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Sale Manager

Overview

Sale Manager runs scheduled discount campaigns. A campaign is a named set of products with a discount and an optional date range; activating it writes real WooCommerce sale prices (and sale-date windows) onto those products, and deactivating it removes them again. Campaigns move through their own lifecycle — draft, scheduled, active, ended and expired — so a sale can be set up in advance and start and stop on its own.

The campaign list

The tab opens on a list of your campaigns, with a count in the heading, a Sort control (by name, status, date created or product count) and a Search campaigns box. + New Sale opens the campaign editor.

Each campaign shows as a row, colour-coded down its left edge by status, with its name and status badge, the sale dates, a live countdown, the product count, and its actions.

Campaign rows

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Campaign	Status	Sale dates	Timing	Products
Winter Knitwear Sale	Active	1 Dec 2026 → 31 Jan 2027	26d 11h left	42 products	EditDeactivateDelete
Black Friday T-Shirts	Scheduled	27 Nov 2026 → 30 Nov 2026	Starts in 11d	18 products	EditDeactivateDelete
Summer Clearance	Draft	Indefinite	Not running	8 products	EditActivateDelete

Campaign statuses

Status	Meaning
Draft amber	Set up but not applied. No sale prices are live.
Scheduled blue	Activated with a start date in the future. Prices apply automatically when the start date arrives.
Active green	Live now — the discounted prices are on the products.
Ended grey	An active campaign whose end date has passed; its sale prices have been removed.
Expired red	A scheduled campaign whose entire window passed before it ever activated.

Actions on a campaign

Action	Shown for	Effect
Edit	Any campaign	Opens the editor to change its name, dates, discount and products.
Activate	Draft, Ended, Expired	Applies the campaign — immediately, or scheduled if the start date is in the future.
Deactivate	Active, Scheduled	Removes the sale prices from all the campaign's products and returns it to Draft.
Delete	Any campaign	Deletes the campaign (clearing its sale prices first if it was active or scheduled).

Automatic transitions

The lifecycle advances on its own — an active campaign whose end date has passed is ended and its prices cleared; a scheduled campaign activates once its start date arrives, or expires if its whole window slipped by unactivated. These checks run periodically and also whenever the list is loaded.

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Campaigns drive real sale pricesActivating a campaign sets each product's WooCommerce sale price and sale-date window; deactivating, ending or deleting it clears them. The discounted prices are normal WooCommerce sale prices, so the storefront, cart and reports treat them exactly as they would any sale.