Theme Pricing Guard + Sale Badge Fixer
The Opportunity
A plug-and-play theme app extension that normalizes price, compare-at, and variant price display across themes. Auto-adds sale badges and supports $0 variant ‘Contact us’ messaging.
"Themes often mis-handle variant pricing/compare-at prices, breaking sale flags and confusing shoppers; merchants also need ‘Contact us for pricing’ for $0 variants."
Market Validation
Detailed Analysis
Proposed Solution
Inject a lightweight SDK to standardize price rendering and sale logic, restore compare-at visibility, auto-badge sales, and swap $0 prices for a configurable CTA with link at variant level.
Target Audience
Merchants on older or customized themes (OS1 and OS2) with pricing display issues
Competitive Landscape
Sale & Discount Badges apps, Call for Price apps, Code auditing services
Implementation Notes
Theme App Extension with DOM hooks for price blocks; listen to variant change events; compute sale/compare-at rules; render unified components; per-template toggles; exclude collection tiles if desired; zero-price rule by product/variant metafield; compatibility tests for Venture/Minimog/Trade; no core theme overwrites.
Evidence from Merchants
Real quotes from Shopify community forums
"I’ve recently started using the compare-at price field to show items that are discounted. When I first used it about a month ago, it worked great. Both prices would be shown on my collections page, and the discounted items had a SALE flag showing on the image. I loved it."
"I’m trying to customize my Shopify store so that on the product pages, if a variant has a price of $0, it displays a message saying 'Contact us for pricing' instead of showing the $0 price."
"When you go to the Natural Beans page, you will see correct pricing for the default variant - 500g. If you change the variant to 1kg, the ‘compare at’ price at the top of the product page updates, but not the price itself."
Key Pain Points
Issues with displaying correct pricing for product variants
criticalMentioned by 3 merchants
Impact: Potential loss of sales due to incorrect pricing visibility
Market Metrics
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