Discount/promotion scheduling and management

Purpose

1.1. Collectibles store automates the process of launching, scheduling, managing, and pausing discounts or promotions across SKUs, collections, and customer segments.
1.2. Automatedly applies rules for recurring sales, flash events, seasonal campaigns, exclusive offers, or clearance, saving manual labor and decreasing human error.
1.3. Automator ensures synchronized promotion visibility on e-commerce storefronts, marketplaces, in-store POS systems, and digital marketing channels.
1.4. Enables automating eligibility checks (stock, margin, customer group), multi-channel timing, and automated post-promotion price resets or reporting.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Time-based triggers (e.g., scheduled calendar date/times, holiday triggers, anniversary triggers).
2.2. Inventory-based automations (e.g., when stock falls below/above a threshold, excess stock identified).
2.3. Campaign-based automator (e.g., direct trigger from marketing calendar or campaign plan).
2.4. Rule-based event triggers (e.g., user segment login, previous purchase, abandoned cart, VIP recognition).
2.5. Integration-based triggers (e.g., webhook received from CRM or ERP with customer or market data).

Platform Variants

3.1. Shopify
• Feature: Price Rules/Discount API — automate creation and scheduling of discounts via Admin API (POST /price_rules).
3.2. WooCommerce
• Feature: Coupon REST API — automates coupon and promotion code deployment via POST /wp-json/wc/v3/coupons.
3.3. Magento Commerce
• Feature: Catalog & Cart Price Rules — automate rule creation via REST API (POST /V1/salesRules).
3.4. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Feature: Promotions API — automates campaign scheduling and management via OCAPI hooks (PATCH /dw/shop/v21_3/promotions).
3.5. BigCommerce
• Feature: Price Lists API — automator for bulk discounted pricing and timed price lists (POST /v3/pricelists).
3.6. PrestaShop
• Feature: Webservice "PriceRule" — automates generating vouchers via /api/price_rules POST.
3.7. Neto
• Feature: Promotions API — automate discount event scheduling via /api/v2/promotion POST.
3.8. Squarespace
• Feature: Commerce Discounts — automate discount code creation via Commerce API (POST /discounts).
3.9. Wix Stores
• Feature: Coupon/Discount API — automates management of sales with POST /stores/v1/coupons.
3.10. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature: Discount and Price Rules API — automator for automating timed sales (POST /API/DiscountRules).
3.11. Vend (now Lightspeed POS)
• Feature: Promotions Endpoint — automate creation and scheduling via POST /api/2.0/promotions.
3.12. Square Online
• Feature: Discounts API — automate campaign setup with POST /v2/discounts.
3.13. OpenCart
• Feature: Coupon Management API — automate coupon generation POST /index.php?route=api/coupon/add.
3.14. SAP Commerce Cloud
• Feature: Promotions Engine — automates discount rules via RESTful PromotionRuleService API.
3.15. Oracle Commerce
• Feature: Promotions Web Services — automate via POST Promotion REST endpoint.
3.16. Zoho Commerce
• Feature: Coupons API — automates scheduling and lifecycle of discounts (POST /api/discounts).
3.17. Ecwid
• Feature: Promo Codes API — automate recurring discounts via POST /v3/promocodes.
3.18. Clover
• Feature: Promotions API — automates custom promotions (POST /v3/merchant/{mId}/promos).
3.19. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Feature: REST API — automate segmentation and coupon distribution (POST /marketing/discounts).
3.20. Mailchimp
• Feature: E-commerce Automation — triggers discount code campaigns when promotional automator is activated (via POST /ecommerce/stores/{store_id}/promo-codes).
3.21. Slack (for alerting/approval)
• Feature: Incoming Webhooks — automated trigger to send promo scheduling alerts/approvals (POST to Channel).
3.22. Zapier
• Feature: Multi-step Zap — automate chaining discount creation across retail systems and notify via webhook or email.

Benefits

4.1. Streamlined, automated discount roll-outs, eliminates repetitive manual setup.
4.2. Reduces pricing errors and oversight; automator ensures rules stick to pre-set logic.
4.3. Centralizes and automates multi-channel synchronization for promotions.
4.4. Promotes agility — launches, pauses, or stops campaigns automatically as inventory, schedule, or priorities shift.
4.5. Enables automating reporting and campaign analytics for rapid optimization.