Note: currently sale price is supported only in Spanish market.

Overview

We used to offer a discount to buyer by store promotions, but sometimes it’s not so convenient.

• It’s not easy to set the accurate discount price because store promotions are based on discount rate. For example, the original price is $40, you want to set the discount price to $29.99, you can only set the discount rate to either 25% ($30) or 26%($29.6), which is not accurate to $29.99.
• The store promotion has its start time and end time. The begin time cannot be the time you create the promotion, it can only be several hours later. And you need to extend its end time or crate a store promotion before it expires.
• Buyers will see the end time of the promotion changing when you change the end time, which may impact their trust to the promotions.

To solve those problems, now we support setting sale price directly on the product.

• It’s accurate discount price instead of discount rate.
• It’s doesn’t have start time and end time so no need to extend the end time.
• Buyers will not see the end time.

You can directly set sale price when posting or editing products (through API or seller backend of AliExpress).

After the sale price is set, the product page looks like below

Business Logic

The pricing logic when having multiple discount prices

• Promotion
  • Display the basic price and sale price (if having) when there is no promotion
  • Display the basic price and promotion price (if having) when there is promotion
• Bulk discount
  • Additional discount on sale price if having both
• Product package
  • The final price will be the lower one between sale price and price in product package.

Constrains with promotions

• Promotion will block the editing of product’s sale price.
• If there is sale price for a product, the discount price of a promotion should be lower than the sale price.

APIs Instruction for Ocean Platform (old platform)

Below APIs are related with sale price.

• Post product using native language: alibaba.product.postMultilanguageAeProduct, the related parameter is aeopAeProductSKUs -> skuDiscountPrice.
• Post product using English: api.postAeProduct, the related parameter is aeopAeProductSKUs -> skuDiscountPrice.
• Edit product: api.editAeProduct, the related parameter is aeopAeProductSKUs -> skuDiscountPrice.
• Edit product SKUs: api.editProductCidAttIdSku, the related parameter is productSkus -> skuDiscountPrice.

Let’s take the parameter in alibaba.product.postMultilanguageAeProduct as an example

• aeopAeProductSKUs is a parameter for posting a product.
• skuDiscountPrice is a field for the objects inside aeopAeProductSKUs.

The description for this parameter is in Chinese, let me explain it here. skuDiscountPrice is the discount price for the SKU. Its value range is from 0.01 to 100000.

APIs Instruction for TOP Platform (new platform)

Below APIs are related with sale price.

• Post product using native language: aliexpress.postproduct.redefining.postmultilanguageaeproduct, the related parameter is aeop_ae_product_s_k_us -> sku_discount_price
• Post product using English: aliexpress.postproduct.redefining.postaeproduct, the related parameter is aeop_ae_product_s_k_us -> sku_discount_price
• Edit product: aliexpress.postproduct.redefining.editaeproduct, the related parameter is aeop_ae_product_s_k_us -> sku_discount_price
• Edit product SKUs: aliexpress.postproduct.redefining.editproductcidattidsku, the related parameter is product_skus -> sku_discount_price

Let’s take the parameter in aliexpress.postproduct.redefining.postmultilanguageaeproduct as an example

• aeop_ae_product_s_k_us is a parameter for posting a product.
• sku_discount_price is a field for the objects inside aeop_ae_product_s_k_us.

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