Create a Discount Code
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Flash Sale in One Task
/flash-sale Builds a flash sale end to end: sale collection, automatic discount with start and end, and an email draft, with one approval.
Add opens your Shopify admin with the skill prefilled; review it there and click Add. If nothing appears, use Copy and follow the steps below.
Personalize before you add
Values come from your store profile when set. Leave a field blank to keep the placeholder and fill it in Sidekick.
The skill
Suggested shortcut:/flash-sale Set up a flash sale on [PRODUCTS OR COLLECTION] at [PERCENT] off from [START] to [END], shop timezone. ## Steps 1. Resolve the products. Check stock for each; exclude anything out of stock or with fewer than 5 units and tell me. 2. Check active and scheduled discounts for overlaps with these products in the sale window. 3. Plan three things and show them together before doing anything: a collection named "Flash Sale" containing the products, hidden from navigation; an automatic percentage discount limited to that collection with the exact start and end; a Shopify Email campaign draft with a subject line, a one-paragraph body in the store's voice, the product grid and the end time. 4. Ask for one approval. Only after a clear yes, create the collection, then the discount, then the email draft. Report each step as done, with links. ## Output The plan as three short blocks, the stock exclusions, then "Create all three?"; after approval, three confirmations. Do not send the email; leave it as a draft. Do not change product prices directly; use the discount. If any step fails, stop and say which one.
How to add it to Sidekick
- Click Add to Sidekick above. Your Shopify admin opens with the skill ready to review. Click Add. Done.
- If the button does nothing in your store: click Copy skill, open Sidekick in your admin, type
/, choose Create new skill, name the shortcutflash-sale, paste the text as the instructions, and save. - To run it, type
/flash-salein Sidekick. Sidekick keeps up to 25 skills; manage yours from the skills menu.
What you get
A complete sale scaffold in one approval: collection, timed discount, and an email draft waiting in Shopify Email. This is the compound-task capability Shopify added to Sidekick in 2026, packaged.
When to use it
Weekend promotions, clearing a seasonal range, reacting to a slow week.
Variations
- “Also draft an announcement-bar line and a social caption”.
- “Use a code instead of an automatic discount” for influencer-driven sales.
Limits
Sidekick can’t schedule the email send; you do that in Shopify Email. Themes without a sale badge won’t show the strike-through price automatically.
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