Run a sale

This tutorial walks you through running a temporary sale on your inventory. The sale drops your prices for a set duration, then Hoard automatically restores your normal pricing when the timer runs out.

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When to use this

• Nothing’s selling and you want to shake things up
• You want to push volume over a weekend
• You have stale stock sitting for weeks and want to move it
• You want to test whether a lower price point drives more orders

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Step 1: Open the pricing rules wizard

Go to Settings > Rules. Click Add Rule (or click Templates, next to Add Rule, and pick a chip from the “Sale templates” row). A sale template prefills the scope, the discount, and the duration. If you picked one, review those fields and go to Step 5 to save, or change them first using Steps 2 through 4.

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Step 2: Set your scope

Choose which cards the sale applies to. You can scope by:

• Game (Magic, Pokemon, etc.)
• Set (a specific expansion)
• Rarity (rares and above, bulk, etc.)
• Price range (cards over $5, cards under $10)
• Freestyle query (any search query your inventory supports, including quantity filters like qty>=3)

If you leave the scope empty, the sale applies to your entire inventory.

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Step 3: Set the discount

A new rule opens with the Pricing slider, which only offers five preset strategies. Click Advanced Pricing below the slider, then set Price change to a negative number. For example, use -10% for 10% off or -20% for 20% off. The discount applies to whatever your rules compute. If your rules price a card at $12, a 10% off sale makes it $10.80. If never-go-down is holding a card at $15, a 10% off sale makes it $13.50. Your pricing strategy stays intact. Choosing a duration does not change the adjustment for you. That way a rule does not rewrite an earlier step just because you made it temporary.

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Step 4: Set the duration

Duration is in the same Advanced Pricing block, below the pricing fields. Pick how long the sale should run:

• 24 hours
• 48 hours
• 3 days
• 1 week
• Custom (type any number of hours)

This is the only difference between a temporary sale and a permanent discount rule. The duration is what makes it temporary.

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Step 5: Save and confirm

Click Save Rule. The rule activates immediately and prices update on the next agent sync. Writing sale prices to TCGplayer requires a paid plan. Free accounts sync read-only: the rule is saved and previewed, but no price is sent to the marketplace. You’ll see your new rule in the rules list with an amber badge that reads Sale followed by the time remaining, such as “Sale 23h 10m”.

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What happens when it expires

When the countdown hits zero:

1. Hoard marks the rule as expired (within 5 minutes of the stated time)
2. A full reprice runs automatically against your permanent rules
3. Your prices update to whatever your current rules calculate (based on current market prices, not pre-sale prices)
4. The rule stays in your rules list with a grey Expired badge

You don’t need to do anything. No manual revert, no remembering to turn it off.

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Check your results

After the sale expires, the rule stays in the rules list with a grey Expired badge. If you turned on “Hide inactive,” uncheck it to see the rule. Click the chevron at the left of the rule row to expand it, which reveals the Edit and Delete buttons. Edit the rule to re-arm it with a new duration, or delete it. Clicking the rule’s query text also opens the edit form. The rules list does not report sale results. To count the orders you received during the sale, go to Sales > Orders and set the From and To dates to the sale window. On a narrow screen, tap Filters to reveal the date inputs. The Overview subtab has preset period pills only, not date inputs. Compare the result to your normal order rate to see if the sale worked.

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Tips

• Start small. A 5-10% discount for 48 hours is a safe first experiment. You can always run a bigger sale next time.
• Scope it down. Running a sale on your entire inventory is aggressive. Try scoping to stale stock (cards listed 60+ days with no movement) or a specific game/set first.
• Sales work with your rules, not against them. The sale discounts whatever your rules compute. If your Reserved List rule prices a card at $45, a 20% off sale makes it $36. Your rules set the strategy, the sale sets the promotion.
• Watch your floor. Sale prices never go below your $1 floor. You won’t accidentally give away inventory.
• No price drift. The same discount applies every reprice cycle. A 20% off sale gives you exactly 20% off every time, whether the sale lasts 24 hours or a week.
• Run it again. If a sale worked, create another one with the same parameters. There’s no “recurring sales” feature yet, but creating a new rule takes 30 seconds.