Drop Prices for WooCommerce

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Drop Prices for WooCommerce is an excellent marketing tool that creates urgency by automatically changing (lowering or raising) a product’s price by a specified amount at set time intervals. Finale Sales Countdown Discount Timer for WooCommerce alternative.

With this WPGenie plugin, you can turn any sale into a live, Dutch-auction-style event, where the price starts high and drops until a buyer accepts it. You can also use it as a promotional tactic to reward early buyers with lower prices: the earlier they buy, the less they pay.

Drop price over time (Dutch auction)

With this option, the product price automatically drops over time, turning online shopping into a live event. Customers feel a sense of urgency because they need to decide when the price is low enough to buy. If they wait too long, however, someone else may buy the product first. The first shopper to click “Buy Now” wins, so waiting too long could mean missing out on the deal.

This is ideal for flash sales, clearance events, and limited-time promotions where you want to encourage shoppers to keep an eye on the sale and buy the product at the right moment.

Raise price over time

With this option, the product price automatically raises over time, encouraging hesitant customers to decide quickly whether to buy before the price increases.
This is ideal for promotions such as pre-orders, product launches, and early-bird offers, where sellers want to create a “the longer you wait, the more you pay” incentive and reward customers who buy early.

Features

• Per-product setup (no global settings)
• Change type: Drop or Raise
• Define the price change per interval
• Price change type: Fixed or Percentage – reduce (or increase) by a set amount (e.g. $5) or a percentage (e.g. 5%) each cycle
• End price: automatic changes stop when this price is reached
• Timeframe: set a start and end date/time for the per-product campaign
• Custom interval (in minutes) for price changes
• Option to show a countdown to the next price change on the single product page
• Dynamic price recalculation and countdown display for items in the cart and at checkout
• Option to reset the price and countdown timer after an order is placed
• Option to reset the price and countdown timer when the minimum or maximum price is reached (reset to the regular price and restart the timer from the beginning)

Use cases

• Clear out slow-moving, unique, seasonal, or end-of-line inventory
• Add urgency and a little suspense to high-interest products
• Give products that have slipped out of the spotlight a fresh reason to get noticed.
• Run engaging, event-style promotions (including a non-traditional take on Black Friday)
• Reward early buyers on pre-orders and launches by starting low and raising the price over time.

Support

You can contact us at our website wpgenie.org if you have problems or questions. Complete plugin documentation is here.