Price Drops

Price Drops lowers the price of listings you’ve opted in, on a schedule you set per item. It turns slow-moving stock over without you having to remember to revisit it, and it never goes below the floor you choose.

Price Drops works on Depop and Vinted listings; eBay support is coming.

How the maths works

Drops are cumulative, not compounding. Cycle N targets:

new_price = original_price × (1 − N × percent / 100)

So at 10% per cycle, an item priced at £30 drops:

• Cycle 1: £30 → £27 (10% off original)
• Cycle 2: £27 → £24 (20% off original)
• Cycle 3: £24 → £21 (30% off original)
• ...

The percentage is always “N% of the original price”, never of the current price. That means the per-cycle pound amount stays constant rather than shrinking each round. The original price is the one the listing had when its first drop happened.

If a drop would take the price below the item’s floor price, the price is set to the floor instead. Once an item sits at its floor, drops stop. Without a floor, drops stop when the cumulative percentage reaches 100%.

Which listings you can track

Price Drops works from the listings you have saved to the cloud. Only active, cloud-saved listings appear in the tab, so save a listing to the cloud in My Listings first if it’s missing. See Cloud sync.

Setting it up

In the Price Drops tab:

1. Under Available listings, tick the listings you want and click Add selected, or click Add on a single row. The search box, marketplace filter and age filter help you find stale items. Added listings move to Tracked listings.
2. Each tracked listing has its own rule, written as a sentence you edit in place: Drop (a percentage) every (a number of) days down to (a floor price) counting from Listing age or Now.
   • The percentage is 1 to 90 per cycle.
   • The days between drops is 1 to 180. It is also how old the listing must be (counted from the start point) before the first drop.
   • The floor is optional. Leave it empty for no floor.
   • Listing age counts from when the listing was created, so an item older than its interval is due straight away. Now counts from the moment you click it, so the first drop waits a full interval.
3. Switch on Run price drops at the top of the tab, and pick how often SaleLinx checks for due drops under Check every: 12h, 24h (1 day), 48h (2 days), 3 days, 7 days or 14 days. The default is 24h.

Listings you add start at 15% every 3 days, with a floor at half the current price, counting from the listing’s age. Change any of these before the next check if they don’t suit you.

To change several items at once, tick them in Tracked listings and click Bulk edit. Fill in only the fields you want to change (discount, how often, floor price, start from) and click Apply; anything left blank stays as it is on each item.

The drop schedule

Under each tracked listing, a row of price steps shows what will happen: the current price (Now), then each upcoming drop with its date, ending at floor when the floor is what stops it. It shows up to 12 drops. Above it, the listing’s line shows its price, how many days it has been active, how many drops have happened so far, and when the next one is due.

When drops run

Once Run price drops is on, SaleLinx checks your tracked listings at the interval you picked; the first check comes one interval after you switch it on. Next run shows when the next check is, and Run now starts one straight away.

Each check uses the prices and statuses SaleLinx last synced from your shop, rather than asking the marketplace again. For each tracked listing it:

• Skips the listing if it has sold or is no longer active.
• Skips it if its interval hasn’t passed since the last drop (or, for a listing that hasn’t dropped yet, since its start point).
• Skips it if it is already at its floor.
• Skips a Depop listing that is in a Depop sale, because changing the price would end the sale.
• Otherwise, sets the new price on the marketplace.

At most one drop per item per run. An item that’s been on for 60 days with a 14-day interval drops once on the next run. It doesn’t catch up by firing 4 drops back-to-back.

A drop always sets a price lower than the one SaleLinx last synced. If you lower a price by hand on the marketplace, let SaleLinx sync your listings (open the panel on Depop or Vinted) before the next check, so a drop is never worked out from the old, higher price.

Keep a Depop or Vinted tab open for the listings you track, because SaleLinx changes prices through those tabs. If another SaleLinx job is running when a check is due, it waits and tries again a few minutes later.

History

Click History to open Recent drops, a log of the last 500 price changes SaleLinx made or tried to make: which listing, which marketplace, the price before and after, the percentage, and when. A change that failed (for example because the listing is gone) is marked with the error.

Clear history empties the log without affecting tracked items.

Stopping markdowns on an item

Click the × on a tracked listing (Stop tracking), or tick several and click Remove selected. The listing goes back to Available listings and no further drops happen. Drops already applied stay in place; the listing just stops moving. If you add it again later, it starts a fresh schedule from its price at that time.

To stop everything at once, switch off Run price drops.

Plan and access

Price Drops is Business only. Pro doesn’t include it.

Next steps

• Dead Stock - find which listings are candidates for markdowns.
• Cloud sync - save the listings you want to track to the cloud.
• Refresh - the lighter-touch alternative for items where you don’t want to drop the price.