Set up rules that price your inventory for you — based on how old it is, how it is selling, what the market is asking, and what you paid.
Where to find it: Open Pricing Rules in AIM — you will be asked to sign in first.
What you can do here
- Price by a formula instead of by hand, e.g. “match the lowest market ask, minus 3%”
- Discount stock that has been sitting, without going below what you paid
- React to how something is selling: sell-through rate, days listed, days since the last price change
- Set a payout instead of a price, so you control what actually lands in your pocket
- Preview the new prices before anything changes, then push them to Shopify
How to: Discount stock that has been sitting too long
- Create a rule named something obvious, such as “Age discount 90+ days”.
- Add the condition “Oldest Inventory Age” is greater than 90.
- Add a second condition “30-Day Sales Count” is less than 1, so you only discount what is not moving.
- Add the action “Adjust Tier Price” by -10%.
- Add a “Floor Payout” condition so the discount can never take you below what you paid.
- Preview it. Read the list of items and their new prices before you run it.
A pair bought at 180andlistedat240 for 120 days drops to 216,andstopstherebecausethefloorpayoutissetat190.
How to: Follow the market instead of guessing
- Create a rule and add the condition “Minimum Market Ask” is greater than 0, so it only applies where you have market data.
- Add the action “Set Payout” or “Set Tier Price” based on the market ask.
- Decide how far under the market you want to sit, and set the percentage.
- Preview, check a handful of well-known models by eye, then run it.
The lowest market ask on a Dunk Low Panda is 118,andyourrulepricesitat114 — just under, without a race to the bottom.
How to: Protect yourself from an over-aggressive rule
- Open the rule that is discounting too hard.
- Add a “Floor Payout” condition, set to the least you will accept.
- If you also want a ceiling, add “Ceiling Payout”.
- Lower the rule’s Priority number so it runs before broader rules.
- Preview again and confirm no item falls below your floor.
Two discount rules were both firing on the same pair and stacking, so it dropped 20% instead of 10%. A floor payout stops the second one from mattering.
Good to know
- Every discounting rule should have a floor. It is the one setting that turns an aggressive rule from dangerous into safe.
- Pricing rules set prices. Product Rules set up tags and product details; Listing Rules decide where things get listed.
- Preview costs nothing and changes nothing. Read the new prices for a few products you know well before running the rule on everything.
- Lower priority numbers run first, so protective rules should have the lowest numbers.
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