WooCommerce Schedule Sale Price – Not working
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WooCommerce Schedule Sale
Is anyone having issues with this? This is the second time someone brought this to my attention. It seems that when you are scheduling a product to go on sale using the schedule in the product page, it’s not putting the product on sale when the day arrives; it seems to make the system put the “Sale” badge or “% off” badge on the product, strikes out the original price, but display the sale price as the original one still.
For example: We set the sale of the product to go on sale today, Dec 1st 2023 2 days ago. Today came, the product went on “sale” but isn’t the sale price isn’t there. However, when you switch the date to the previous date, so Nov 30th 2023, save the product, then it works. Anyone come in contact with this bug?
I’ve checked the WP CRON for wc schedule sale… it runs. But for some reason, it doesn’t want to replace the original price with the sale price that was set.
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Agree @bssa.
Please fix this Bug. This should not be happening especially with the holiday season in full swing when people want to set up sales.
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- This reply was modified 11 months, 4 weeks ago by dr3wsephs.
Thank you @csa3a07 for coming forward .
As per my discussion here: Sales price not showing | www.remarpro.com, using WooCommerce version 8.0 fixes this issue. So, somewhere between 8.1 and 8.3, this bug lives. The bug being the sale day comes, the system puts the product on sale, shows the sale badge, along with strikes out the original price… but, displays the original price again as the sale price. This, shouldn’t be happening.
I’ve tested the latest version of Woo in my vanilla staging site and the issue is there… and there are no other plugins that are conflicting with Woo.
In version 8.0 of Woo, the bug is not there. When I did the rollback to this version, the day of the sale came and the system put the product on sale with the sale badge, crossed out the original price… and bam: sale price is displayed correctly. The sale price displays and the original price is crossed out.- This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by dr3wsephs.
Hi @dr3wsephs
Thanks for reaching out!
I understand that you are experiencing issues regarding the scheduled sale price of your products wherein when the scheduled date comes, regular price is being striked, but it still displays the regular price instead of the sale price, correct?
I replicated the scenario on my personal site, however, I am unable to reproduce the issue as you can see below:
Product edit page:
Single products page:
My personal site is running on WooCommerce version
8.2.1
if it helps.I’d like to understand your site properly. Please share with us the necessary information below for us to investigate the issue further:
- System Status Report which you can find via
WooCommerce > Status > Get system report > Copy for support
. - Fatal error logs (if any) under WooCommerce > Status > Logs.
You could copy and paste your reply here or paste it via https://gist.github.com/ and send the link here.
Once we have more information, we’ll be able to assist you further.
Hi @xue28. I did some further Testing.
I put one staging site with WooCommerce at version 8.2.1 and another staging site at WooCommerce 8.3.1. They’re called 1 and 2 respectively for the purposes of screenshots. Both sites are using Storefront theme and have only WooCommerce active; just so we can actually prove that no other plugins are active that may conflict.
Staging 1
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Here I am showing you that my staging one (1) site is using the latest Woo version and the bug is present. Status Report: https://gist.github.com/Dr3wsephs/28567291cc8ef869284b815193a23b49
Staging 2Screenshot by Lightshot (prnt.sc)
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Here I am showing you that my staging two (2) site is using the WooCommerce version 8.2.1. Status Report: gist:09bc09a0b39a17ff10e51431e93a63a3 (github.com)So, from the looks of it, 8.2.1 is fine, 8.3.1 is not.
Same problem like u. We checked the cron job for the sale prices – they are fine…
We have the same issue as @dr3wsephs described. Rollback to Woocommerce 8.2.1 fixed the problem.
We ran into the same issue (currently running 8.4.0) when we noticed scheduled sale products were not showing up on the sale page well after the schedule had passed ([sale_products] shortcode).
Looking at the product object, we can see the issue is with the price value. Here’s an example showing the bug with a simple product with past scheduled sale price:
WC_Product_Simple Object ( ... [price] => 1000 [regular_price] => 1000 [sale_price] => 700 [date_on_sale_from] => WC_DateTime Object ( [utc_offset:protected] => 0 [date] => 2023-12-19 00:00:00.000000 [timezone_type] => 3 [timezone] => Asia/Tokyo ) [date_on_sale_to] => ... )
The price has not been updated with the sale_price value although it is well past the scheduled time. Other posts alluded to an issue with the woocommerce_scheduled_sales cron event but we confirmed the event had run on time and we manually ran the event as well.
Diving into the DB, for the above product .._wc_product_meta_lookup table, the onsale boolean is false.
Curiously, variable products do show correct schedule sale prices although they still suffer the same issue with not showing on our sales page and as with simple products, the .._wc_product_meta_lookup table onsale boolean is also false.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by kylebarrow.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by kylebarrow.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by kylebarrow.
Hey everyone.
Thank you all for reporting the issue.
This is a bug which we are currently working on.
We are doing our best to fix it as soon as possible.
We can’t specify a date when the bug will be fixed, it is still in progress. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you, and we thank you for your patience.
If anyone has any further questions, please let us know.
Have a wonderful day!
I ran into this issue today with the start of my sale as well. Though it has been mentioned above that the bug is known to the dev team, I thought I’d pop in to share a simple work-around that seems to be working for me.
Running on Woocommerce 8.4.0 (latest):
1. The sale should already be running. This probably wont make a difference if it hasn’t started yet.
2. Delete the price from the sale price field. Leave the sale dates as they are. Click Update to publish the page.
3. Add the discount price back to the sale price field. Click Update to publish the page.For me, this forced the discount price to take effect how it would normally. May be worth a shot before rolling back.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by rotornut44.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by rotornut44.
Hey @rotornut44,
Thanks for sharing a workaround, this may be very helpful for others who are experiencing this issue and prefer to not rollback to a previous version while our dev’s look into this ??
Cheers!
When we were looking at a fix for products where the sale had already started, we found removing the scheduled sale start date then updating fixed the issue (sale price shown, shows on sale page) but we had well over 200 products affected by this bug (many with variations) so instead made a quick and dirty function that we could access via an ‘AJAX’ call to fix:
function fix_past_sales() { $is_admin = false; // Only allow shop admins to run this if (is_user_logged_in()) { $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $current_user_roles = $current_user->roles; $admin_roles = array('administrator', 'editor', 'shop_manager'); foreach ($current_user_roles as $user_role) { if (in_array($user_role, $admin_roles, true)) { $is_admin = true; break; } }; } if (!$is_admin) { echo 'Invalid user'; return; } global $wpdb; $now = new DateTime(); // Get products with a sale start in the past $results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM {$wpdb->prefix}postmeta WHERE meta_key='_sale_price_dates_from' AND meta_value < {$now->getTimestamp()}", OBJECT); echo '<pre>'; foreach($results as $result) { $product = wc_get_product($result->post_id); if ($product) { $product_name = $product->get_name(); $product_sale_start = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $result->meta_value); // Remove the sale start $product->set_date_on_sale_from(''); $product->save(); echo "Removed sale start date $product_sale_start from $product_name\n"; } } echo '</pre>'; } add_action('wc_ajax_fix_past_sales', 'fix_past_sales');
When placed in your site theme functions.php this can be triggered by https://yoursitedomain.com/?wc-ajax=fix_past_sales
Worked for us but was a hot fix with limited QA and so comes with the usual use at own risk warning.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by kylebarrow.
- This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by kylebarrow.
We were encountering this issue with WC 8.4.0. Even running cron manually wasn’t updating the prices.
Updated to 8.5.2, manually triggered the cron event via Crontrol plugin and the sale prices updated.
Appears to be fixed in 8.5.2.
- This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by websavers.
We have encountered this issue in woocommerce 8.8.2. No way to fix it until now.
Hey, @sannadigital!
The issue mentioned on this thread was already merged on a past version, so we need to investigate what is going on on your website.
Per WordPress forum guidelines, would you mind opening up a new thread for this so that we can keep things organized and offer more personalized support for you?
We’ll be happy to help you out with this over there!
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