You can create a sale to offer your paid apps at a discounted price. When users view your app on the Play Store, they'll see both the sale price and the original price – known as strikethrough pricing.
Set up a sale
- Open Play Console and go to the App pricing page (Monetize with Play > Products > App pricing).
- Select the Sales tab.
- Click Create sale.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to name your sale, set up the start and end date. The sale name will only be seen within Play Console and won't be visible to users.
- Select which countries/regions will be targeted within the sale. By default, all available locations will be selected and the sale will be offered globally. If needed, use the checkboxes to select specific countries where you want to offer the sale.
- Click Edit sale price.
- To offer your app for a discounted price: Enter your sale price (in the default currency). We'll use the price that you enter as the base for calculating market-specific prices.
- Note: You can enter 0 if you want to temporarily offer your app as a $0 sale, which will automatically set all country/region prices to 0 as well. You can find more information about $0 sales below.
- Click Save. Your sale will begin according to the start date that you entered during step 4.
Guidelines and requirements
These guidelines and requirements describe how sales for paid apps work within Play Console. Please consult with your legal team to ensure features of the promotion, such as the promotion timing, is compliant with applicable local consumer protection laws.
- Currently, sales can be created only for paid apps (not subscriptions or in-app products).
- Your app's sales price must represent at least a 30% discount on the full price (in every impacted country). With the exception of a $0 sale, all sale prices must adhere to the accepted price ranges.
- To create or edit a sale, your app must be published.
Important for $0 sales: A $0 sale is temporary and is not the same as permanently offering your app for free. Creating a $0 sale does not impact your ability to charge for the app in the future. If you create a $0 sale, your app won't be featured on any paid Top Charts during the time the sale is live.
$0 sales don't count as purchases. As a result, the number of buyers in your reports may drop during a sale. The following reports will be impacted:
- Finance Overview page: Buyers table will drop to 0.
- Finance Buyers report: You'll see a shift in all buyers, repeat buyers, and returning buyers.
- User Acquisition report: You'll see a shift in Buyers and Repeat Buyers.
- For each app, there must be 30 days between the end date of one sale and the start date of another sale. You can change the base price of an app at any time.
- Sales can be live from one day (minimum length) up to eight days (maximum length).
Sales and pricing templates
Since each sale is created per app, sales won't be supported by pricing templates.
If you've created a sale for an app that's part of a template, you'll need to stop the sale or wait until the sale completes before you can make any changes to the template.
View and update sales
In Play Console, you can access live, upcoming, and past sales.
- Open Play Console and go to the App pricing page (Monetize with Play > Products > App pricing).
- Select the Sales tab.
- Next to the sale you want to update, select Edit sale.
- Update the sale name: You can update the sale name at any time. Remember that the sale name will only be seen within Play Console and won't be visible to users.
- Update the start date or price: You can update the start date or price on any upcoming sales. If a sale has already begun, the start date and price can no longer be changed.
- End or resume a sale: In the top right corner of a live sale, select Stop or Resume.
- Open Play Console and go to the App pricing page (Monetize with Play > Products > App pricing).
- Select the Sales tab. If any past sales exist for your app, they'll be listed here.