Feature Request: Recurring Daily Discount Scheduling

Status: Open
Priority: Medium-High
Category: Campaign Scheduling / Time-based Automation
Requested by: Nishant

Problem Statement

Users want to run time-based, recurring hourly discounts every day (e.g., 12% off at 12pm, 1% off at 1pm, 4% off at 4pm, etc.) but the current Discounty workflow requires creating separate campaigns for each day.

For a 2-month continuous promotion with hourly variations, users would need to manually create 60+ campaigns (24 hours × ~60 days), which is:

• Extremely tedious

• Error-prone (easy to miss time gaps or create overlaps)

• Not scalable for merchants wanting dynamic, recurring promotions

Current Workaround (Broken UX)

1. Create Campaign 1: "12% off" (Start: today 12:00, End: today 12:58)

2. Create Campaign 2: "12% off" (Start: tomorrow 12:00, End: tomorrow 12:58)

3. Create Campaign 3: "12% off" (Start: day after 12:00, End: day after 12:58)

4. Repeat 60+ times for each time slot and each day

Result: Hundreds of campaigns cluttering the dashboard, manual maintenance required.

Desired Solution

Add recurring/repeating schedule support to campaign scheduling, allowing merchants to:

Option A: Weekly/Daily Recurrence Pattern

Campaign: "Hourly Flash Discounts" ├─ 12:00–12:58: 12% off (repeats daily) ├─ 13:00–13:58: 1% off (repeats daily) ├─ 16:00–16:58: 4% off (repeats daily) └─ Recurrence: Daily, from [Start date] to [End date] 

Option B: Time-slot Templates with Daily Activation

Campaign Template: "Daily Hour-by-hour Discounts" ├─ Slot 1: 12:00–12:58 → 12% (auto-repeats) ├─ Slot 2: 13:00–13:58 → 1% (auto-repeats) ├─ Slot 3: 16:00–16:58 → 4% (auto-repeats) └─ Active until: [Date], timezone: [User's timezone] 

Benefits

1. Reduces Campaign Clutter: One campaign with recurring rules instead of 60+ individual campaigns

2. Error Prevention: No manual date/time entry errors or overlapping campaigns

3. Scalability: Merchants can easily run 2-month (or longer) promotions without friction

4. Better Dashboard UX: Cleaner campaign list with grouped time-based discounts

5. Timezone-Aware: Automatically handles timezone logic without user confusion

Use Cases

• Daily Happy Hour Discounts: Different discounts every hour (12pm, 1pm, 2pm, etc.)

• Time-zone Aware Global Promotions: Same promotion running at the same local time across multiple regions

• Seasonal Hourly Sales: Running for weeks/months without manual daily setup

• Weekend vs. Weekday Pricing: Different schedules for Mon–Fri vs. Sat–Sun

Technical Considerations

1. Recurrence Rules: Implement a recurrence pattern (daily, weekly, on specific days, date range)

2. Timezone Handling: Ensure times are tied to merchant's store timezone, not user's device

3. Campaign Limits: May need to adjust UI/backend limits if merchants create campaigns with many recurring slots

4. Conflict Detection: Warn if overlapping time slots exist within the same day

5. API Support: Expose recurrence rules in the API for future integrations

Campaign Types Affected

This feature should work with all Discounty campaign types:

• Bulk Price Editor (primary use case from this request)

• Quantity Discounts

• Cart Goals

• BXGY / Buy X Get Y

• Advanced Discount Codes

• Shipping Discounts

Implementation Effort

• Frontend: Add recurrence UI to campaign scheduler (low-medium)

• Backend: Expand campaign schema to support recurrence rules (medium)

• Testing: Timezone edge cases, overlapping schedules, long-term recurrence (medium)

Related Issues / Context

Customer Feedback: Nishant raised this when trying to set up daily 4% discounts that repeat every day for 2 months. Current solution (creating 60+ campaigns) is unscalable.

Workaround Limitations:

• Current gap-based scheduling (1-2 min between campaigns) works but only for manual, day-by-day setup

• No way to set a campaign as "active every day at X time until Y date"

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] User can create a Bulk Price Editor campaign with recurring daily schedule

• [ ] Campaign activates/deactivates automatically at the correct time every day

• [ ] User can set an end date after which recurrence stops

• [ ] Campaign duration extends beyond a single day without manual daily re-creation

• [ ] Dashboard clearly shows which campaigns are recurring vs. one-time

• [ ] Timezone is correctly applied (user's store timezone, not device timezone)

• [ ] No overlapping time slots within the same daily recurrence