Turn sale prices off?

While I appreciate now you need it it seems ‘simple’, it’s not actually a common request. Sales are active while sale prices are input – simple as that. Extra options would just add confusion.

You can bulk edit products with an importer/plugin, or use custom function and filters on the sale_price retrieval functions to return blank strings instead of the values you input.

That would imply you believe that other ecommerce software works the same way, meaning major retailers manually input individual prices for every product and every variant whenever they have a big sale, and then manually go through each individual product and each individual variant to manually delete the prices so that the sale ends?

I don’t believe you think that way – so it boggles my mind that this feature was never added. I do think it is simple – all you need is a flag to check if you’ve enabled or disabled a site-wide sale. If it’s enabled, it uses the sale prices. If it’s disabled, it uses the regular prices.

I realise this is a free plugin and I appreciate the work you put into it, but this is one of the most fundemental retail functions and should have been in there from day one. It currently means sales are a tedious chore that can take hundreds of man hours just to enable/disable.

Tedious chore avoided in one line…

add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_sale_price', '__return_empty_string' );

Try that in theme functions.php

My sale prices only exist in variants, is that going to work? I’ll try it in the morning, thanks

That didn’t work for me

It should work for variants but may be cached. WC > System status > Tools, clean transients.

Thanks, I tried that but weirdly it seems to have had the opposite effect. It’s hidden the original price (the one which is striked out to show there’s a sale) and is only showing the sale price.

https://gist.github.com/mikejolley/3c90f32b9294442967c66be541ee88f7

Thanks! That works great

Thanks! That code removed the Sale prices…at least from the Front End. However, in the Back End the Sale prices are still setup, along with the Schedule.

Do I need to clear all those manually or have I missed a step?

Thanks,

W

+10 @waltark

Love the plugin it’s brilliant and appreciate all the hard work. But the mind does boggle a little at this omission as it is so fundamental to any retailer. At the scale we are at now (which is still small on the scale of things) it has become an expensive task for us to run sales because of the manual effort required. I would love to continue using WooCommerce as we scale but this would prevent us from being able to do that. Please take this as constructive feedback and not any negative reflection on your efforts, which have been epic.

If this was even provided in a paid plugin I would buy it in a heartbeat ??

I will try the workaround which works well by the looks of things.

Count me amongst the people who are incredulous that Woocommerce doesn’t contain a simple way to activate a sale

I would have expected a checkbox to turn the sale on & off, perhaps with a timed function like scheduling a post. Having to edit all the products to enable a sale runs absolutely counter to the ease with which Woocommerce works