Flash Sales

Flash Sales Page Logic

  1. Whenever Flash Sales is created, a page will be created within your store. You DO NOT need to create the page manually. The URL of the Flash Sales page will be displayed here:

To learn how to link the Flash Sales page onto your home page, please refer to this step.

  1. The flash sales page serves to feature any existing discount rules. It will not affect the start and end date of the existing discount rules.

For example:
Discount rules is setup to start at 10:00am, 1st November 2022 to 10:00am, 30th November 2022

Flash Sales is setup to showcase the discount rules from 1pm to 2pm on 10th November 2022.

The Flash Sales page will only showcase this discount code within 1pm to 2pm on 10th November 2022. However, once the flash sales expire the discounts will still be active until 30th November 2022.

  1. To ensure consistency in the flash sales presentation, if the selected discount code has an existing countdown timer, it will be temporarily disabled and be replaced by the Flash Sales countdown timer.


Step 1 – Enable Flash Sales


First, go to the Flash Sales page in the Bulk Discount and Sales Manager app:


On the Flash Sales page, activate the toggle to enable Flash Sales.


Once enabled, you can proceed to setup Flash Sales period based on the following options:


Step 2 – Flash Sales Period

a) Custom Timing

For custom timing, you can create one or more flash sales within a custom time period of your choosing.


First select Add Timing to begin setting up the flash sales.


Next, setup the timings of your flash sales

  1. Enter the Start Date and Time of the Flash Sales. If you schedule the flash sales to run on a future date, the timer at your flash sales page will countdown to the Start Date and Time of the Flash Sales:
  1. Enter the End Date and Time of the Flash Sales. If the Flash Sales is ongoing, the timer will countdown to when the Flash Sales will end.
  1. Select Browse discount rules to select the discount rules that you want to be highlighted in the Flash Sales page. You can select more than one discount rules.


Once the discount rule(s) is/are selected the timing will be automatically saved. If you wish to delete the flash timing select the bin icon:

If you wish to edit the timings, select the edit icon:

If you wish to add a new timing to the flash sales, you can select Add timing and repeat the steps 1 to 3.


This is how a Flash Sales with multiple timings will look like at the Flash Sales setup page:


If you had selected multiple rules for the Flash Sales and the one or more of the rules are disabled, the rule name will be in red font:


This is how a Flash Sales with multiple timings will look like at the store front:


b) Daily Timing

Select Daily Timing if you wish to have the Flash Sales to repeat at the same time daily.

First select Add Timing to begin setting up the flash sales.


Next, setup the start and end time of this flash sale:

  1. Enter the Start Time of the Flash Sales. If you schedule the flash sales to run on a future date, the timer at your flash sales page will countdown to the Start Time of the Flash Sales:
  1. Enter the End Date and Time of the Flash Sales. If the Flash Sales is ongoing, the timer will countdown to when the Flash Sales will end.
  1. Select Browse discount rules to select the discount rules that you want to be highlighted in the Flash Sales page.


Once the discount rules is selected the timing will be automatically saved. If you wish to delete the flash timing select the bin icon:


If you wish to edit the timings, select the edit icon:


If you wish to add a new timing to the flash sales, you can select Add timing and repeat the steps 1 to 3.


This is how a Flash Sales with multiple timings will look like at the Flash Sales setup page:


This is how a Flash Sales with multiple timings will look like at the store front:


c) Repeat Weekly/Monthly/Yearly

If you want the Flash Sales to be repeated either by weekly, monthly or yearly you can select either from the following options:


If you select weekly, you are required to set the Start Day and End Day of the Week (for example repeat flash sales every Monday to Wednesday).


Whereas, selecting Monthly will require you to select the Start Date and End Date of the Month (for example repeat flash sales every 1st to 7th of the month):


And for Yearly you are required to select the Start Day/Month and End Day/Month (for example repeat flash sales every year from 1st January to 15 January:


In all cases, you can create more than one timing.


Step 3 – Flash Sales Design Settings

After setting up the Flash Sales period, you can customize the color scheme of the Flash Sales page’s design. Simply click on the section that you wish to configure and proceed to change the color settings from there:

Once you had completed setting up a section, move on the other sections:

To customize the default FLASH DEALS text in the banner, you can change it by following step 3(a) here.

Step 4 – Flash Sales Product Page

Next, you are required to setup the flash sales countdown timer onto the product page.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the discount rules has an existing countdown timer enabled, it will be temporarily disabled to and be replaced by this countdown timer to ensure consistency in the flash sales presentation.

  1. First, select the flash sales countdown timer design. You can change the color scheme after selection. See step 3 for more information.
  2. Next, select the location that you wish to display the countdown timer on the product page. To setup, select the Select button:


This will lead you to the product page.Hold SHIFT key on your keyboard and select the position that you wish to place the countdown timer. Proceed to select Save once you are done.


IMPORTANT NOTE: If your store is still in development mode and is password protected, you are required to key in the password and repeat the above steps again.


This is an example of how it will look like on the Product page:

  1. You can set the color scheme of the countdown timer here. Different timers will have different settings depending on the dependencies.
    • To change the default FLASH DEALS text, you can customize it at the Label Text field:


Step 5 – Flash Sales Banner (Optional)

This optional step will place the Flash Sales banner onto your Home Page.

  1. Select the location in your home page that you wish to display the Flash Sales banner by selecting the Select button:


This will lead you to the Home Page.Hold SHIFT key on your keyboard and select the position that you wish to place the banner. Proceed to select Save once you are done.


IMPORTANT NOTE: If your store is still in development mode and is password protected, you are required to key in the password and repeat the above steps again.


This is how it looks like on the home page:

  1. Lastly, you can configure the text and color of the link to the Flash Sales page:


Once Sales Banner is configured you can proceed to save the Flash Sales. This will then create a new page within your store. The URL of the page is displayed at the top of the page, right above Flash Sales Period selection:


Step 6 – Remind Me Feature

You can setup the Remind Me feature in your Flash Sales so that customers can have the option to subscribe to the flash sale reminder service to receive alerts for upcoming promotions

To gain further insight into the ‘Remind Me’ functionality, we recommend watching the accompanying video:


To setup the Remind Me feature:

  1. First turn on the Remind Me toggle switch:
  1. Next, setup the following fields:
  • Sender email – This email address will be used as the sender for alert emails. Any responses from customers will be directed to this email address.
  • Sender name – The sender name will be displayed in the recipient’s inbox. Here’s an example on how it will look in Gmail:
  • Subject – The subject line provides a concise summary of the email’s content
  • Preview Text – Preview text is the short summary of the email’s content that appears next to or below the subject line in the recipient’s inbox.
  1. Following that, proceed to schedule when you would like the email alerts to be sent out:
  • Choose if you want to the emails to send out Before, At (the moment the flash sales starts) or After the flash sales starts.
  • Configure the specific days, hours, and minutes for scheduling the email delivery. Note that the maximum allowable time duration for sending emails before or after a flash sale starts is 29 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes
  1. Afterwards, you can proceed with customizing the appearance of the Remind Me button at the storefront according to your preferences:

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Remind Me button will exclusively appear for upcoming scheduled Flash Sales, and it will not be displayed for ongoing Flash Sales.

  • This will setup the text, button colors and the icons of the Remind Me button.
  • If you select this checkbox, the discounted price will be displayed. However, if left unselected, the price will be masked with a “?” symbol.
  1. Once you have configured the Remind Me button according to your preference, you can proceed to customize the design of the email notifications at the Email Notification settings:
  1. Once the notification is set up, you have the option to send a test email and preview how it will appear in an actual email.
  1. To conclude the setup process, configure the settings for the Remind Me pop-up that captures email addresses.


How to Display Flash Sales on your home page

  1. IMPORTANT NOTE: When the Flash Sales is properly configured and saved, a page will be AUTOMATICALLY CREATED. You DO NOT NEED to create the page manually. The URL is displayed here:
  1. Go to Online Store
  • Go to Navigation
  • Select Main Menu
  1. At the Main Menu, select Add menu item
  1. Then enter Name of the page and the Flash Sales URL Link by copying the URL displayed at the Flash Sales page:

Select Add and then complete the process by selecting Save. This will create the link to the Flash Sales page in the navigation bar in your store:

  1. To learn how to setup a Flash Sales banner to advertise the event on your page, you can follow the instructions listed here.