Alpha Sale Help for Shopify: Bulk Price Editor and Flash Sales

The install is a standard Shopify App Store install, and the per-sale configuration is no-code. The paid work is picking the right plan for the catalog, modelling the discount depth against margin, setting the stacking rules so sales and coupons don't collide, and running the launch cleanly so prices revert when the window closes.

Plan picked against unique-product count. Alpha Sale caps unique products per month by plan — 10 on Free, 100 on Basic ($9.99), 500 on Pro ($17.99), unlimited on Ultimate ($25.99 or $234/year). The number that matters is how many distinct products you'll run a sale on each month, not your total catalog size. A 10,000-SKU store that runs a flash sale on 60 hero products a month is a Basic plan; the same store running a sitewide sale is Ultimate. The expert work is reading the sales calendar first and sizing the plan against it.

Discount depth against margin. The strategy call before any configuration is how deep to go. A 20% off hero sale on a 60% gross margin product keeps gross dollars healthy; the same 20% on a 40% margin SKU is a quarter of the margin gone. The expert work is modelling it product by product (or category by category for large catalogs) rather than running one flat percentage across the board.

Bulk price editor and variant selection. The bulk editor sets sale prices across variants, collections, vendors, product types or tags. On the Basic plan and above, advanced customer and product targeting unlocks — a sale that only shows to a specific customer tag, or a discount that only applies on variants matching a particular option value. The setup work is translating a merchandising brief ("20% off summer hats except the limited editions") into a selection rule the app can run cleanly.

Scheduled sales, flash sales and recurring sales. Sales run with start and end dates and revert automatically. The expert work is the schedule itself — BFCM windows, Mother's Day, back-to-school — and the operational checks: a dry-run before the real window, a confirmation that the compare-at price shows crossed out at checkout, a post-sale check that prices restored. Flash sales benefit from being tested on a hidden product first.

Volume discount tables on product pages. Tiered pricing ("buy 3 save 10%, buy 5 save 15%") shows as a table on the product page. The setup work is deciding the tiers against AOV targets — a two-tier table (buy 2 and buy 4) often outperforms a four-tier table that fragments attention — and placing the table where it's visible without pushing the add-to-cart below the fold.

Coupon blocking and stacking rules (Basic and up). Sale items can be excluded from discount codes so a 20% off welcome code doesn't apply on top of a 30% off sale. On the Ultimate plan, leaked-coupon blocking rules stop a code that gets shared on a deal site from being redeemed off-site. The setup work is auditing the current discount code library, deciding which codes are allowed to stack on sale items and which aren't, and configuring the rules against the merchant's actual promotion playbook.

Market-level pricing (Ultimate). For stores running Shopify Markets with fixed-price locales, Ultimate syncs sale prices across markets so a flash sale drops the UK and the EU and the US together, without three separate configurations. The expert work is confirming the market setup first (fixed-price markets are a specific Shopify Markets setting), then running the first synced sale as a test.

Launch and revert testing. A proper launch pass: a test purchase during the sale window to confirm the discount applies at checkout and the compare-at price shows, a second test after the window closes to confirm the regular price restored, and a check on cached pages (collection grids, Google Shopping feeds) that the sale price surfaces where it should.

Ongoing merchandising discipline. For stores running sales every month, this is retainer work: the sales calendar is built out, the model updated against last period's realised margin, the bulk-edit prepared ahead of each window, and post-sale a quick read of what moved and what didn't.

Alpha Sale setup is Shopify operations and merchandising work: plan sizing, discount strategy, stacking rules, scheduled-sale operations, and the ongoing cadence of running sales each month without eroding margin. Ranges below reflect general Shopify setup, operations and CRO rates as of October 2026.

Four plans, flat monthly pricing. As of October 2026: Free ($0, 10 unique products a month, 1 active campaign), Basic ($9.99 a month, 100 unique products, unlimited campaigns, advanced customer and product targeting, coupons and volume discounts, sale items excluded from discount codes), Pro ($17.99 a month, 500 unique products, same features as Basic), and Ultimate ($25.99 a month or $234 a year with 25% saving, unlimited products, plus discount code blocking rules and sale-price sync for fixed-price Shopify markets). A 3-day free trial on paid plans. Charges are USD, billed every 30 days.

Built for Shopify. Alpha Sale carries the Built for Shopify badge, which Shopify grants only to apps that meet its own standards for performance, design and integration.

Bulk price editing with real compare-at prices. Sale prices are set in bulk and show the original crossed-out at checkout and on the storefront. Because the app writes the compare-at price Shopify's native product record actually uses, downstream channels (Google Shopping feeds, Shop Pay, cached storefront pages) see the sale correctly. When the sale window closes, prices revert automatically.

Flexible selection. Discounts target products, variants, collections, vendors, product types or tags. On Basic and above, advanced customer and product targeting adds customer-tag conditions and variant-option-value rules.

Scheduled, flash and recurring sales. Sales run with start and end dates. Recurring windows (every Friday, every month) are supported. For flash sales, the launch is time-boxed and the revert is automatic — so a flash sale announced for a 6-hour window actually ends at 6 hours.

Volume discount tables. Quantity-based discounts (buy 3 save 10%, buy 5 save 15%) appear as a tiered pricing table on product pages, which the shopper sees before adding to cart. This is a different mechanic from a cart-level discount — the price case is made on the product page, not after a quantity change triggers it in cart.

Coupon blocking and stacking controls. Sale items can be excluded from discount codes, so a 20% welcome code doesn't apply on top of a 30% sale. On Ultimate, discount code blocking rules let you block leaked codes that get shared on deal sites — these blocking rules are Ultimate-only.

Shopify Markets sync (Ultimate). For stores publishing fixed-price Shopify markets (US, UK, EU, say), the Ultimate plan syncs sale prices across markets so one sale configuration applies across all. Non-fixed-price markets (currency-conversion markets) fall outside this.

Works with Checkout and Shopify Admin. No POS, Shopify Flow, or customer accounts integration listed. For a POS-first store, note that sale prices still flow through to POS via the native Shopify product record.

Multi-language. App interface in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish — which suits European and multi-market merchants native to those languages.

Reviews and launch date. Launched 22 November 2022, so the app is mature. 4.9 rating across 312 reviews as of October 2026, with 297 five-stars, 4 four-stars, 2 three-stars, 2 two-stars and 7 one-stars. One recurring one-star theme: merchants being prompted for a paid plan when they expected Free — the vendor's reply thread flags this as a bug tied to a previous paid-plan uninstall, not intended behaviour, worth being aware of if you're uninstalling and reinstalling.

Most Alpha Sale engagements fit one of these shapes. Pick the one closest to yours when you brief a Shopify setup, operations or CRO specialist.