Discount Prime, a Shopify discount and pricing app, includes a Dropshipping Pricing campaign type built specifically for margin-based repricing, discounts and price updates calculated from your product cost, so you never accidentally sell below what you paid your supplier.
This guide is a reading path for dropshippers: which campaigns to use, how to protect your margin, and how to handle a catalog that changes constantly.
RECOMMENDED CAMPAIGNS FOR DROPSHIPPING
- Dropshipping Pricing: profit-safe discounts and repricing calculated from product cost
- Bulk Price Update: direct repricing across your catalog on a schedule
Best for: dropshipping stores where margin varies by supplier and product, and pricing needs to stay profit-safe automatically, not just percentage-off the listed price.
MARGIN MANAGEMENT
Dropshipping Pricing calculates from your product cost ("Cost per item" in Shopify), not the sale price, so the discount or reprice can never cut into your floor margin. Common scenarios in the in-app selector:
- Margin-only sale: a discount that only ever eats into margin, never the cost floor
- Reprice from cost: set price as cost + a fixed markup
- Clearance above cost: aggressive clearance pricing that still stays above cost
- Fixed markup refresh: re-apply a consistent markup rule across products
- Fixed off, margin-capped: a flat discount capped so it can't exceed your margin
- Flat sale with price floor: a sale with a hard price floor that protects your minimum price
HANDLING FREQUENT CATALOG CHANGES
Dropshipping catalogs change constantly, new products from suppliers, price updates, discontinued items. Discount Prime handles this with:
- Auto-update on product changes (Premium plan and above): when a product is added to (or removed from) your campaign's scope, the discount is applied or removed automatically, no manual re-save needed.
- Auto-update on excluded products: the same automatic behavior applies to your exclusion list.
- Conflict protection: if a repriced product is already covered by another active price-modifying campaign, it's auto-excluded rather than double-priced. See "Managing Campaign Conflicts".
MINI FAQ
Which plan do I need for Dropshipping Pricing?
Which plan do I need for Dropshipping Pricing?
Prime or above. Auto-update (for fast-changing catalogs) requires Premium or above. See "Plans & Pricing Overview".
Will this ever price a product below what I paid?
Will this ever price a product below what I paid?
No, Dropshipping Pricing campaigns calculate from your product cost, and scenarios like "Fixed off, margin-capped" and "Flat sale with price floor" exist specifically to prevent selling below cost.
What happens if a supplier price changes after I set up a campaign?
What happens if a supplier price changes after I set up a campaign?
Update the product's cost in Shopify, Discount Prime's repricing recalculates from the current cost the next time the campaign runs its pricing logic.