How Rockit Discounts & Sales Works: A Quick Overview

Rockit Discounts & Sales helps you run store-wide or targeted sales by editing product prices directly in Shopify, not by applying checkout-only discounts.

This means your discounts are visible immediately on product pages, collections, and search results, exactly where customers expect to see them.

Below is a quick overview of how the app works behind the scenes.

What Rockit Discounts & Sales Does

Rockit is a price editor.

When you activate a sale, the app:

• Updates the product variant price
• Stores the original price in the compare-at price
• Saves the original values so they can be restored later

Most Shopify themes automatically show:

• Crossed-out prices
• Sale badges whenever a compare-at price exists.

👉 Rockit does not add visual elements itself; your theme handles that.

How a Sale Is Activated

When you publish a sale, Rockit runs three steps:

1️⃣ Variant Filtering

Shopify prices live on variants, not products.

Rockit:

• Finds all variants that match your sale filters
• Skips variants already in another active sale (no stacking)
• Skips free variants (price = 0.00)

The original prices are saved internally at this step.

2️⃣ Price Update

Rockit applies the discounted prices and:

• Sets the new price

  Updates or sets the compare-at price (based on your strategy)

  Adds a sale metafield to track:

  • Sale ID
  • End date
  • Linked timer (if used)

3️⃣ Tag Updates (Optional)

If enabled, Rockit:

• Adds sale tags when the sale starts
• Removes them when the sale ends

What Happens When a Sale Ends

When creating a sale, you choose what happens at the end:

• Restore original price and compare-at price, or
• Move compare-at price into price and clear compare-at (default)

Rockit restores prices using the data saved when the sale was activated.

Important Behavior to Understand

Rockit Does Not Monitor Changes Continuously

After activation, Rockit does not watch for:

• New products
• Collection updates
• Product edits
• External price changes

If your catalog changes, use Reactivate Sale to rescan and update eligible products — without interrupting live discounts.

Multi-Market Pricing

Rockit updates prices in the primary market.

• Shopify handles currency conversion automatically
• Fixed prices in other markets will override Rockit discounts

Applying discounts to specific markets is not supported at this time.

Final Takeaway

Rockit Discounts & Sales works by:

• Editing real product prices
• Making discounts visible across the storefront
• Avoiding discount stacking
• Giving you full control over how prices are restored

Once you understand that Rockit edits prices once per activation, most sale behavior becomes predictable and easy to manage.