Merchant problem report

Unified Sale Badge & Strikethrough Price Manager

Report created Jul 30, 2026

The problem to investigate

An app that ensures sale badges, compare-at pricing, and percentage-off messaging display consistently across collection pages, product pages, and theme variants. It would automatically adapt to theme behavior and merchant price rules so discounted items always look discounted to shoppers.

Merchants lose sale visibility when themes or market-specific pricing changes break compare-at price display, reducing conversion and creating confusion.

Evidence behind this report

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5
Source posts
4
Independent merchants
76/100
Evidence score

What merchants said

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“The reason it is not showing, is because I have customised the markets prices for the UK, as we had to increase the price. Upon doing so, the Savings % is no longer showing, naturally decreasing conversions.”

“Something has changed since then. I have many items set up with compare-at pricing. But now the sale flag is gone, and the compare-at price is no longer visible.”

Hypotheses to validate

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Possible solution

Provide a theme-aware app that injects consistent sale badges, strikethrough prices, and savings percentage labels on collection and product pages, with rules for multi-market pricing and automatic fallback styling when the theme stops rendering compare-at fields.

Who to interview

Shopify merchants using themes that inconsistently render compare-at pricing, especially stores with sales-heavy catalogs and international pricing setups.

Competitive assumptions to check

Some theme customization apps and product label apps exist, but many are theme-specific or focus on badges only; competitors may include Vitals, Boost Product Filter, and generic product label apps.

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