Price promotions are a great way to drive orders, acquire new customers and also boost your visibility on Yumbles (find out more below). In the Seller Portal there is a Promotions page available for you to schedule and run your own price promotion whenever you choose to AND also to opt into Yumbles major promotions like the Winter Sale and Black Friday.
This guide explains how to use this tool to run your own price promotions, and how it works with opting into Yumbles planned promotions.
RUNNING YOUR OWN PRICE PROMOTIONS
If you schedule a price promotion on Yumbles using the Promotions page in the Seller Portal your chosen products are:
- automatically discounted for you at 12:01am on the start date that you specify, and then automatcaly reverted back to their original pricing at 11:59pm on the end date that you specify.
- automatically included in the highly visible Offers section of the site during your promotion period,
- automatically considered for inclusion in Yumbles marketing (e.g. homepage features, email marketing, social media). We look to feature as many strong offers each month as we can.
Setting up a price promotion
To schedule and run your own Price Promotions:
1. Go to the dedicated Promotions page in the Seller Portal under the Marketing section.
2. Click on the New Promotion button.
Fill in the following fields:
Name: this is for your internal use only
Discount: simply choose the % from the drop down menu
Start: first day of promotion, start time will be 00:01am
End: last day, end time will be 11:59pm
Products: choose All for your promotion to apply to your entire range or select specific products. The list available will include Hidden and Disabled listings however the promotion will not activate your listings for you.
3. Click "Create".
If you create a promotion that is to start the same day give it up to an hour after you have created it, for it to become Active (it will be in a temporary Pending Activation state at first). Otherwise, your promotion status will show as Scheduled and become Active from 00:01am on the Start Date.
Once a promotion is Active the listings specified to be part of the promotion will all be automatically discounted by the % indicated in the promotion. The discount will be applied to the amount shown on that date in the Price field (not the List Price/ RRP field). The % discount shown to buyers will be as always the full % difference between the List Price/ RRP field and the now discounted Price field.
Tip: make sure that the price fields for your listings are correct (pe-promotion prices) before you set-up a scheduled promotion. Also, don’t forget to check and update your stock levels before the start date of a promotion.
Ending a price promotion
At midnight on the End Date the prices of the discounted products will be automatically reverted back to what had been the value in the Price fields before the promotion started. You don't need to do a thing.
However, if you need to, you can stop a promotion running before the end date simply by selecting the status "Disable" next to the promotion. You will need to allow up to an hour for your listings to be updated and the prices reverted back.
Note: if you have manually edited any prices of your products while a promotion with them is running then the prices will NOT be reverted for you at the end of the promotion period. You will need to manually amend the prices when the promotion is over.
Multiple Different Promotions
You can schedule multiple promotions to run at different times following the steps above. However it is not currently possible to run more than one promotion with any overlap of dates.
If you wish to have different discounts applied to your products at the same time then it is recommended to create a promotion with the minimum % scheduled for all of the relevant products and then manually adjust the prices of any products that should have a higher discount - at the start of the promotion, and then revert them manually at the end of the promotion.
Promotions for Some Product Variants only
The Promotions tool will discount all product variants in your listings.
If you only want to discount particular variants (e.g. you want to offer 50% off a 500g product variant only) you will need to run it as a manual promotion by editing the pricing of the listing(s) directly from the Products page, when you want the promotion to run (and then manually changing prices back again afterwards).
You cannot use this Promotions scheduler tool for promotions that don't apply to all variants in a listing.
Whenever editing your prices, particularly when there's variants, make sure to use the Preview button once you have saved your changes to check the prices are being calculated correctly for each variant. Remember that the Price field in your listing is the price for the default product variant - then for other variants their price modifiers (i.e. what is added to or deducted from the Price if they are selected) are stated within the Option itself.
A % discount will be automatically shown and calculated by the difference between the Price field and your List Price/ RRP price field. Therefore make sure that the default (first position) product variant is one that is discounted.
YUMBLES PROMOTIONS
At various times through the year Yumbles plan big promotional campaigns that you can choose whether you want to participate in or not. For example - Black Friday and the January Sale.
These campaigns will have a lot of marketing exposure for the duration of the campaign period onsite, in email marketing, social media and more.
You will see the planned campaigns appear in the “Yumbles Promotions” section of the Promotions page and receive notification for new ones when they are scheduled.
The Pending status indicates that you will need to confirm if you want to participate or not.
You are able to choose if you wish to include some or all of your products in the promotion and also choose the % discount. We usually recommend a discount of at least 20% to have impact, and for this reason we typically only feature offers of at least 20% off in marketing.
If you confirm you want to participate the status of these promotions will change to Scheduled and work exactly as per your own created promotions i.e your products will be automatically discounted for you on the start date, and reverted on the end date.
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