no one ever used them. 😩  Literally like 1 person once in 2 years, so sad, the most ineffective promo system.

The new "sale tools" allow for automatic price changes, you can do individual listings, sections or the whole shop, you can run multiple "sales" at once so different things can be discounted at different levels. You can still have/use coupon codes but the system won't allow double discounts it will automatically use which ever give the best discount.  So if one were to try to use my "THANKYOU" code it wouldn't work right now because the shop wide sale I'm currently running is 20% which is more than the 15% coupon code.

I set up a "SALE" to test the new stuff, to see what it looks like, how they would note the discount, display other info, etc.  While it's not exactly perfect it's not bad either, it does the strike-through so it shows the original price and the discounted price if there is a direct set amount.  I think the signs could be brighter, flashier but they did add a filter feature to search to look for things "on sale". 

Currently I'm set up for 20% off any order over $20, I was just testing things in the settings and that's where I landed.  

Etsy has encouraged sellers to set up "Labor Day" sales because they are doing a big site promotion for the holiday, I set up a tiered sale for that.  So the shop wide 20% off will end soon and the "Labor Day Sale" will kick in, which will be 10% off wire trees and 15% off select chainmaille jewelry.

So seriously take advantage of the 20% off now because it ends on 8-30 and I will not likely offer this much of a discount again for quite some time. 😉

Of course they just released this new feature so if there are any bugs or you have any problems please let me know.  😇