Setting up scheduled promotions in Abra allows you to automatically launch and end promotions at specific dates and times. Scheduled promotions help you plan ahead for sales events, product launches, and seasonal campaigns without needing to manually turn promotions on and off.
With Abra's scheduling feature, you can set up Black Friday sales weeks in advance, launch flash sales at peak traffic hours, or automatically end limited-time offers to create urgency. This ensures your promotions go live exactly when you want them to, even if you're not available to manually activate them.
Important:
You can only have one public promotion active at a time. If you schedule a new public promotion, it will override any previously active one when it goes live.
How to Set it up
- Within Abra, navigate to your Public promotion
- Within the Discount settings, add a start date and time
- Then, enable the “Set end date” checkbox if you want the discount to automatically deactivate. Select the date and time when it should end.
- Save your discount
Turning off your promotion
Set a specific End Date to automatically turn off and expire the promotion. End Dates within the discount are required to turn off a promotion on the storefront and at checkout.
By setting a promotion to Draft, it turns off dynamic pricing and hides the Storefront Blocks, but customers can still use discount codes or access private links.
- Setting promotion to Draft: Hides storefront blocks but discount codes/links still work
- Adding an End Date: Turns off the discount & completely prevents the discount from being used
FAQs
Q: What happens if I have multiple discounts scheduled for the same time?
A: You can have many private promotions at any time and you can schedule multiple promotions to go public in the future but only one will be live at any time.
Q: What timezone are scheduled promotions based on?
A: Scheduled promotions use your store's default timezone, but you can select a different timezone when setting up the schedule if needed.
Q: Can I have multiple public promotions?
A: Only one Public Promotion can be active at a time but you can use our Multi-Class Discount to combine multiple “classes” of discounts into a single promotion.