# Automatic price drops

How to create a rule that lowers your listings' price every so often, how far it goes, which marketplaces it works on and what pausing or deleting it does.

_Updated: 2026-11-03 · Source: https://ruit.es/en/docs/automatic-price-drops/_

A price drop rule lowers the price of your listings little by little: every so many days, by a
percentage, down to a maximum discount. It helps you shift what has gone a while without selling,
without having to remember each listing.

The rules are in **Settings → Marketplaces**, on **General**, at the end of **Publishing**, under
**Automatic price drops**. The owner and the admins create and change them; the rest of the team can
only see them.

## Where they work

The rules lower the price on **Wallapop**, **Vinted**, **PrestaShop** and **IberLibro**. On the other
marketplaces they do not work yet, even if they show up when you choose one.

They change the price of the listing you already have published, without publishing it again. On
Wallapop and Vinted the extension does it, so it has to be connected. Your product's price in RUIT
does not change: only the listing's.

## Create a rule

1. Press **New rule**.

2. Give it a **Name**, for example "Summer markdowns".

3. Choose how many days apart it drops in **Lower every**, how much it drops each time in
   **Reduce by** and how far in **Max. discount**. The defaults are 10 days, 5% and 30%.

4. Choose the **Rounding**, which is explained further down.

5. In **Marketplace**, leave **All marketplaces** or choose one.

6. If you only want to mark down the listings that have been published for a while, fill in
   **Min. days listed**.

7. Leave **Active** on and press **Save**.

While you fill it in, the window sums up in one sentence how the price will drop.

_Screenshot: The New pricing rule window with the Name, Lower every, Reduce by and Max. discount fields, the Rounding, the Marketplace and the Active switch, and the Cancel and Save buttons._

A new rule with the default values: every 10 days, 5%, down to 30%.

## How the price drops

When a rule starts applying to a listing, it takes the listing's price at that moment as the
starting point. The first step comes after the number of days you have set, and each following step
the same number of days after the one before. Each step takes the percentage off the price the
listing has at that moment, so the steps get slightly smaller as they go. The maximum discount is
counted on the starting price, and the rule stops when it reaches it.

A €20 listing with a rule of every 10 days, 5% and a maximum discount of 30%:

| Day | Price |
| --- | --- |
| 0 | €20.00 |
| 10 | €19.00 |
| 20 | €18.05 |
| 30 | €17.15 |
| 40 | €16.29 |
| 50 | €15.48 |
| 60 | €14.71 |
| 70 | €14.00, the maximum: the rule stops |

If you change a listing's price by hand, the rule starts from that new price. The price never goes
below the minimum the marketplace accepts, which on Vinted is €1. RUIT checks the rules every hour
and lets you know when it has lowered a price or something has failed.

### Rounding

| Option | What it does with each step's price |
| --- | --- |
| **No rounding** | Leaves it with its cents |
| **Whole number** | Takes it to the nearest euro |
| **Nearest 0.10** | Takes it to the nearest ten cents |
| **To .99** | Takes it to the nearest euro and takes one cent off: €12.40 becomes €11.99 and €12.60 becomes €12.99 |

If the rounding would not lower the price, the price stays as it was.

## Which listings it applies to

- Only listings that are for sale: it does not touch reserved, hidden or sold ones.
- Each listing follows a single rule, the first one that picks it up.
- **Min. days listed** counts from when the listing exists in RUIT: for imported ones, from the
  import. When you renew a listing, the new one starts from zero.
- It skips the listings of accounts that cannot publish, for example with selling restricted on
  Vinted or paused by your plan, and on Wallapop and Vinted, while the extension is disconnected.
  When they are fine again, the rule carries on with them. If an active rule affects an account with
  selling restricted, **General** warns you above the list.
- If a listing fails three times in a row, it drops out of the rule. If you want it back, write to us
  through the chat.

## Pause, change or delete a rule

- Each rule's switch pauses it without losing where it had got to.
- Each rule's **⋯** menu has **Edit** and **Delete**.
- Pausing or deleting a rule does not restore the prices: whatever has already dropped stays that
  way.
- If your plan does not include price drops, the rule shows a padlock and is not applied. Tapping the
  padlock opens the plans window; with a plan that includes them, the rule carries on where it was.

- [Your marketplace settings](https://ruit.es/en/docs/your-marketplace-settings/)
- [Renew a listing](https://ruit.es/en/docs/renew-a-listing/)
- [RUIT subscription plans](https://ruit.es/en/docs/ruit-subscription-plans/)