Future Prices

Future Prices allow you to schedule or delay a price change. You can schedule a date and time for price changes to become active or have all price changes not take effect until a nominated number of hours have passed. Using the Future Prices page, you can force price changes to take effect earlier.

Create a Future Price from the Future Prices Page

This is recommended if you only need to set a select amount of price changes as future prices and would still like standard price changes to apply immediately.

Select Menu
Select Utilities
Select Future Prices
Select + New
Search for a product by typing into the Search Items... field
Select the Scheduled Time field
Select or type the date and time this price change should apply
Enter an amount into the Quantity. The current Product Price and Cost is shown for the entered quantity
Enter the future price into the Price field
Optionally select a Price Set that should apply to
To finalise, select Add

Activate Future Prices for all Price Changes made on the Products Page

Navigate to Menu
Select Setup
Select General
Select Company
Scroll down or search for Hours until price changes become active
Enter the number of hours for the price to become active

You can view the Future Prices by navigating to the Future Prices page;

Select Menu
Select Utilities
Select Future Prices

Prices will automatically be applied once the set number of hours has been reached. You can also override the scheduled time from the Future Prices page for individual products by selecting Apply or activate all scheduled price changes by selecting Apply All Prices.

Applying a Future Price

Future prices can be applied from the product or order edit pages at any time. Products with a future price available will have a clock icon next to the price point it affects.

To apply a future price from the product edit page

Select Menu
Select Stock Management
Select Products
Select Edit for the product with a future price
Navigate to the Sell Cost & Prices section
Select the Clock icon next to the sell price
Select Apply Price
Select Save

Note: If you leave or refresh the page without saving, the future price will still be applied. The change can take up to 2 minutes to appear.

To apply a future price from the order edit page

Select Menu
Select Stock Management
Select Orders & Invoices
Select an order that contains the product with a future price
Select the product to expand the product details
Select the clock icon next to the sell price
Select Apply Price

Navigating the Future Prices Page

The future prices index page functions similarly to other index pages within Shopfront. It lists all future prices that have been created but have not been applied yet. This list can be filtered, and lines can be applied immediately or deleted.

Select Category	Filter future prices by selecting categories and type to search.
Select Start Date	Filter by a start date. Select to access the calendar and choose or type a date.
Select End Date	Limit the filter results with an end date. Select to access the calendar and choose or type a date.
Filter	The list will be filtered automatically once one of the above filter options is applied.
Apply All Prices	Immediately apply all future prices currently on the filtered list. The entered price change date will be disregarded.
Apply	Immediately apply selected future prices. The entered price change date will be disregarded.

Commonly Asked Questions

Will adding a Future Price for a product add a ticket to the everyday shelf tickets?

Products are added to the everyday shelf tickets when a change has been made to the name or pricing, so adding a future price won't cause the product to be added to the everyday shelf tickets, not until the price change comes into effect.