Scheduled Sales & Automatic Discounts for WooCommerce – Smart Cycle Discounts
Video Tutorial
Create a discount campaign in minutes and let it run on autopilot. Smart Cycle Discounts automatically applies your sale prices on schedule, detects conflicts before they cost you money, and tells you which promotions are actually working.
No more editing products one by one. No more forgetting to end a sale. No more wondering which discount is overriding which.
Pick your discount type (percentage off, BOGO, tiered pricing, and more), choose your products, set your schedule, and the plugin handles the rest — from activation to expiration, automatically.
A built-in setup wizard scans your store on first install, detects conflicting plugins, and walks you through creating your first campaign. Most merchants are up and running in under 3 minutes.
Key Features
- Set it and forget it — campaigns activate and expire on schedule, no manual work
- Percentage off, fixed amount, BOGO — all free, no upgrade required
- Tiered pricing, spend thresholds, bundles — available in Pro
- Recurring promotions — set up a «Weekend Sale» once, it repeats automatically
- Smart conflict detection — the plugin warns you before overlapping discounts cause problems
- Campaign Intelligence — tells you which promotions are working and what to do next
- 5-step wizard — create a campaign in minutes with guided setup and live preview
- Setup wizard — scans your store on first install, detects conflicts, gets you started fast
- Priority system — control exactly which discount wins when campaigns overlap
- Works with any theme — uses WooCommerce’s native sale price system
Perfect For
- Stores running seasonal sales (Black Friday, holiday, summer) that need to start and stop on time
- Stores with multiple promotions that need to avoid conflicts and overlapping discounts
- Stores that want to automate recurring deals (weekly specials, daily flash sales)
- B2B and wholesale stores using role-based or tiered quantity pricing
- Anyone tired of manually editing product prices every time a sale starts or ends
WooCommerce Discount Types and Dynamic Pricing Features
Free version includes:
- Percentage discounts
- Fixed amount discounts
- BOGO (Buy One Get One) deals
- Free shipping toggle inside campaign setup
- User role targeting (include/exclude roles)
- Location targeting by billing or shipping country
- Recurring campaign scheduling (continuous or instances)
Pro version adds:
- Tiered quantity discounts (volume pricing)
- Spend threshold discounts (cart-based conditions)
- Bundle deals (percentage, fixed, flat bundle pricing)
- Advanced discount-rule controls for deeper eligibility and margin protection
- Advanced subscription discount controls (when WooCommerce Subscriptions is active)
- Full analytics dashboard and advanced exports
Advanced WooCommerce Promotion Engine
Smart Cycle Discounts is built as a campaign system, not a one-off rule editor.
- Campaign lifecycle management (draft → scheduled → active → expired)
- Smart product targeting (all products, specific products, random products, categories, advanced filters)
- Timezone-aware scheduling automation
- Priority resolution when campaigns overlap
- Optimized caching and operations for larger WooCommerce catalogs
WooCommerce Promotion Conflict Detection
Before launch, Campaign Health and Campaign Intelligence evaluate operational risks including:
- Promotion conflicts and overlapping discounts
- Priority ties across concurrent campaigns
- Stock exposure and product readiness
- Schedule and timing consistency
- Discount integrity and risk indicators
This shifts teams from reactive troubleshooting to proactive promotion control.
WooCommerce Campaign Analytics and Intelligence
Smart Cycle Discounts includes campaign-level operational insight so you can evaluate:
- Which campaigns are driving meaningful revenue
- Which discounted products perform best
- Which promotions should be scaled, paused, or redesigned
The analytics dashboard helps stores optimize promotions instead of guessing which discounts work best.
Advanced analytics depth and exports are available in Pro, while base Campaign Intelligence guidance is included in the free version.
Popular WooCommerce Promotion Use Cases (BOGO, Bulk Discounts, Bundle Discounts, Sale Scheduler)
Smart Cycle Discounts can be used to run:
- WooCommerce BOGO campaigns
- WooCommerce bulk discount and tiered pricing campaigns
- WooCommerce scheduled sales and recurring promotions
- WooCommerce bundle discount campaigns and product packages
- WooCommerce flash sales and seasonal campaigns
- WooCommerce customer-segment discounts (roles and locations)
- WooCommerce promotion cycles with planned campaign scheduling
Why Store Owners Switch to Smart Cycle Discounts
Most discount plugins let you create rules. Smart Cycle Discounts lets you run promotions.
Common problems with other discount plugins:
- Discounts calculated on-the-fly slow your store to a crawl
- «Sale» filter plugins can’t find your discounted products
- Two discounts overlap and customers get double savings you didn’t intend
- The free version is empty — every useful feature is locked behind Pro
- Uninstalling leaves leftover sale tags and data in your database
How Smart Cycle Discounts is different:
- Uses WooCommerce’s native sale price system — your discounted products appear in «On Sale» filters, work with any theme, and show correct strikethrough pricing everywhere. No on-the-fly calculations that slow down product pages.
- Built-in conflict detection — Campaign Intelligence catches overlapping discounts, priority ties, and pricing risks before your customers do. You’ll know about problems before they cost you money.
- Genuinely useful free version — percentage off, fixed amount, BOGO, scheduling, recurring campaigns, role targeting, and location targeting are all included free. No bait-and-switch.
- Clean uninstall — deactivating or removing the plugin restores your original prices and removes all plugin data. No leftover sale tags or orphaned database entries.
- Performance-first architecture — active campaigns are cached, product terms are batch-loaded, and admin assets only load on plugin pages. Your store stays fast.
Useful Links
- Product page: Smart Cycle Discounts
- Free plugin listing: WordPress.org Plugin Page
- Documentation hub: Smart Cycle Discounts Docs
- Changelog: Version History
- Use cases: Campaign Use Cases
- Discount calculator: WooCommerce Discount Calculator
- Blog: WooCommerce Tips & Tutorials
- Support: Support Center
- Contact: Contact Webstepper
- Privacy policy: Privacy Policy
- Terms: Terms of Service
Get Started
- Install and activate the plugin
- The setup wizard scans your store and checks for conflicts
- Create your first campaign with the 5-step wizard
- Your discounts go live automatically — no product editing needed